Here comes the twelfth and final
part of SPARKY Moonsters covers gallery that I started back in May earlier
this year. The final appearance of The Moonsters on the front cover of SPARKY
was in issue No. 139 (Sept 16th, 1967).
Starting from issue 140, The Moonsters
were given the back cover again, ousted from the front page by what is now perceived as the politically
incorrect version of Sparky the character. Check out front
and back covers of SPARKY issue No. 140:
The Moonsters
continued to feature on the back page of the comic until issue 199:
I think Sparky was perceived as "politically incorrect" even then. Well, let's not skirt around the issue. It was a racist caricature. A rising civil rights movement in America (which we were all aware of through the media) and a British comic showing a black character like that, on the cover no less. What were they thinking?
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