BUSTER COVERS GALLERY - PART 9

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.