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Brian Bolland was born on 26 March 1951 in Butterwick, Lincolnshire to parents Albert " A. J.

" John, a fenland farmer, and Lillie Bolland.

He spent his " first 18 years " living " in a small village near Boston in the fens of Lincolnshire, England ," but has " no memory of comics " much before the age of ten.

When American comics began to be imported into England, c. 1959, Bolland says that it " took a little while for me to discover them ," but by 1960 he was intrigued by Dell Comics ' Dinosaurus !, which fed into a childhood interest in dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes.

Comics including Turok, Son of Stone and DC's Tomahawk soon followed, and it was this burgeoning comics collection that would help inspire the young Bolland to draw his own comics around the age of ten with ideas such as " Insect League.

" He recalls that " uperheroes crept into my life by stealth ," as he actively sought out covers featuring " any big creature that looked vaguely dinosaur-like, trampling puny humans.

" This adolescent criteria led from Dinosaurus!

and Turok via House of Mystery to " Batman and Robin were being harassed by big weird things, as were Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman.

" Soon, family outings to Skegness became an excuse for the future artist to " trawl ... round some of the more remote backstreet newsagents " for comics to store on an overflowing " bookcase I'd made in school woodwork especially.