SERIALISED FACEACHE STORIES – PART 17: THE SNOW BEAST

The first Faceache story arc of 1980 was three weeks long and was printed in BUSTER issues cover-dated 1st, 8th and 15th March, 1980.

Mr. Snipe’s class are off to the moors to photograph animals’ footprints. Faceache has an idea to scrunge into all sorts of whacky creatures and fool Mr. Snipe by taking snapshots of his own footprints. 

All goes well until Faceache comes across something strange:

…He follows the tracks to try to get a photograph of the creature. Suddenly a fiendish monstrosity comes charging a Faceache...

It turns out that the monster is an electronic robot operated by a kid: 

Faceache tries to comfort the sobbing lad by volunteering to stand-in for his robot till the filming is over. He demonstrates his scrunging talent to the boy who runs away screaming: 

Faceache has always fancied himself as an actor, so he decides he’ll find the film set and act as the Snow Beast. He walks on to the set without even realising it. He spots some kid and asks him about the whereabouts of the film unit: 

It turns out that it is not a kid but a dummy stuffed with TNT. According to the script, it is to send the fiendish creature to its doom. Film director detonates the bomb and Faceache goes flying into the air with a boom:

…A week later he sees himself on screen and finds it very surprising because he didn’t realise he was being filmed...

 

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WHOOPEE! 1978 CUT-OUT X-MAS CARDS – PART TWO

Here is the second batch of 1978 WHOOPEE! pull-out X-mas cards. Merry Christmas!

 

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WHOOPEE! 1978 CUT-OUT X-MAS CARDS – PART ONE

If you enjoyed my previous two posts with 1979 WHOOPEE! pull-out Christmas labels, you might like the next two featuring the pull-out X-mas cards offered to the readers of WHOOPEE! in 1978.

There were 10 cards all in all, and they were printed in WHOOPEE! issues cover-dated 18th and 25th November and 2nd December 1978. WHOOPEE! was affected by industrial action in December 1978 and missed three weeks after Dec. 2nd, so it was nice of the editors to supply the young readers with the nice set of cards well beforehand. Here are the first six, and four more will follow soon. Enjoy!

 

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WHOOPEE! 1979 CUT-OUT X-MAS LABELS

One of the things that made IPC comics different from those of their competitors was the posters, mini-booklets and other fun pull-outs. In 1979 Whoopee! celebrated X-mas by offering cut-out labels featuring its big stars in the three issues cover-dated 8th, 15th and 22nd of December. Here are the first three pages. I will save the remaining two for the next post.

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Readers must have loved the various extras because they are often missing in the comics offered on auction sites. When building my Whoopee! collection, I wanted all of my copies to be complete, and although the comic is not too difficult to find, it took me quite some time to get hold of everything with nothing missing (for some reason, a 1979 February issue with Supermum pull-out booklet was particularly hard to find). Whoopee! is my favourite IPC comic and I still plan to cover it in detail at some point, but until I get round to this ambitious quest, I might do a series of year-by-year accounts of the various Whoopee! pull-outs next year.

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