Frankie Stein tried his hand at different sports. Here are his attempts
at boxing and football during the early years in WHAM! when the strip was illustrated by Ken
Reid:
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| From WHAM! No. 33, 30th January, 1965 |
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| From WHAM! No. 60, 7th August, 1965 |
Now let’s see what happened when Frankie
Stein tried playing tennis. The episode is from WHAM! during the period
when Ken Reid was ill or otherwise unable to work and another artist took over.
It's a great pity that the 20-week period of Mr. Reid’s absence coincided with
Frankie’s stay in the weird wilds of Scotland at Madam McAbre’s Academy for
Frustrated Freaks (or Monster Manor) that was full of fiendish characters. One
can only imagine how brilliant the episodes would have been, had they been illustrated
by Frankie Stein’s original artist…
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| From WHAM! No. 101, 21st May, 1966 |
Robert Nixon’s version of Frankie Stein was different but also
nice in its own way, particularly in Shiver
and Shake and the early issues of the combined WHOOPEE! and SHIVER AND SHAKE. In this “Big News Issue” of Shiver and Shake Frankie takes part in
an International Athletics Meeting…
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| From SHIVER AND SHAKE dated 5th October, 1974 (No. 79, last issue) |
Come back tomorrow to see what happened when Frankie Stein was officially
invited to join Team GB for 1980 Olympics…
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