Faceache was Ken Reid’s
longest running strip that began in the first issue of JET cover-dated 1 May
1971, and ended nearly 17 years later in BUSTER, cover-dated 14 March 1987.
After Ken’s death the strip was continued by others, but I am talking
about the run illustrated by the original artist only.
In
the period between 1971 and 1987 Ken Reid drew as many as 695 pages of Faceache’s
adventures in the weekly comics. The majority were self-contained stories, but
some tales continued for two weeks or more, and I plan to start a long string
of posts covering every single one of them, with synopsis of the plot,
illustrated with a few panels from each. The stories were between 2 and as many
as 6 weeks in length, and I have counted 34 of them, the first one starting in
BUSTER AND MONSTER FUN of 14 Jan., 1978, and the last one (34th) ending in BUSTER AND JACKPOT of 26 June 1982. Come back soon for the first one!
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And while you are here, and
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two-volume set of Ken’s strips in WHAM!, SMASH! and POW! comics of the ‘60s.
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