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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.

Copyright of all images and quotations used here is with their respective owners. Any such copyrighted material is used exclusively for educational purposes and will be removed at first notice. All other text copyright Irmantas P.



Friday, January 3, 2020

SERIALISED FACEACHE STORIES – PART 17: THE SNOW BEAST



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 © Rebellion Publishing Ltd

I am celebrating Ken's 100th birthday by offering free prints of his original artwork with every purchase of THE POWER PACK books! Press here and claim your copies now!


Friday, December 27, 2019

THE MOONSTERS ON SPARKY BACK COVERS – PART 3


Here are the next eleven SPARKY back covers featuring The Moonsters by Bill Ritchie. Click on the images to enlarge.

SPARKY No. 34 was the last issue before the strip was moved to the front cover of the comic, where it remained for 105 weeks. You can find the complete 12-part gallery of those front covers under Moonsters Covers Gallery label in the column on the right. 











Images are © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd.

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

WHOOPEE! 1978 CUT-OUT X-MAS CARDS – PART TWO



Here is the second batch of 1978 WHOOPEE! pull-out X-mas cards. Merry Christmas!





Characters are © Rebellion Publishing Ltd

I am celebrating the 100th birthday of KEN REID by offering free prints of his original artwork with every purchase of THE POWER PACK books! Press here and claim your copies now!



Monday, December 23, 2019

WHOOPEE! 1978 CUT-OUT X-MAS CARDS – PART ONE



If you enjoyed my previous two posts with 1979 WHOOPEE! pull-out Christmas labels, you might like the next two featuring the pull-out X-mas cards offered to the readers of WHOOPEE! in 1978.


There were 10 cards all in all, and they were printed in WHOOPEE! issues cover-dated 18th and 25th November and 2nd December 1978. WHOOPEE! was affected by industrial action in December 1978 and missed three weeks after Dec. 2nd, so it was nice of the editors to supply the young readers with the nice set of cards well beforehand. Here are the first six, and four more will follow soon. Enjoy!







Characters are © Rebellion Publishing Ltd


I am celebrating the 100th birthday of KEN REID by offering free prints of his original artwork with every purchase of THE POWER PACK books! Press here and claim your copies now!