I am the pen, Paperback writer Spike Milligan with his lifetime achievement award at the 11th annual British Book Awards in 1999. He wrote volumes of autobiography including Adolf Hitler, My Part in His Downfall and Mussolini, His Part in My Downfall, as well as books of "silly" poetry for children. Other books sported such titles as Indefinite Articles and Scunthorpe, Floored Masterpieces with Worse Verse, Sir Nobonk and the Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Naughty Nasty Dragon. A number of Spike books recently came into my possession which had previously been owned by one of Spikes life long friends Gunner Bob "Dipper" Dye. When Bob sadly died in the mid 90's they were passed to another of Spikes friends Stan Franklin - better known as the Mirror cartoonist 'Franklin'. This was written on the inside front cover of Alfred Drapers The Story of The Goons. I found it interesting and thought I would share it with you. As you can see it's signed by Bob "Dipper" Dye, Spike as Gunner. S. Milligan and also by Stan Franklin and has taken pride of place in my collection. Apparently Bob got the nickname "Dipper" because of the way he dipped his head when he was playing darts. Some of the images below are courtesy of ebay - thanks ebay. I will replace them with better images as I get them. Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan - (I got Spike to autograph my copy) Bible, the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan Wuthering Heights According to Spike Milligan Lady Chatterley's Lover: According to Spike Milligan Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan A Children's Treasury of Milligan: Classic Stories and Poems Badjelly the Witch: A Fairy Story - also illustrated by Spike The War Memoirs were released as box sets at various times Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall Where Have All the Bullets Gone? Milligan's War: The Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan Spike Milligan : The Family Album : An Illustrated Autobiography Book of Bits or a Bit of a Book Sir Nobonk and the Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Naughty, Nasty Dragon The 101 Best and Only Limericks of Spike Milligan Floored Masterpieces with Worse Verse [with Tracey Boyd] Where have all the Bullets Gone? Startling Verse for all the Family Here Comes Pob [book of the TV series, with some new poems by Spike] Two Tales of Wonder Milligan Milestones boxset That's Amazing! Strange Facts with comments by Spike Milligan Dear Robert, Dear Spike : the Graves-Milligan Correspondence Condensed Animals The Mini Milligan Collection Fleas Knees & Hidden Elephants Goblins Depression and How to Survive It William McGonagall The Truth At Last William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin Tombstone Humour - by Richard Death - Introduced by Spike Milligan The Story of The Goons The Book of the Goons The Lost Goon Shows The Goon Show Scripts - Spike was the editor on this one More Goon Show Scripts - edited by Spike The Goons The Story MacDrown Urgle urgle urgle Spike Milligan If you have any books by or magazines featuring Spike please let me know and if possible send me a scan which I will include on the site. My aim is to get the site as comprehensive as possible. If you would like to write a review on any of Spikes work let me know as well. To contact me please email [email protected] | ||
