The first Faceache story arc of 1980 was
three weeks long and was printed in BUSTER issues cover-dated 1st, 8th and 15th
March, 1980.
Mr.
Snipe’s class are off to the moors to photograph animals’ footprints. Faceache
has an idea to scrunge into all sorts of whacky creatures and fool Mr. Snipe by
taking snapshots of his own footprints.
All goes well until Faceache comes
across something strange:
…He
follows the tracks to try to get a photograph of the creature. Suddenly a
fiendish monstrosity comes charging a Faceache...
It
turns out that the monster is an electronic robot operated by a kid:
Faceache
tries to comfort the sobbing lad by volunteering to stand-in for his
robot till the filming is over. He demonstrates his scrunging talent to the boy
who runs away screaming:
Faceache
has always fancied himself as an actor, so he decides he’ll find the film set
and act as the Snow Beast. He walks on to the set without even realising it. He spots some kid and asks him about the whereabouts of the film unit:
It
turns out that it is not a kid but a dummy stuffed with TNT. According to the
script, it is to send the fiendish creature to its doom. Film director
detonates the bomb and Faceache goes flying into the air with a boom:
…A week
later he sees himself on screen and finds it very surprising because he didn’t
realise he was being filmed...
Characters are
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