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Hi and welcome to my blog about comics from other people’s childhood! It is dedicated primarily to British humour comics of the 60s and 70s. The reason they are not from my childhood is simply because I didn’t live in the UK back then (nor do I live there now). I knew next to nothing about them until fairly recently but since then I’ve developed a strong liking for the medium and amassed a large collection, including a number of complete or near complete sets. My intention is to use this blog as a channel for sharing my humble knowledge about different titles, favourite characters and creators as I slowly research my collection.

QUICK TIP: this blog is a sequence of posts covering one particular comic at a time. The sequence follows a certain logic, so for maximum results it is recommended that the blog is read from the oldest post up.

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Friday, December 18, 2015

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS AT SCREAM INN - PART ONE



At about this time each year I do a retrospective of Xmas episodes of my favourite characters in UK comics.  I have covered Buster, Faceache and Frankie Stein so far; you are welcome to revisit the posts by clicking on the “Christmas issues” tag in the labels column on the right.

In keeping with the fine tradition of this blog, this time I decided on Scream Inn by the excellent Brian Walker. In an unlikely event if you aren’t familiar with this brilliant feature, I covered it in detail in my SHIVER AND SHAKE series a couple of years ago. Click HERE to access the post.

Here is the first festive episode from the only X-mas number of Shiver and Shake weekly (Dec. 29th, 1973, No. 43):


In 1973 Shiver and Shake also surprised fans with a Christmas Holiday Special. Summer Specials were a norm back then but a X-mas Holiday Special was something out of the ordinary. It included this nice 4-pager of Scream Inn:




There was also a 4-page episode in SHIVER AND SHAKE  Annual 1974 that came out for the X-mas of 1973:


Part two of X-mas celebrations at Scream Inn will be up soon…

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4 comments:

  1. I always love this feature....thanks Irmantas

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  2. I remember Scream Inn very well. The strip had a very distinctive look. I wish Shiver & Shake had lasted longer than it did, but at least I was a (very) small part of it in the form of a Creepy Creation.

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  3. Blissful!

    One great thing about Brian Walker is that he was a masterful macabre artist but his non-macabre work was highly appealing, too. Are you familiar with his Old Boy strip from Whizzer and Chips, Irmantas, which especially looked great when it had a blue tint?

    I wish I had that Shiver and Shake Christmas Special.

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    1. I am familiar with Walker's Old Boy feature, Raven, although I haven't had the time to look closely at it. I think it started in the summer of 1975 and ended early in 1976. My notes say I have all but one issue of Wh&Ch from that period and I will surely be checking the strip out :)

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