{"id":18303,"date":"2026-04-27T06:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=18303"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:42:24","slug":"david-tayler-photos-tommy-steele-and-johnny-mains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2026\/04\/27\/david-tayler-photos-tommy-steele-and-johnny-mains\/","title":{"rendered":"David Tayler Photos, Tommy Steele and Johnny Mains"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently heard, via Rog Peyton, from Marion Ellis who was a friend of David Tayler. Her husband took photographs of David posing as references for his book covers for which David got paid \u00a340. She sent me five which I have put on the page HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a> which is my guess as to which cover they went with. Do you agree?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Sir Thomas Hicks (17\/12\/936), known professionally as Tommy Steele, is an English entertainer, regarded as Britain’s first teen idol rock and roll star, actor, sculptor and writer. He wrote a children’s novel, ‘Quincy’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> about a reject toy trying to save himself and his fellow rejects in a bin in the basement of a toy store. published in 1981. When I read this I was reminded of something similar, ‘The Raggy Dolls’<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>, a British cartoon series which aired on TV in 1986. The series is set in Mr Grimes’ Toy Factory, where imperfect dolls are thrown into a reject bin. Any similarity I’m sure is purely coincidental! ‘The Raggy Dolls’<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> books were published by Boxtree, another PAN imprint.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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It’s been a while since I communicated with Johnny Mains when he was talking about producing the ‘The PAN Book of Horror Stories Scrapbook’<\/span><\/strong><\/a> which, unfortunately, didn’t materialise. I have the Les Edwards artwork that was going to be the cover and I know I have shown it before but it is worth a second look.. The reason Johnny got in touch was it was his 50th birthday and he got a personalised card from artist Richard Wells which makes me a little jealous. Click HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a> to see it.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently heard, via Rog Peyton, from Marion Ellis who was a friend of David Tayler. Her husband took photographs of David posing as references for his book covers for which David got paid \u00a340. She sent me five which I have put on the page HERE which is my guess as to which cover […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18357,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions\/18357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}