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.
Can't beat a bit of Frankie. Wish Egmont (or whoever owns copyright) would revive him in a comic today.
ReplyDeleteI think Brian Walker's incapable of doing a bad drawing! Did he ever draw Frankie again?
ReplyDeleteOh 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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