Ken Reid was known to have
sometimes been ‘text heavy’ in the strips that he scripted himself, making it
necessary for editors to cut his writing down. Below is a nice example of that.
The panel is from original Queen of the Seas artwork. I am not completely
sure, but I believe I photographed it from the original piece owned by Peter
Hansen:
The episode was
printed in Smash! No. 31 (3rd Sept., 1966). The ugly colouring ruined the
beauty of Ken’s linework, but the reason
I am showing the panel here is Captain Enoch Drip’s new speech balloon:
The Editor apparently thought Ken’s
original version was too long, or eccentric…
This is how the panel
looked in the reprint of the same episode in Buster cover-dated 8th July, 1972:
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I wouldn't be surprised if the mention of the Thunderbirds cast was why this was edited out. Another company was publishing their comics (in TV Century 21), so they wouldn't want to be seen as advertising a competitor.
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