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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

MONSTER FUN ANNUAL 1982 PART TWO



The Annual contained a few nice surprises. I will start with the episode of Kid Kong by Frank McDiarmid. I can’t remember ever seeing another one by him before. The story isn’t particularly original: it’s almost Christmas and Kid has no money for Gran’s present so he takes a job with the post office. This is the third MF Annual with Kid Kong facing a cash problem before X-mas, and the second time he takes a postie’s job to solve it, but Mr. McDiarmid’s work really makes it shine:



After all the chaos and destruction, everybody’s happy in the end:


There are two episodes of Freaky Farm in this Annual, neither by the regular artist Jim Watson. In the first one Jousting Society hold a tournament on Farmer’s land. Artwork by Russel Brooke. Here is the first page:


The four-pager by Ian Knox is my favourite one:



And finally, here’s a set of The Little Monsters by Martin Baxendale who clearly took a few lessons from his Dad. There are two installments of the feature in this Annual and the other one is called The Little Monsters Down on the Farm! Make sure you click on the image below to enlarge it and have fun examining all the fine detail!




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4 comments:

  1. That Kid Kong artwork is as excellent as it is unexpected! A gem from the British comic archives - thanks for posting it.

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  2. Ian Knox is a favourite and Frank..

    Martin does a nice poster page....

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  3. There are quite a few good and interesting things in this annual - good to see that it was still inspiring the creative team five years after the weekly comic itself had stopped. A very welcome guide! Thanks.

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