Wednesday, February 5, 2014

BUSTER COVERS GALLERY - PART 12



The second Shrinker story (Return of the Shrinker) ended in BUSTER dated March 21st, 1964 (Ray Moor’e and Steve Holland’s BUSTER Index 1960 – 1995 wrongly says it concluded on Feb. 15th, 1964). In the end of that story the evil scientist Capek found himself in the hands of the law and was put behind bars at last, but promised to return and claim his revenge. And return he did in BUSTER dated May 2nd, 1964. Gang boss Madago devised and flawlessly executed a daring plan to free Capek hoping that the two can form a team and become the richest men in the World. He underestimated the cunning of the evil scientist who used the crime syndicate’s resources to perfect his new shrinking machine and then turned it against the gang boss. With Madago out of the way, Capek is now the biggest crime boss alive, fully equipped to unleash his plot against the World.


The splash panel on the cover of the next issue featured Thunder Boult - the Magician Who Went to War. The issue contained the first episode of a new suicidal mission against the dreaded German Gestapo in enemy-occupied France.


A week later a new Maxwell Hawke story was introduced:


Mighty McGinty and his fighting crew are now in darkest Africa where they are attacked by a band of natives. The harder the fight, the more he likes it!


The mighty young Saxon Edmund, a.k.a. Black Axe, carried on with his ruthless war against Viking invaders of Britain.



As I explained in my introduction to this series HERE, I started it hoping perhaps it will attract the attention of BUSTER collectors with spare copies of the title and they’ll help me fill my few remaining gaps. Please, contact me via e-mail if you have copies to sell or swap and don’t mind shipping abroad because I am not in the UK. I have 25 – 30 spare copies from the early 60s and might help fill some of your gaps, so e-mail me for a list and details about condition. See my blogger profile for the address.

MY WANTS FOR BUSTER:
October 29, 1960
December 24, 1960
December 31, 1960
January 21, 1961
February 4, 1961
February 11, 1961
July 15, 1961
September 23, 961
December 30, 1961
June 20, 1964
July 4, 1964
July 11, 1964

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