One-off features probably served the same purpose as
reprints and were used to fill the space which was originally reserved for something
else.
Brain Benders in issue No. 21 was a weak prelude to Ticklish Allsorts:
Brain Benders in issue No. 21 was a weak prelude to Ticklish Allsorts:
Film Funny in issues 23 and 32 were collages consisting of classic
horror movie screenshots with added speech balloons. One or two can also be
found in the early Shiver and Shake
Holiday specials. Here’s an example from MFC No. 32:
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Film Funny has "legs", sort of. Around the same time, there was a whole series of trading cards (American, I think), which consisted of nothing but horror movie stills with "funny" captions. Wonder if that's where Monster Fun got the idea from?
ReplyDeleteAs for the puzzle page - not much to say, but it always makes me smile to see a pangolin!