GUEST APPEARANCES AT SCREAM INN – BUMPKIN BILLIONAIRES

The filthy-rich Bumpkin Billionaires were among the least-likely candidates to show up at Scream Inn in hope to win a million. On the contrary – they worked hard every week devising crazy schemes to get rid of some of their enormous wealth they had won in the lottery in the first issue of WHOOPEE!

Nonetheless, they did appear in Scream Inn strip, but in the capacity of finance providers rather than guests of the haunted inn!

The comedy of Bumpkin Billionaires was that the family’s efforts to waste money inevitably backfired, making them even wealthier than before. That week they had to endure two disappointments – one in Scream Inn, illustrated by Brian Walker, and one in their own strip, illustrated by Mike Lacey. Both episodes are from Whoopee! issue No. 124 cover-dated 7th August, 1976. Enjoy!

THE MOONSTERS COVERS OF SPARKY - PART TEN

Here’s the 10th installment of SPARKY Moonsters front covers gallery. I still think they were the best :) 

Off-topic: in case you are curious (or annoyed) about the disappearance of the list of my favorite sites and blogs that used to show in the column on the right-hand side – I have no idea why this happened, or how to restore the list. I’ve read on the web that other people are experiencing the problem too, and that Blogger engineers are working to fix it, so I hope the list starts showing up again soon :)

GUEST APPEARANCES AT SCREAM INN – SWEENY TODDLER

The guest appearance at Scream Inn of Sweeny Toddler, the ‘orriblest kid in the World, in WHOOPEE! and SHIVER AND SHAKE cover-dated 6th December, 1975 (No. 89) was long overdue.

HERE is my article about the SHIVER AND SHAKE run of this strip, and HERE is another one about Sweeny’s return to the pages of WHOOPEE!

In this episode of Scream Inn Brian Walker even inserted some “side-jokes” in the margins - something Leo Baxendale used to do a lot when drawing Sweeny Toddler in SHIVER AND SHAKE and later in WHOOPEE!  Also, see if you can spot Snooper (a BUSTER character) hiding somewhere on these pages...

As always, here’s the character’s own strip from the same issue of the magazine. I believe Leo Baxendale had already stopped drawing the strip by then but I am unsure who the artist is -Mike Brown, or Tom Paterson, perhaps?

THE MOONSTERS COVERS OF SPARKY - PART NINE

For better or worse, there are a few more of SPARKY Moonsters covers left – issue 139 was the last one to feature them on the cover, so there are three more posts lined up after this one.