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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.

QUICK TIP: this blog is a sequence of posts covering one particular comic at a time. The sequence follows a certain logic, so for maximum results it is recommended that the blog is read from the oldest post up.

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Showing posts with label Stoneage Brit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stoneage Brit. Show all posts

Sunday, November 16, 2014

REPRINTS IN MONSTER FUN COMIC



MONSTER FUN COMIC wasn’t big on reprints but it still included a few that probably served as space fillers when artists failed to deliver their weekly strips on time.

The Robot Maker was a short-lived strip in the early issues of COR!! illustrated by Frank McDiarmid in his version of Ken Reid’s style. Only one episode was reprinted in MFC No. 47 where it substituted Teddy Scare which failed to appear that week.



Stoneage Brit Ancient Nit was another reprint from COR!! It made a surprise one-off appearance in MFC No. 40 where it was introduced as a Fave Funster from the Holiday Special:


The same goes for Sam’s Spook: the caption above the first episode of the strip in MFC suggests that many readers wrote in asking to see more of the strip after it was (re)printed in the first MFC Holiday Special. The original run of Sam’s Spook appeared in SMASH! in 1970 - 1971 where it was illustrated by Leo Baxendale. Reprints of Sam’s Spook can be found in MFC issues 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 38 and 46. Originally it was a b/w strip but two episodes in MFC Nos. 24 and 34 were couloured in:


Hairy only made one appearance in MFC No. 7. I am unsure if it was a reprint and if it was one, I don’t know where from. Can anyone help?


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Thursday, April 26, 2012

A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: STONEAGE BRIT


Stoneage Brit Ancient Nit was a short-lived series in the vein of the Flintstones telling adventures of a little pre-historic kid. Weekly antics involved mammoths, dinosaurs, etc. Stoneage Brit had an enemy named Ug who was an ape-like club-wielding brute.  The feature was quite similar to Glugg - a strip that appeared in WHAM! in the 60s. One of the things that Stoneage Brit had in common with Glugg was his turn for innovation and invention

From COR!! dated 15th August, 1970 (No. 11)

The artwork was rather crude – perhaps appropriately for a strip about pre-historic times.  Stoneage Brit Ancient Nit lasted until 7th November, 1970 (issue No. 23) and missed a couple of weeks towards the end of its modest run (it did not appear on 26th September, 1970 and 10th October, 1970 (issue Nos. 17 and 19)). It was hardly missed by many when it disappeared from the pages of COR!!

Thanks to Niblet who referred me to the appropriate post on another blog (see comments below), I can now add that the illustrator was Tony Goffe.

From COR!! dated 5th September, 1970 (No. 14)

And now I’ll take a deep breath before the next batch of three or four posts that I plan to devote to one of the most exciting COR!! strips - Kid Chameleon