Further to my previous post where I showed the cover of
BUSTER No. 1,000, let’s take a look at two other landmark numbers of the comic.
BUSTER No. 500 can be easily identified by simply
counting the weeks in the calendar because the first industrial action to
affect regular weekly publication schedule didn’t occur until 1970. Here is the cover of issue
500:
… and this is what BUSTER looked like a thousand issues later, behold the cover of No. 1,500:
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Ah, Buster! Now there was a REAL comic. Hard to believe it's now been gone for 16 years. If I ever win the Lottery, it'll be making a comeback.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing Buster's strip was the only feature from issue 500 that survived to number 1500.
ReplyDeleteI checked and you are absolutely right! I much prefer the lineup in No. 500 :) Moreover, Buster the character had also changed nearly beyond recognition by then.
Deleteim more fond of the late 70s & 80s buster im not big into the glut of adventure strips they had in the 60s, i know there was quite a few in the 70s though
ReplyDeleteSlightly off topic, but I read The Beano no. 2000 for the first time since Nov 1980 in British Library recently. I remember how originally I found it boring, what with reminiscences of Jonah and Big Eggo, etc who I'd never heard of. Then again I was only seven! Didn’t look at it that way the other week; I must have acquired taste in comics since!
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