February is of
course the shortest month of the year; in 1964 it had 29 days and enough
Mondays for five issues of BUSTER.
All the non-humour strips shown in the
splash panels during February 1964 had already featured on BUSTER covers before, except Mighty
McGinty, the reason being that the issue of Feb. 29th, 1964 contained
the opening instalment of this new ‘punch-packed smash hit’. The scene of the
strip is set somewhere in South America. It tells the adventures of a trouble-prone
fist-swinging trio consisting of a mighty muscled Irishman and his mates. The
adventurers wander from one little town to another taking every job they can find
in hope to raise the money to start their own construction company. The strip didn’t
last long and ended in October of that same year.
I hear you asking:
what, five issues and not one cover featured Maxwell Hawke?! True, Maxwell
Hawke was the big BUSTER star at the time and there were only two months when
he did not appear on the front cover. Maxwell Hawke and the Knell of Doom
ended in the last issue of February and a new story started in March, so he
didn’t take long to return to the spotlight, as you will see in the next post.
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