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Hi and welcome to my blog about comics from other people’s childhood! It is dedicated primarily to British humour comics of the 60s and 70s. The reason they are not from my childhood is simply because I didn’t live in the UK back then (nor do I live there now). I knew next to nothing about them until fairly recently but since then I’ve developed a strong liking for the medium and amassed a large collection, including a number of complete or near complete sets. My intention is to use this blog as a channel for sharing my humble knowledge about different titles, favourite characters and creators as I slowly research my collection.

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Sunday, June 26, 2016

GUEST APPEARANCES AT SCREAM INN – FRANKIE STEIN




When SHIVER AND SHAKE merged into WHOOPEE! in October 1974, Scream Inn and Frankie Stein were among the strips that confidently made it to the combined paper. A few weeks after the merger Frankie Stein stopped by at the spooky inn and tried to win the million quid. Brian Walker was a very good imitator and his Frankie looked very much like that by Robert Nixon. It’s a shame the printing presses used by IPC at the time often failed to present beautiful artwork decently. The episode is from WHOOPEE! AND SHIVER & SHAKE cover-dated 23 November, 1974 (No. 38). Followed by both pages of the Frankie Stein strip from that same issue, by Robert Nixon, of course.





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  1. KidJune 26, 2016 at 10:05 AM

    Can't beat a bit of Frankie. Wish Egmont (or whoever owns copyright) would revive him in a comic today.

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  2. TwoHeadedBoyJune 26, 2016 at 7:55 PM

    I think Brian Walker's incapable of doing a bad drawing! Did he ever draw Frankie again?

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    1. IrmantasJune 26, 2016 at 9:14 PM

      Oh yes, he did - he substituted Robert Nixon in Whoopee! on quite a few occasions, and he drew lots of FS in Shiver and Shake annuals and Holiday Specials - I covered most of them in my posts under the Shiver and Shake umbrella a couple of years ago :)

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