A look at the comics
cover-dated 30th March, 1974 tells us IPC kept Mike Lacey very busy
at the time. He drew at least 10 pages in COR!!,
Shiver & Shake, Whizzer and Chips and Whoopee! Scared-Stiff Sam in Whoopee! is hands-down my favourite :) I believe Mike later used the drawing of Sam wearing his protective clothing in the last panel of that week's page 1 for a pull-out poster that came with one of the later issues of Whoopee!
There are 4 more pages
in Shiver & Shake, Whizzer and Chips
and Whoopee! that I believe are also
by Mike, although the style is somewhat different. If they are indeed by him,
Mike Lacey’s stats for that week were a whopping 14 pages, but even if they
aren’t, 10 pages is still a very impressive number!
The next and final
post in this series will cover the work of that week’s champion Robert Nixon!
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Irmantas, the Scared-stiff Sam poster was posted on my blog earlier this year.
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Amazing!!!!!! also very detailed at times...loving these posts!!
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