An additional benefit
of being the publisher of the Power Pack of Ken Reid is that people are
contacting me with details of Reid-related items in their collections. Some time
ago I received an email from Patrick Herman who found photocopies of a few complete
Fudge and Speck stories printed in the Manchester Evening News.
I have all the Fudge
annuals published in the ‘40s and ‘50s by University of London Press as well as
both Savoy reprint books published in 1981. The stories that Patrick has found
while cleaning his attic are Fudge and the Micromen, Speck’s Inventions, Fudge
and the Enchanted Island, Speck’s Fossil Hunt, plus two untitled adventures of
Fudge, and none are included in the collected editions, so it’s great to see
those forgotten fantasy tales from the early years of Ken’s career that appear to
have been hugely popular back in the day.
Below are images of four
beautiful covers of the annuals from University of London Press, followed by
scans of a few pages with clippings of Fudge and the Micromen that Patrick has posted
to me.
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