I like it when characters make guest appearances in
other features. I may be mistaken, but Scream
Inn may very well be the champion in this category, at least as far as IPC
comics are concerned. The general setting of the strip with Innkeeper welcoming
a fresh guest every week offered a perfect frame for including virtually
anybody and anything into the story.
A quick look through my notes tells me there were at
least 13 episodes with such guest appearances, so I thought it might be fun to
do a series of blogposts and show them all! I will start it in a few days, but
until then here’s a nice exchange of visits between two Whoopee! star characters – Scared-Stiff Sam and Frankie
Stein from the issue of Whoopee!
& Shiver and Shake cover-dated 5th April, 1975:
Strangely, I was never really into Scream Inn at the time, but it looks far more interesting to me now. I think you showed this before, but quality is always worth repeating.
ReplyDeleteI did a series of 3 posts on the Shiver and Shake run of Scream Inn when I covered the title in detail a couple of years ago. Scream Inn is easily one of my favourite features in IPC comics, if not the most favourite one!
DeleteOh, fantastic, Timothy Tester and Toy Boy stopping at Scream Inn!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I was aware of any of the strips featured here. Great artwork on Frankie and Sam.
Great post, too!
It is interesting that Robert Nixon drew Sam's strip that week instead of the usual artist Mike Lacey.
DeleteI always get a little excited when I see a character appear in a different strip - always a little bit of fun that makes me smile. I also found it funny when DC Thomson and Fleetway/IPC would do "cameos" - e.g. Dennis the Menace in Buster. Not common, but funny to see
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