In Buster and Monster Fun with the cover
date of Jan 14th, 1978 Dad got the news that he’d won £ 75,000 in the pools and
immediately decided to go on the World cruise that he has always dreamed about.
Realising they’ll get kicked out of hotels all over the Globe because of
Faceache’s scrunging hobby, Dad takes Faceache to the Belmonte School for
Uncontrollable Young Whelps and leaves the boy for good in the iron hands of Mr. Albert
Thrashbottom, the Headmaster, and Mr. Snipe, the Teacher. The episode marked
the beginning of Belmonte School era that lasted until the strip ended.
Here is the 1978 Christmas
episode, the first one at Belmonte School:
As a Christmas gift
to my readers, below are some close-up scans of the original artwork. I am
puzzled about ‘No. 262’ and ‘FLY’ written in pencil at the top left corner
of the original page – I just can’t make any sense of this. Also, you can see the
title of an earlier episode (The Pied Piper)
underneath the glued piece of paper with the text ‘at Belmonte School’. The
artwork page is four times the size of the printed page in the paper. Enjoy! :)
What an amazing original art to own!!
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ReplyDeleteThat title box certainly is strange! Thanks for sharing the amazing artwork!
ReplyDeleteAmazing stuff there - thanks for that! Is it yours?
ReplyDeleteIt is. I won it in a postal auction this year.
DeleteWow! It's really nice to see those original art scans, thank you. You must be pleased as punch with that. And what a great scrunge, too.
ReplyDeleteTo me one of the most endearing things about Faceache was his common-as-muck pronunciation. He’d drop aitches all over the place, and would pronounce words like window as ‘winder’, to rhyme with Belinda (the Bewitched version, if you wish!). I’ll have to do some more research to see when his speech was corrected; it certainly lasted for quite a while after he went to Belmonte School in early ’78. One wonders if these days he’d be considered a negative influence on young children as they learn to talk. “That wouldn’t happen”, you say? Well, ask the Teletubbies...
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