An almost but not quite complete E C Ryder/J Edward Oliver episode guide
Almost every edition of the JEO strip began with a punning title. At the bottom was a Next week pun. Reading these gives an idea of the storyline.
| Ep | Title | Next week | Special comment |
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The early years: Disc and Music Echo |
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| 1 | Will E C Ryder summon a Demon? Will he be thrown out on the street? Will Shakespeare? | First episode | |
| 2 | Can E C Ryder discover WHERE IT'S AT? Can Elf Garnett grant his wish? Can did camera? | ||
| 3 | More thrills! More excitement! More haste, less speed! | ||
| 4 | Will E C Ryder paint his hair black and join the cast of 'Paint Your Wig On'? | ||
| 5 | Will Ronan O' Really's pirate station work? Will the crew's plot work? Will the TV net work? | ||
| 6 | Will the Strawberry Preserve make Carolion TV Britain's first Jelly-vision service? | ||
| 7 | E C Ryder forms a new group called "Carbon Dioxide". It's a gas! | ||
| 8 | Will E C Ryder reach the Pop Festival and get a job in the Wight House? | ||
| 9 | How will E C Ryder and Elf Garnett cope with this Arresting development? | ||
| 10 | Who is this strange woman? Who is the mysterious Dr. Klodd? Who tennany? | ||
| 11 | How can E C Ryder escape from jail? How can he foil the mysterious Dr. Klodd? How can you tell if there are elephants in your fridge? | First numbered episode | |
| 12 | Can E C Ryder save the Festival? Can E C Ryder save the world? Can E C Ryder save Green Shield stamps? | ||
| 13 | Will Ena Sharples desert Dr Rossi and marry Soames Forsythe? One hint: the worst is yet to come. | ||
| 14 | Disc and Music Echo makes another attempt at the world record for the maximum number of word balloons in the minimum amount of space | ||
| 15 | What will happen as E C Ryder hurtles towards the furthest reaches of the galaxy? Watch this space! | ||
| 16 | October 4th - October 10th | ||
| 17 | Will the furries reduce E C Ryder to a height of twelve inches? Will he suffer a foot worse than death? | ||
| 18 | Will E C Ryder jump out of the frying pan into the fur? Will we run out of fur jokes? How fur can we go. | ||
| 19 | special guest star - Alpha Centauri | ||
| 20 | For more high powered action, spine-tingling suspense and pulse pounding adventure, why not try reading the John Peel column? | ||
| 21 | Another exciting episode of E C Ryder, the cartoon strip for the seventies (or perhaps for people even younger) | ||
| 22 | in Super Screenerama Vision | Disc attempts to sell E C Ryder to the USA. Will this make cents? | Strip goes into a wide format |
| 23 | Special episode for our Australian readers | Upside down | |
| 24 | Planet of the Capes | We advise you to swallow a worm on a hook and await the next episode with bated breath! | |
| 25 | Wombattle of Britain | What will happen when E C Ryder blows up a giant 60ft. balloon? One hint: the burst is yet to come. | |
| 26 | Ghost-writers in the sky | Special Christmas issue... will E C Ryder go down to the beach and watch the Yule tide? | |
| 27 | A Christmas Caroline | A Merry Christmas to all our reader | |
| 28 | Fright Christmas | Will E C Ryder's girlfriend take off her clothes and go to a costume party as Christmas Eve? | |
| 29 | Trouble Bruin | To celebrate the new year, will E C Ryder make 331/3 resolutions per minute? | |
| 30 | The Bear Essentials | Four blank pictures for people who can't stand comic strips! | |
| 31 | Ketchup My Soul! | Bad news for all Shakespeare lovers... he's already married! | |
| 32 | The Merchant of Menace | Hear Macbeth's famous speech, "Is this Mick Jagger I see before me?" | |
| 33 | Kodak, Prints of Denmark | Will Romeo be able to pay Juliet's restaurant bill, or will Romeo owe for wot Juliet ate? | |
| 34 | A Midsummer Night's Scream | Will E C Ryder construct a jetty for a desert chieftain? Will he build a sheik's pier? | |
| 35 | The Sound of the Baskervilles | Will E C Ryder discover that Sherlock Holmes remembers a fish, or is there no plaice like Holmes? | |
| 36 | Holmes Sweet Holmes | There's something funny going on... but it isn't this comic strip! | |
| 37 | Inn in Inverness | Will E C Ryder double the sale of Sandie Shaw's latest single, or will he not buy a copy either? | |
| 38 | J Edward Oliver in The Oxford English Dictionary | Memo to the Editor: Don't let me forget to write a "Next Week" caption for this space - J Edward | by E C Ryder |
| 39 | Loch Before You Leap | Will E C Ryder subtract 12,963 from 57,294? Will he make any more brilliant deductions? | |
| 40 | Sherlock Ness Monster | Guest starts galore... or had you already guest? | |
| 41 | ...and a Holst of Stars | Before visiting the supermarket, will E C Ryder make out his Chopin Liszt? | |
| 42 | For ever and ever, Eamonn | Will E C Ryder stick a 3p stamp on his forehead to prove he is a first-class male? | |
| 43 | Love Gory | Special permissive edition for mature readers only (THAT should sell more copies of next week's DISC!) | |
| 44 | Next Thursday for seven days, E C Ryder in a J Edward Oliver presentation | Leaving the TV studio, E C Ryder and Elf Garnett find themselves in a forest, but it is so cold they don't realise where they are... they can't see the wood for the freeze! | |
| 45 | Tomb it may concern | More terror as Dr Jekyll goes to the South of France... to tan his Hyde | |
| 56 | The Morgue the merrier | Learn the answers to such vital questions as 'If nobody lives on the moon, how come it's so often full?' | |
| 47 | Hyde and Shriek | E C Ryder falls into Dracula's swimming pool and discovers that blood is thicker than water. | |
| 48 | The curse of Frankenswine (Damn!) | Musicechovision 30 with an even simpler viewing method, using merely four old socks, two telephone kiosks and a rope ladder | Special 3D edition |
| 49 | Time does not pay | Has the trip to the past injured E C Ryders foot? Is it true that Time wounds all heels? | |
| 50 | I'll B C ing you | In order to cut down the number of typographical errors, Disc employs a new preaf rooder! | |
| 51 | All our Yesterdaze | Special Christmas issue wishing our readers all the best for 1972... Another FIRST for Disc! | First appearance of Fresco-Le-Raye, June 5 1971 |
| 52 | Pterodactyl we meet again | The Rolling Stonehenge emigrate to France... they've got a lot of Gaul! | One year old |
| 53 | E C does it | E C Ryder meets the God of Thunder, who is practising his arithmetic... he stands out like a Thor sum! | |
| 54 | Little Red Robin Hood | Will Henry VIII extend his jurisdiction over household pets? Will this be known as reigning cats and dogs? | |
| 55 | Black Booty | Exciting episode featuring gigantic APE eating Baked Beans entitled "Kong with the Wind" | |
| 56 | It takes Tudor tango | Will E C Ryder succeed in fermenting his wine or is it just sour grapes? | |
| 57 | Guard only knows | Will E C Ryder conduct a campaign against public apathy, or will he just not bother? | |
| 58 | It stands to treason | Will E C Ryder find himself in the age of the sinful midi skirt. Will he arrive in Midi-evil times? | |
| 59 | Malice in Wonderland | It finally happens... we use so many word balloons that there is no room left for many pictures. | |
| 60 | Alleys in Sunderland | Will E C Ryder pay a reduced price for a car made of concrete? Will he drive a hard bargain? | |
| 61 | Alison won the land | Will E C Ryder disguise himself as a pair of glasses? Will he make a spectacle of himself? | |
| 62 | Ali's seen Wonderland | Hear the Mad Hatter's famous slogan, "Liberty, Equality, Quickbrewty!" | |
| 63 | Palace in Wonderland | BBC TV presents a recipe for onion and cucumber pie (to be repeated later in the evening) | |
| 64 | Justice song at twilight | Will the Queen pass sentence, or is she just going through a phrase? | |
| 65 | Mutiny on the Mars Bar | Meet the Welsh undertaker gardener in an exciting episode entitled "20,000 leeks under the sea" | |
| 66 | E C Ryder dons "De Gaulle Stones" | La semaine prochaine: E C Ryder met son film chez le photographe. Faites attention pour les developments tres excitants. | par J Edouard Olivier |
| 67 | Obscene and Heard | E C Ryder invents a buckle-less belt, but has to abandon the idea due to lack of support. | |
| 68 | Carps and Robbers | E C Ryder finds that Captain Meano has no sole, and is soon put in his plaice. | |
| 69 | Phlight of Fancy | E C Ryder is offered a lift by bank robbers who use radar-guided trucks. But will E C Ryder ride a radar raider? | |
| 70 | Peanuts to you! | more thrills and excitement as Disc is sued by Charles M Schultz | |
| 71 | You're a good man, Arthur Brown | Will E C Ryder finally meet defeat? Will he even meet de arms or de legs? | |
| 72 | The Hound of Music | Did Elf Garnett change E C Ryder deliberately, or was it just a flook? | |
| 73 | The Acid Test | Can J Edward Oliver devise another cunning scheme to get the same amount of money for less work? | |
| 74 | More Waste Less Speed | Special 100th episode of E C Ryder (25 weeks early to save time) | |
| 75 | Spaced Out | J Edward Oliver devises a plan to get even more pictures in the same amount of space (free magnifying glass with each copy). | |
| 76 | Save the last trance for me | DISC becomes the first pop paper to print its cover on page three to prevent it getting dirty | |
| 77 | Pop goes the wevil | Exclusive DISC report reveals that record companies are to halve the price of LPs, Englebert Humperdinck is to star in the film version of "The Beano", and April Fool's Day is to be held in December. | |
| 78 | Nothing but the tooth | Will E C Ryder meet a reptile with magic powers in the snow storm? Will he encounter a blizzard wizard lizard? | |
| 79 | Yule be sorry | Exclusive Disc feature confirms that excessively loud pop music definitely does NOT cause a lack of concentration lack of concentration. | |
| 80 | You sleigh me | A Merry Christmas to all our Ryders! | Christmas special 1971 Full page, with J. Edward Oliver's Merry Diversions |
| 81 | Seven Deadly Synopsis | Spike Milligan dresses up as a woman and joins the Dragoons! | Full page, including pop predictions for 1972 |
| 82 | A Hard Knight's Day | King Wenceslas pawns his alarm clock in the hope of getting something on tick. | |
| 83 | Another exciting episode that will leave you speechless! | No word balloons on this episode | |
| 84 | Oliver Newton-John | A C I D man searching for a criminal in the workhouse identifies himself with the words: "police, Sir... I want Sam Moore" | |
| 85 | Oliver Twit | E C Ryder attempts to obtain an island in Polynesia by asking "Please Sir, I want Samoa!" | |
| 86 | Oliver and bacon | Twiggy decides to become a straight actress | |
| 87 | Opportunity Rocks | E C Ryder invents a new dance to be performed in an oil-stained mink coat... the Oily Fur Twist | |
| 88 | Brand New Quixote | Another exciting "next week" caption! | |
| 89 | A Knight on the Tiles | Yoko Ono gives a free yo-yo with every can of her new drink... Yo-yo Yoko Cocoa | Return of Fresco-Le-Raye (still unnamed) |
| 90 | Dragon with the wind | E C Ryder meets a rabbit who sleeps on a hacksaw... He's like a hare with a saw bed! | |
| 91 | Force alarm | Thrills galore as J Edward Oliver is beaten up by 3,000 enraged Chartered Accountants! | |
| 92 | Journey to Atlantis A game for Heads (and Tails) | E C Ryder forms a society to combat violence in the cinema. They beat up Stanley Kubrick. | |
| 93 | The Account of Monte Cristo | Popeye visits his girl-friend's card school. Yes, he sees Olive-at-whist! | Name the dinosaur competition |
| 94 | Freud onions | E C RYDER is invited to join a game of cricket... but there's a catch in it! | |
| 95 | Sea Sore | The writer of these "next week" captions is prosecuted under the Trades Discriptions Act. | |
| 96 | retained by public demand! | Judy Collins issues her new single - "Slow march: Scotland the Brave" | Back to a square format |
| 97 | Thistle teach you! | Will E C Ryder attempt to get on a horse? The excitement is mounting! | |
| 98 | It's about Thyme! | E C Ryder spends a night under CANVASS and wakes up with a CAMP PAIN! | |
| 99 | Anemone of the state | Another great DISC, the music paper with the best photos, the best features and two blank pages in every issue | Results of the name the dinosaur competition |
| 100 | That's fern 'nuff | Suspense, intrigue, shocks, fast-moving action... and that's just the CHARTS! | 100th 3D episode |
| 101 | Roses are red, Violence is blue | Another episode of E C RYDER, the cartoon strip that is DIFFERENT (mainly it's not funny) | |
| 102 | Morgue haste, less speed | This week had a backwards next week caption ("special episode for our more backward readers!") | |
| 103 | Me and Julio Down by The Ghoulyard | E C Ryder visits a display of notorious road-hogs... the Tootin Car-men Exhibition | |
| 104 | Meet me on the Coroner | Learn the answer to this and other important questions! | Two years old |
| 105 | Fangs for the memory | Al Capone sells E C Ryder an encyclopaedia then threatens to kill him because he knows too much! | |
| 106 | Shock it to me | The writers of our "Next Week" captions come out in sympathy and | |
| 107 | The malady lingers on | DISC celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the rumour that Elvis is about to visit Britain | |
| 108 | All I have to do is scream | How much longer can E C Ryder hold out? How much longer can Dr Vibes triumph. How much longer can the Beeb keep showing the same old "Tom and Jerry's"? | |
| 109 | Say a little scare for me | Will E C Ryder be cut into slices, or will he do something even rasher? | |
| 110 | The sword is mightier than the pendulum | J Edward Oliver considers giving Pop Pun contest winners a copy of his latest book... that would be a novel prize! | |
| 111 | Souled and healed | will the famous police doctor, Sir John Police Doctor, find his path blocked? Or will Sir John, the surgeon with serge on, surge on? | |
| 112 | Some day my prints will come | E C Ryder finds himself in the centre of a hard-hitting, fearless exposure of the music pres. J Edward Oliver finds himself suddenly unemployed. | |
| 113 | Til depth us do part | E C Ryder visits a timber yard but cannot decide whether to plan shelves of shelve plans. | |
| 114 | Diction of Dock Green | A tin of dog food inspires E C Ryder to write a new song: "Whale meat again (don't know where, don't know when)" | |
| 115 | Man, use crypt | E C Ryder buys an antique witness box... but it will never stand up in court | |
| 116 | No noose is good news | MCA release the Murray Head single "Jesus Christ Superstar" for the 25th time and it still doesn't sell | |
| 117 | The last writes | A "Discord" secretary keeps horizon E C Ryder as he comes interview | Win your name in noodles contest |
| 118 | L'amour the merrier | E C Ryder meets a nurse who makes medicine from twisted hair, but their relationship is strictly plait-tonic | |
| 119 | Lord of the Strings | The Witch Queen of Penge gives Mick Jagger and Keith Richard a poisoned chicken in an attempt to kill tow Stones with one bird. | |
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| 121 | Alice Through the Looking Glass (expurgated version) | E C Ryder joins the Sin-dicate. Is he a mere porn in their game? Will he get bawd? Vice he doing this? | |
| 122 | The charts would be a fine thing | Hans Christian Andersen refuses to work unless he is surrounded by spotlights... many lights make Hans work | |
| 123 | String something simple | Wanda Jackson marries Howard Hughes, divorces him, marries Henry Kissinger, and then sings "I'm Wanda Hughes Kissinger now" | |
| 124 | A string in the tale | Special episode to celebrate out 2,570th word balloon (we kid you not!) | |
| 125 | Your twiny hand is frozen | E C Ryder drops Tony Blackburn into a hole. Will this be lowering the tone? | |
| 126 | Now letters pay | DISC, the music paper that is different, brings you three whole pages without a single mention of Michael Jackson or Donny Osmond | |
| 127 | It makes me thick | we suggest Classical records that would make ideal gifts. Remember, there are only 27 Chopin days to Christmas! | |
| 128 | What a Boa! | A senseless parody of Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds and Stuart Henry. | |
| 129 | Strings ain't what they used to be. | As his girl-friend bares her bosom, E C Ryder says "Thanks for the mammary" | |
| 130 | Slay Ride | E C Ryder stars in a parody of the Nativity story: J Edward Oliver is smitten by a plague of locusts. | |
| 131 | The twelve Daze of Christmas | Special to welcome 1974 - another FIRST for Disc | Christmas 1972 Full page, with Test your personality questions |
| 132 | Sex of the best | E C Ryder attends a New Year's ball for spies, where even the waltz have ears | "Incredibly boring" full page |
| 133 | There is a Cavern in the town | The ex-ruler of Russia buys a crack in the ground. Join us again for more Tsar Chasm | |
| 134 | Bear-faced lies | Is this the arrival of a gnu who knows that Pooh will merely sneer at him? Will Pooh pooh-pooh the new gnu who knew? | |
| 135 | After the bawl is over | Special episode to apologise for not having a special episode | |
| 136 | My String-a-ling | Thrills! Chills! Japes! Dares! Rollicks! Other things! | |
| 137 | A fall such as I | Fanfare for Europe issue, featuring Edward Heath and E E C Ryder | |
| 138 | A pretty girl is like a malady | 32 blank pages for the benefit of people who can't read. | |
| 139 | Getting to be a Hobbit with Me | Instructions on how to strain off adhesive made from eggs... and other DISC eggs-gluesive! | |
| 140 | Nerves of steal | Speshul tribyewt to Noddee Holda and Slaid | |
| 141 | Cilla Bull (a black comedy) | Once again we refrain from using the joke: "If your face flannel is too dry, duet it" | |
| 142 | Thirst Degree Murdor | At last! Learn the answer to the vital question, "What is the vital question to which we shall learn the answer?" | |
| 143 | Everyone's Tolkien at Me | Join us again for another exciting episode... providing, of course, you don't fall asleep within the next 24 hours! | |
| 144 | A sleep of the tongue | Has the Lost Chord really been destroyed? Is E C RYDER really doomed? Are eyebrows really to prevent sweat running in your eyes? | |
| 145 | Martyr Hari | Don't fail to miss the thrilling final installment | |
| 146 | All good things must come to an end | "The End"? | |
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| 148 | Don't fail to miss the first thrilling episode of J. Edward Oliver's new cartoon strip | ||
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The later DISC years: add 148 to get the absolute numbers, thus episode 2 is really episode 150 |
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| 1 | STARTS TODAY! J. Edward Oliver's pulse-pounding new cartoon strip | Special episode to celebrate reaching our 2nd episode (or to put it another way. Special episode to celebrate reaching our 150th episode) | |
| 2 | Vision chips | John Lee Hooker joins a rugby club and becomes John Lee, hooker | Strip is now called "J. Edward Oliver" |
| 3 | Did you see what the dinosaur? | John Lee Hooker smokes an Indian water pipe... it's John Lee Hookah! | |
| 4 | Mice won, Cyril | We finally run out of jokes about John Lee Hooker | |
| 5 | Castor oil (with a castor thousands) | More thrills as we answer the vital question: "Oh no, not another bleedin' quest??" | |
| 6 | What made the Dino-sore? | Join us again next week - same time, same page, same jokes! | |
| 7 | Line Tamer | WE begin giving a free tea bag with each cartoon strip... don't miss our first Strip Teas | |
| 8 | Third anniversary | ||
| 9 | I wonder Ooze kissing her now | a line of people wait outside a music-publishers... and that's a queue for a song! | |
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| 11 | Blood is sicker than water | Now he's finished with the Cartridge Family, will J Edward Oliver finally get down to proceeding with the story? | |
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| 13 | Tour de Farce | Can J. Edward Oliver devise another cunning plan to get paid twice for the same material? | First appearance of J Edward Oliver's Greatest Bits |
| 14 | Door-re-mi | It finally happens. We have so many competitions, there's no room for any cartoon strip. | |
| 15 | Gone Bussed | Has J. Edward Oliver really been crushed by the cottage? House he gonna get out of this one? | |
| 16 | Flying Sorcerer | William Tell learns to ride a bicycle... but will Will wheel well? | |
| 17 | How does Dino soar? | For the benefit of readers who missed today's episode, we're printing the same one again next week | |
| 18 | Hours not to reason why | Anyone who reads DISC whilst standing in a bucket of ink will be considered a blackleg. | JEO goes on strike for an extra 50p a week |
| 19 | Strike a light | Special KING SIZE issue (if you happen to know a King who measures 11 x 16) | |
| 20 | On strike while the iron is hot | Following the policy of avoiding anything that's funny, we print an anthology of Tony Blackburn jokes | |
| 21 | You know it makes Censor | Is J. Edward Oliver taking real industrial action, or is it just a striking resemblance? | Full half page, launch of Fresco-Le-Raye's fan club |
| 22 | I couldn't scare less | J. Edward Oliver becomes the world's first cartoonist to be sued for libel by his own Editor! | Strike is over |
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| 24 | Are Bond films at a premium? | Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzz | |
| 25 | The Moore the merrier | Edward Oliver puts 27 spoonfuls of sugar in his coffee... Don't miss next week's stirring instalment | |
| 26 | Live and let's spy | we apologise for the misprint that will doubtless occur in this week's "Next Week" craption | |
| 27 | Live and let Dinosaur | DISC publishes the exclusive designs for Guy Darrell's new cutlery. Don't miss our special Guy Forks issue! | |
| 28 | One picture is worth a thousand word balloons | Back to normal... 28 word balloons without a single picture! | |
| 29 | The lion of least resistance | When the jungle cat tells J. Edward Oliver: "You've made your bed and now you must lion it", is he telling the truth or merely lion? | |
| 30 | Old on, I'm coming! | save money by buying our special ECONOMY-SIZE issue. Save even MORE money by NOT buying our economy-size issue! | |
| 31 | Shock around the clock | Bonus pin-up calendar for 1975... another first for Disc! | November 1973 |
| 32 | The Stone Age... the Iron Age... and now the Garb Age! | DISC organises the world's first Nose-Picking Contest, with free coupon, rules and bag for your entry! | |
| 33 | The Prizes and Insults Board | Angered by rumours that he is living in the past, Billy Fury goes to Buckingham palace to deliver a protest to the King. | |
| 34 | The germ of an idea | Be with us as we answer the question, "What, no Christmas story?" | |
| 35 | CHRISTMAS GARBAGE PAGE | Yuletide greetings to puppy-farm owners... a Merry Christmas to our breeders! | Full page, Discopoly game extra |
| 36 | NEW YEAR GARBAGE PAGE | In order to save ink, we are not printing a "Next Week" caption this week. | |
| 37 | Have pun - Will travel | we award a prize to anyone who can remember the story so far! | |
| 38 | Nostalgia is a thing of the past | J Edward Oliver loses his inspiration. Anyone who finds it should contact the police | |
| 39 | Honour and offer | Only four weeks to the special 191st episode! | |
| 40 | Duel Personality | Only three weeks to the special 191st episode! | |
| 41 | Jewel Personality | Only two weeks to the special 191st. episode! | |
| 42 | These schoolish things remind me of you | Only one week to the special 191st episode! | |
| 43 | These schoolish things remind me of you | Only 46 weeks to the special 289th Episode! | |
| 44 | By a babbling book | J. Edward Oliver imagines a tower of flats. Is this a mental block? | |
| 45 | Owl for one and one for owl | Special episode to celebrate Fresco Le-Raye's 2,000,002nd Birthday! | |
| 46 | Sheikh a leg | Special episode to celebrate our 4,202nd word balloon | |
| 47 | It takes all swords to make a world | Special episode to celebrate the fact that it's not a special episode! | |
| 48 | The Chosen Fu | The Royal Scots Guards make a Kung Fu film entitled "Enter the Dragoon". | |
| 49 | Kung Futile | Unabridged! Unexpurgated! Fresco-Le-Raye's first book. Could this be a Novel experience? | |
| 50 | Author and his Nights at the Brown Table | Special Issue to celebrate National Be-kind-to-Dinosaurs Week | |
| 51 | Ape-y Days are Here Again! | We inaugurate a charity fund to benefit underpriviliged monkeys and fish. Send all donations to the J Edward Oliver Charity Ape-eel! | |
| 52 | A lode off my mind | Count and Countess Dracula buy two new tombstones marked 'His' and 'Hearse'. | 200th episode |
| 53 | Another Dotty Episode | An onion goes floating down the river in a thrilling episode entitled: 'What made the Bridge on the River Kwai? | |
| 54 | The Show must Drag On | Who is the most EVIL person in the world? (Not counting Alice Cooper, of course!) | |
| 55 | Hex Certificate | Don't fail to buy next week's issue (we need the money!) | |
| 56 | The Chants would be a fine thing! | Gary Glitters new book, "Who is J Edward Oliver and why is he saying these terrible things about me?" | |
| 57 | Might is Write | Much the same as this week, really. | |
| 58 | Hero we go again | June 9 - June 15! | |
| 59 | Frog Warning | Wext Neek: Brand new Spot-the-Mistakes Contest. | |
| 61 | Boys & Girls come out to plagiarize | Due to unforseen circumstances, we have been forced to print next week's episode this week. But worry not... this week's 4th Birthday episode (plus Fresco-Le-Raye in full colour - yes, Really) will appear NEXT WEEK! | |
| 60 | Super the Day | At last! The episode that was postponed from the week before the week before last until the week after the week before two weeks ago | Fourth anniversary |
| 62 | IT DOESN'T MOTOR ANY MORE | A special episode you just wouldn't believe (so I'm not going to bother to tell you about it!) | |
| 63 | Sewn ear and yet sew fur | Special 26th September issue | |
| 64 | Through no Falk of my own | Now! Here's your chance to write your own 'Next Week' caption: | |
| 65 | Knife and Falk. | We finally reveal the two things you need to enjoy this cartoon strip... a sense of humour and god eyesight! | |
| 66 | Hot cross bunny | Will J Edward Oliver travel by road, or will he continue his journey by whale? | |
| 67 | Hot cross puns | For those of you who are regular readers, try eating All Bran! | Greatest bits volume 2 |
| 68 | Please help me, I' fooling | Another thrilling episode of the cartoon that dares to be DIFFERENT (providing it saves work) | |
| 69 | Isle be seeing you | Will the crew of H. M. S. Robinson get jobs as tailors? Will the Robinson crew sew? | |
| 70 | Beg, steal or burrow! | Superdinosaur files again! Plus special bonus: Superfly dinosaurs again! | |
| 71 | Rice and shine | Can Supertadpole save Fresco? Can Tartan save J. Edward Oliver? Can Bob Monkhouse save the Golden Shot? | |
| 72 | The Tarzan Stripes | Don't miss the second thrilling episode, entitled 'Chapter Two'! | |
| 73 | Has Tartan been kilt | Don't miss the third thrill-packed episode, entitled "Chapter Seven"! | |
| 74 | Me Tartan... you sane? | Watch out! Superdinosaur's back! (Also Superdinosaur's front, top and sides!) | Protest space |
| 75 | Fearsome Prison Blues | The battle of the century! Vomit-Man vs Superaardvark plus Andy Kim vs. Neil Diamond | |
| 76 | Vine, Women and Song! | Will Fresco finally find his dream-girl? Will pigs finally learn to fly? | |
| 77 | Love me, love my frog! | No-one under 18 to buy our special Hallowe'en Horror Issue (unless accompanied by 9p.)! | |
| 78 | My Scare Lady | Special Episode to apologise for this week's Special Episode! | Full page begins |
| 79 | Corpse and Robbers | Special contest to guess the nationality of Disc's editor | |
| 80 | Sin Something Simple | For the first time! Complete and unabridged! The Censored Encyclopaedia Britannica! | |
| 81 | Evil is the route of all money | The Life and Habits of the North American beaver | |
| 82 | Castor Fate to the Wind | The Life and Habits of the Madeline Smith. | |
| 83 | The Soul Survivors | The Life and Habits of the Madeline Smith (yes, REALLY!) | Double page pic of JEO |
| 84 | Birds of the world | At last! Official results of the J. Edward Oliver Unpopularity Poll. | |
| 85 | Bubble, Bubble, Toyland Trouble | Special Easter episode featuring Fresco-Le-Raye! | |
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| 87 | Old Lang's sign | Special Contest to guess the sex of Beverley Legge's sister, Fred. | New Year bumper fun page 1975 |
| 88 | Jest in Time | The story will continue in a fortnight. Meanwhile, next week, we bring you (surprise!) another Special Episode! | |
| 89 | Two Lips from Hamster Jam | Will King Arthur's surgeon lance a few boils? Or will he Lancelot? | |
| 90 | Squire on the Hypotenuse | Has J Edward Oliver really changed into a horse, or is it a knight mare? | |
| 91 | Joust in Time | The fourth in J. Edward Oliver's trilogy of new competitions! | |
| 92 | My Missed Ache | Qwertyuiop shrdlu asdf gh jkl zxcvbnm Mxyzplk% | |
| 93 | Nudes of the World | J. Edward Oliver's 242nd. "Next week" caption | |
| 94 | For Ever and Ever, Amicrobes | WOULD YOU BELIEVE 3,000 WORD BALLOONS IN SIX PICTURES? | |
| 95 | Gullible's Travels | Will JEO come across a queue of corpses? Will he meet the deadline? | |
| 96 | Hex marks the spot | Will Fresco find love and happiness on his 2,000,002nd birthday? What do you YOU think? | (sic) |
| 97 | Shocks and Stares | Special SURPRISE episode (Mainly, I haven't WRITTEN it yet!) | |
| 98 | Air today, gone tomorrow | How The West was Won. The following week: How the West was Two | |
| 99 | The Fastest Pun in the West | Will the Indians replace their spears with Colt 45's? Will we use the joke "spear today, gone tomorrow"? | |
| 100 | A Knutty Problem | Back to our thrill-packed story ("Thrill-packed???" - Ed.) | |
| 101 | A Tents Moment | For one week only... Special 250th episode Full Spectrum COLOUR! | |
| 102 | Tepee For Two | For one week only... Special 251st. episode Full Tonal BLACK & WHITE! | |
| 103 | Home on Derange | Will J. Edward Oliver buy a new Toby jug? Toby or not Toby, that is the question! | |
| 104 | Mask a silly question | At last! An entire episode without the word "Chomp!" | |
| 105 | Special 600th Episode | Free Cassette Recorder and Elastic Aardvark for every reader! | |
| 106 | With a holster stars! | Run down to the fun down at the gundown at sundown! | |
| 107 | Well, did you heifer? | Special National Mississippi Riverboat Paddle-wheel Week Issue. PLUS... The final Tarot Card! | |
| 108 | A change is as good as arrest! | The only-slightly-boring adventures of SUPERDINOSAUR! | |
| 109 | Just a flush in the pan | At last! Because YOU demanded it... Superdinosaur meets Vomit-Man! | |
| 110 | Lava come back to me | Special 5th Birthday episode!! Will the tyrant of Tarot perform the Dance of the Seven Veils? | |
| 111 | Writer of wrongs | Is this REALLY the Tyrant of Tarot, or is it just ANOTHER trick to get you to buy next week's DISC? | |
| 112 | Chairmen of The Bored | Will J Edward Oliver perform the Dance of the Seven Veils? All is revealed in our final chapter! | Special boring episode! |
| 113 | Get witch quick | Now what? | ...and this is where the story really starts |
| 114 | A good Pun for your money! | Will William Tell bequeath his well badly? Or will Will will his well well? | |
| 115 | One good turnip deserves another | 'Turnip watching for fun and profit' | |
| 116 | A novel experience | Will Fresco become the world's first 2,000,002-year-old pop singer (not counting Alvin Stardust)? | |
| 117 | Thumb Enchanted Evening | Will Izzy Ryder change into a duck? Will he get up at the quack of dawn? | |
| 118 | Banned on the run | Sorry... the Editor has censored this week's "Next week" caption | Strip completely censored by Editor |
| 119 | Gossip-a-dee-doo-dah! | Will we finally reveal the TRUTH about Mrs. Entwhistle at No. 73? | |
| 120 | Laugh is just a bowl of cherries | Russell Mael is transformed into a fish, and asks "Am I my brother's kipper?" | Test your sense of humour episode |
| 121 | The answer's a lemming | Make sure you get the name right! Remember to ask for "Record Dirror & Misc"! | |
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| 1 | It takes Tutor tango | Will Fresco get a job driving a car? Will he have something to chauffeur his efforts? | Half a page? |
| 2 | Have pun, will travel | We invite all readers who like sponge with fruit on top to join our Flan Club | |
| 3 | Mad as a March heir | Another chill-packed episode of "The Incredible Shrinking Cartoon Strip" | |
| 4 | Anyone Who Had A Chart | We award a PRIZE to anyone who can read the entire episode without GROANING | |
| 5 | Will Meet Again | Fresco invents the buckle-less belt, but has to abandon the ides, due to lack of support | |
| 6 | Nostalgia is a thing of the past | Will Fresco conduct a campaign against public apathy, or will he just not bother | Best bits 3 |
| 7 | Thirst come, thirst served | Fresco-le-Raye writes his autobiography (the story of his CAR!) | |
| 8 | I'll BCing you | Fresco meets a rabbit who sleeps on a hacksaw... He's like a hare with a saw bed! | |
| 9 | All our yerterdaze | Fresco visits a timberyard, but can't decide whether to plan his shelves, or shelve his plans! | |
| 10 | Did you see what the dinosaur? | All new! All Original! All Rotten! | |
| 11 | The Bogey Man Will Get You | Will Izzy Ryder break the world record for standing on a block of ice, or will he get cold feet? | |
| 12 | The Seven Deadly Signs | Izzy Ryder takes some frozen water to a sheep, and sings, 'I only have Ice for Ewe' | |
| 13 | Special REJECT episode | Hunchback of Notre Dame. Does that ring a bell? | Toppo D. Popps |
| 14 | All the world loves a laugher | J. Edward Oliver brings you the follow-up to Anti-jokes... would you believe UNCLE jokes? | |
| 15 | All Vampires are Batty | An entire episode that has absolutely nothing to do with superstitions, touch wood. | |
| 16 | Lib and let die | Bumper Christmas extravaganza... and still only half a page! | |
| 17 | Once on Royal David's settee | J. EDWARD OLIVER wishes a not-so-bad-Christmas-after-all to all his readers | |
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| 19 | Where you bean? | A bishop agrees to lend Fresco money, provided he joins the church. Is this a faith worse than debt? | |
| 20 | Climb does not pay | The remainder of the remainder of this Christmas episode! | |
| 21 | This old harp of mine | Will Fresco learn to play the harp? Or hasn't he got the pluck? | |
| 22 | ...draws a blank | Has J. Edward Oliver got a spare-time job at the Blank of England? | |
| 23 | The prize of Fame | The Middle Half of J. Edward Oliver's New Year Bumper Fun Page! | |
| 24 | How green was my Valet | At last! The top half of the 10th January issue | |
| 25 | Tooth is stranger than Friction | J. Edward Oliver makes yet ANOTHER attempt to break the record for the world's most boring carton | |
| 26 | Corpse and robbers | Will Fresco meet a female dinosaur, fall in love and live happily ever after? Will pigs learn to fly? | |
| 27 | Psalm Enchanted Evening | Special Episode to celebrate Frisco's 2,000,003rd birthday! | (sic) |
| 28 | Hip Hip Le-Raye | Someone gives Fresco a boomerang and wishes him Many Happy Returns! | |
| 29 | Hero today, gone tomorrow | More thrills! More excitement! More pointless insults! | |
| 30 | Up and Atom! | Will the Editor let J. Edward Oliver bring you his Special 300th Episode in FULL COLOUR? | |
| 31 | Earwigo Again! | Don't miss the second thrilling chapter, entitled "Chapter Two" | in blazing colour |
| 32 | Paperback fighter! | At last! Something completely different! The entire episode printed in Japanese | |
| 33 | Age before booty | The week before the week after next! | |
| 34 | Cartoon Show | Another three cartoon strips for the price of one | |
| 35 | Strip Cheese | J. Edward Oliver brings you a Special Pornographic episode (wanna BET? - Ed) | |
| 36 | Corn with the Wind | An anagram of EKE X. NEWT | |
| 37 | THIS WAY UP | Fresco stays at a vile inn. Is this a proper fiddle? | The invisible aardvark |
| 38 | You must be choking! | We answer the vital question, "Is Disbelief better than Dat belief?" | |
| 39 | Stuporstars | Beware of tall, dark cartoonists bearing silly jokes | |
| 40 | J Edward Oliver draws the line. Or, rather, doesn't | World's first invisible 'NEXT WEEK' caption | |
| 41 | The Stone Age, The Iron Age, and now... The Garb Age! | Ten years in the making! Special Sixth Birthday episode | |
| 42 | National Wealth Service | Special Offer! One cartoon strip for the price of three! | |
| 43 | Carting is such sweet sorrow | Death! Blood! Shock! Terror! Horror! Aardvarks! | 6th anniversary |
| 44 | Save your Mrs for me | When Father O'Way gets into his party frock, will it be a change of address? | |
| 45 | Rain of Terror | See it from the beginning! No-one will be admitted after the first three pictures | |
| 46 | Mum's the word | Please don't give away the ending to your friends. Let them buy their OWN copy! | |
| 47 | Mothering Heights | Can Witch Whey escape alive? Can she even escape DEAD? One hint... the worst jokes are yet to come! | |
| 48 | Remorse code | We answer the vital question: 'Is this where the story REALLY starts? | |
| 49 | Shock it to me! | Try not to go to sleep before the next episode - you might find two little marks on your throat! | |
| 50 | Drac The Ripper | The Suspense mounts, until it becomes... Suspounds? | The end... yet not the end |
| 51 | J Edward Oliver presents A COMICS TRIP | We finally answer the vital question: "What vital question are we finally going to answer" | |
| 52 | You know it makes Censor | What's yellow, runny and costs a very great deal of money? | |
| 53 | Bed and Bored | I give up... what is yellow, runny and costs a great deal of money? | |
| 54 | Rocket Around the Clock | Space... the final frontier. Or is it the final front THERE? | The Six Million Dollar Custard |
| 55 | Custard's Last Stand | Thrill follows thrill as the Bionic Custard meets... The 6½p Man | |
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| 57 | I've forgotten what 'Amnesia' means | Be the first to celebrate NATIONAL HIT-YOUR-NEIGHBOUR WEEK! | |
| 58 | Bored as a stiff | Something else | |
| 59 | Sum Enchanted Evening | Fun and games with your great-grandmother's iron lung | |
| 60 | Sauna you than me | Who is the mysterious Dr Klodd? Why does he want to take over the world? | |
| 61 | Disguise in love with you | Special November 13 episode... a week early! | |
| 62 | Still crazy after all these beers | Thrills! Chills! Japes! Scrapes! Dares! Scares! Rollicks! Other things! | |
| 63 | Test a song at twilight | At last! For the first time ever! Special 333rd episode! | |
| 64 | A Womb with a View | At last! For the first time ever! Special 334th episode! | |
| 65 | Feathers a will, there's a way | For making fun of religious groups, RECORD MIRROR is sued by The Sects Discrimination Board | JEO looks for ways to save work |
| 66 | North, South, East and Quest | We answer the vital question "Is a Decade something to help design the floor of a ship?" | |
| 67 | "Who nose?" featuring Mickey Mouth | Yet another thrilling episode completely free of Bert Weedon! | |
| 68 | Tales of a thousand-and-one frights | Would you believe a free Fresco record for every reader? Well, don't - because it's not true! | A full page spread over two weeks |
| 69 | I'm screaming of a Fright Christmas | THIS WEEK: J. Edward Oliver wishes a Merry Christmas to all his readers! | Faster-Mind game |
| 70 | Where there's a will, there's a way | Will the Slave of the Lamp use his roll-on 'US' deodorant? Will it be a stroke of genius? | Lots of black panels, no pictures, word balloons |
| 71 | Poser useful things | Record Mirror is the world's first music journal to wish its readers a Happy 1978! | |
| 72 | The Agnes Quont Trilogy, Part 4 | We find out that being an engineer for an oil company can be extremely boring | |
| 73 | Grudge and Jury | Johnny Rotten is awarded and OBE for spitting on Nicholas Parsons | |
| 74 | Monkey is the root of all evil | The above episode is entered in the Guiness Book of Records for having the greatest number of bad jokes in a single picture | |
| 75 | Where there's a wall, there's a way | All our usual regula features, including charts, news, reviews and advert for 'Hi-Fi Weekly' | |
| 76 | Which Ipswich witch switch? | We expose the ridiculous movie 'Texas Chain-saw Massacre'. Who on earth would want to massacre chain-saws? | Queen's Silver Jubilee edition |
| 77 | Seventh Blunder of the World | Is Kong effeminate? Is he a chimp pansy? | |
| 78 | With a Kong in my heart | We ask the question, "Are giant apes shy because they lack Kongfidence?" | |
| 79 | Beware the Brides of March | The natives become restless. Someone has stolen their Horlicks | |
| 80 | Simian chanted evening | Don't fail to miss our special 350th episode! | |
| 81 | I came, I saw, I concurred | The enchanting adventures of Winnie the Pig's vomit | Waterloo Turd |
| 82 | 100 Puns and a Feather | World's first cartoon strip drawn by a nine-month-old cocker spaniel! | Strip drawn by JEO's godchild Rebecca Kate Uden (age 6) |
| 83 | A Dinosaur Point | We ask Fresco: "Did you pinch that girl?" Or, in the words of that famous tree, "Juniper?" | |
| 84 | Eva Destruction | Tim and Andrew write an opera about a lemon. But will it strike a sour note? | |
| 85 | Eva Brick | Place your order now for our special 1,000th episode, on sale August 31, 1989 | |
| 86 | Well, did you Eva? | Mrs Agnes Quont volunteers to play the lead in a musical based on the life of Faye Dunaway | |
| 87 | A matter of wife and death | RM becomes the only remaining British newspaper to refrain from mentioning Angela Rippon | |
| 88 | There's no account in Forte Haste | Two berserk accountants run amok in a thrilling sequel to 'Jaws'. We call it 'Bores' | |
| 89 | Now letters pray | Izzy Ryder has a steam bath. Sauna him than me! | |
| 90 | Harmony times must I tell you | Uncensored! Unexpurgated! We finally reveal that Tam Paton's surname is an anagram of 'Panto' | |
| 91 | The Sickwick Capers | We finally plunge to the heights of stupidity as... | |
| 92 | Two Wongs don't make a white! | We answer the vital question, 'Is there life after death, or merely death after life?' | |
| 93 | What do you want to make Demise at me for? | Worst ever episode! I shouldn't bother buying next week's RECORD MIRROR if I were you | |
| 94 | Seventh anniversary reprint of episodes 1 and 2 - see them | ||
| 95 | Lust in Space | Has God got a sense of humour; or will J Edward Oliver be struck by lightning? | |
| 96 | A myth is as good as a mile | Has Cliff Richard got a sense of humour; or will J. Edward Oliver be struck down by lightning? | |
| 97 | Nod only goes | The sex life of Christ (that's Fred Christ, 23 Acacia Avenue, Acton, W3) | |
| 98 | A book at Deadtime | We finally answer the vital question, "What will next week's episode be about?" | |
| 99 | Offend in need | Izzy Ryder buys a mink coat and sings 'Ermine the mood for love' | |
| 100 | Wheel meet again | Normal Servings will be Consumed as soon as possible | |
| 101 | Habit and Costello | This gripping saga will be continued as soon as J. Edward Oliver learns how to draw penny farthings | |
| 102 | Magical Misery Tour | Fresco meets a heavenly policeman who greets him with the words, "Halo, halo, halo!" | |
| 103 | I am not a numb bear | Thrill-packed saga entitled 'The Time That People Forgot' | |
| 104 | Amoeba Derci Roma | The first in a series of Handy Boy Scouts | |
| 105 | A walk on the mild side | Fresco joins a new band called Carbon Monoxide. It's a gas! | |
| 106 | The complete personality test | ||
| 107 | Lady Chatterley's Laugher | Three weeks after the week before last! | |
| 108 | Trick or trait | special quiz to enable you to find out whether you've bought next week's RECORD MIRROR. | |
| 109 | A Scar is Born | after their strike E. C. Ryder helps the Lucas firm to recover. Yes, he gives them Lucas aid! | |
| 110 | You know it makes scents | Amazing free LP offer to every reader! | |
| 111 | Feud for thought | At last! Would you believe... A FULL PAGE!!! | |
| 112 | The Man With The Golden Pun | Can you stand it? ANOTHER full page! | Return of the case of the seven deadly naked virgin aardvarks |
| 113 | The Spy Who Shoved Me | RECORD MIRROR becomes the world's first music paper to use the word 'hypotrachelium' | Son of return of the case of the seven deadly naked virgin aardvarks |
| 114 | Hair we go again! | Especially for people who missed this week's episode we're printing the same one again! | |
| 115 | The Spoof Of The Pudding | Special Issue to celebrate National Swallow A Live Puma Week | |
| 116 | The malady lingers on | Special report on Erich von Daniken's latest book 'Was God An Aardvark?' | |
| 117 | Parodies Lost | Danny Mirror releases his latest single, 'I Remember Fresco-Le-Raye' | The last ever episode |