CONTENTS: Shake (2 episodes by Terry Bave), Horrornation Street (a 3-pager by Tom Williams), Holiday Haunts (gags by Jack Clayton), Creepy Car (by Jim Crocker), Grimly Feendish (a 3-pager by Paul Ailey, signed), The Shake Squad by Leo Baxendale (3 reprints of The Lion Lot from LION comic), Pest of the West (5 reprints from WHAM!), Freddie Fang the Werewolf Cub (4 reprints from COR!! by Reg Parlett), The Desert Fox (a 2-pager in full colour by Terry Bave), Puzzle-Time (by Tony Goffe), The Duke’s Spook, Sports School (by Jim Watson), Lolly Pop (a 3-pager), Bad Penny (2 reprints from SMASH! by Leo Baxendale), Webster, The Ghost Train Game in full colour on the centrespread, Moana Lisa (a new episode by Barrie Applieby), The Haunts of Headless Harry (by Mike Lacey), Frankie Stein (a 3-pager by the artist whose name I don’t know), The Fixer (new episode by Barrie Appleby), Sweeny Toddler (two pages in full colour by Paul Ailey), Tough Nutt and Softy Centre (a 3-pager by Norman Mansbridge), Shivery Puzzles to Shake-Up Those Brains (2 pages of puzzles by Les Barton), Mirth Shakers (two pages of gags by Tony Goffe), Ghouldilocks (2-pager by Barrie Appleby), Shiver (on the back page in full colour by Terry Bave).
Two more
reprints were added to the package this time, both from old Power Comics: Pest
of the West was from WHAM! and Bad Penny from SMASH!
Mike Lacey
contributed a nice episode of The Haunts of Headless Harry – a strip
that had enjoyed a brief run in the revamped SMASH! in the early seventies so I
am not sure if it was a reprint or new material:
Speaking of
new strips, Barrie Appleby was once again in charge of Moana Lisa, Ghouldilocks
and The
Fixer. The three-page episode of Frankie Stein was by the same unknown
artist who illustrated it in the 1977 Holiday Special. In this edition
Professor Cube takes Frankie to the seaside hoping that something dreadful will
happen to him there. And happen it does but it’s not Frankie who’s the victim:
Grimly
Feendish gets an idea to dress as a dangerous
man-eating shark and scare everybody off the beach so that his gang can pinch
all the rich pickings left behind by the panicked holiday makers. The plan
works well but look what happens as the gang try to make their escape by sea:
The Grimly
Feendish set wasn’t Paul Ailey’s only contribution to the 1978
SH&SH Holiday Special. He also illustrated this episode of Sweeny
Toddler:
Generally
speaking, there is nothing very interesting to note about this edition. It was an
unremarkable package with seaside holidays as the dominant theme. One thing
that caught my eye is the large number of page-wide last panels that different
artists drew in their various strips:
That Grimly Feendish strip is the only time (I think) I've ever seen Paul Ailey sign his work.
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