The sequence of
those interesting BUSTER covers ended in June 1964. Starting from June 27th,
1964 Buster’s
Diary was all over the cover and non-humour splash panels were never used
again. BUSTER continued as a mix of humour and adventure strips for quite a while
and there was no apparent reason for reverting to the old cover design at that
stage. In fact, with the introduction of The Astounding Adventures of Charlie Peace
on June 27th, 1964 the balance tipped even more towards adventure, but the
editors probably had their reasons. Perhaps they felt that promoting BUSTER
as part-adventure paper was a disadvantage to the sales of the new adventure
comic HURRICANE that was launched in February of 1964.
Anyway, here are
the last three covers.
Judging by the
slump in the number of daily visits and comments, this series of blogposts wasn’t
a tremendous success, so I’d better get back to the usual business and MONSTER
FUN COMIC is next in line, as promised.
Apparently, the
cover galleries didn’t succeed in reaching fellow collectors
with spare copies of BUSTER to sell or swap but since they will continue their
existence on the web courtesy of Blogger and Google, I will repeat the usual mantra
one last time and maybe one day it catches the eye of the right person…
As I
explained in my introduction to this series HERE, I started it hoping perhaps
it will attract the attention of BUSTER collectors with spare copies of the
title and they’ll help me fill my few remaining gaps. Please, contact me via
e-mail if you have copies to sell or swap and don’t mind shipping abroad because
I am not in the UK. I have 25 – 30 spare copies from the early 60s and might
help fill some of your gaps, so e-mail me for a list and details about
condition. See my blogger profile for the address.
MY
WANTS FOR BUSTER:
October 29, 1960
December 24, 1960
December 31, 1960
January 21, 1961
February 4, 1961
February 11, 1961
July 15, 1961
September 23, 961
December 30, 1961
June 20, 1964
July 4, 1964
July 11, 1964
I'm sorry you didn't get any responsises for your request...
ReplyDeletehopefully 30th Century shop will come up trumps soon...
They have been nice to see...and I'm sure I'll look at these post again..
But of course can't wait for Monster fun...
Another reason may have been that the Buster artist (Nadal) complained about only getting paid for half a page on the front cover instead of a three-quarter page, like he'd been used to.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! Do you know it for a fact, or is it an assumption?
DeleteIt was meant as a speculation on a possibility, not a statement of fact, which is why I said 'may have been', but upon reading it again I can see why my phraseology is inadvertently ambiguous. It's just that can't see Fleetway paying him for more than half the page he was doing, so I'd imagine he wasn't best pleased with the cut in his income.
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