The idea of Challenge
Charlie! in VALIANT was borrowed from Dare-A-Day Davy in POW!
More than that, Frank McDiarmid (the illustrator of the series) drew his
inspiration from Dare-A-Day Davy’s original artist Ken Reid.
It turns out that
Frank McDiarmid was not only instructed to ghost Mr. Reid’s style but also to
use a few of the original Dare-A-Day Davy scripts and layouts from
POW! There is nothing sensational about recycling old scripts, this happened
quite often in comics. There is also no sensation in the fact that publishers
of VALIANT used scripts created for a different company: IPC devoured Odhams in
the late 60s so technically the publishers of VALIANT owned rights to the
material published in POW! The big question here is who pocketed the fivers
that were allegedly sent to the lucky readers of VALIANT?.. :o
Great discovery I've put a link up on facebook back to this page..very strange indeed..
ReplyDeleteIf they're using the same scripts then they're also making up fake names! I wonder if they beloned to people working on Vialant or if they are just random!?
ReplyDeleteIts fun seeing the small differences...
ReplyDeletethough of course very cheeky this was done...
Great post, Irmy. As comics were produced at least 8 weeks ahead, I rather suspect that most (if not all) of the names on the Pow! Dare-A-Day Davy strip were made up by the editors or scriptwriters. The first ones would almost certainly have been fictitious. Diddlin' rascals, eh?
ReplyDeleteThat was exactly my impression!
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