NAME-THE-INNKEEPER COMPETITION

Here’s an interesting piece of trivia about Scream Inn feature covered in my recent series of X-mas episodes that I thought I might share with you today. Although most if not all Scream Inn spooks had names, this wasn’t the case with Innkeeper, their fiendish boss. It turns out the Editor once had an idea to name him too and asked readers for suggestions. Having had a quick look through my WHOOPEE! collection, I failed to identify the issue where the Editor announced the competition, but results were printed in the number  cover-dated 6th December, 1975. I can’t recall coming across him being referred to as anything else than Innkeeper in the strip though. Another case of “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”, perhaps? :)

  

 

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