WEEKLY OUTPUT - ROBERT NIXON, THE CHAMPION!

In the Spring of 1974 Rober Nixon was normally drawing 7 pages for COR!!, Shiver & Shake and Whoopee!, but the week when the comics with the cover date of March 30 1974 came out was special, firstly because he stepped in for Ken Reid contributing the Creepy Creation, and secondly because the issue of Shiver and Shake included an 8-page pull-out booklet of Frankie Stein, bringing Robert Nixon’s page count to 16 pages and making him that week’s champion. 

I won’t speculate if he drew all the pages in the space of a week – I don’t even know if a mere mortal would be capable of producing this quantity of quality art in such a short time, but all the pages were printed in the comics of the same week, and that’s a fact :)

 

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WEEKLY OUTPUT – REG PARLETT

Reg Parlett’s page count in IPC comics cover-dated 30^th March 1974 was 7 pages. The artist had such a natural and flowing style, that it seems almost effortless but still very appealing to the eye. The quality of the art shows no signs that he struggled drawing his pages or had to rush them in order to meet his deadlines. 

Two two-pagers in Whoopee! and Whizzer and Chips were centered around the much-overused but apparently very popular theme of poor kids vs the rich:

…while one page in Whoopee! represented the new favourite line of horror comedy:

And of course there were two pages of Billy Bunter in Valiant:

Had Buster not missed that week, the artist’s stats would have been not 7 but 10 pages. This is how Reg Parlett’s regular features in Buster looked like in the issue of the week before.  Happy Family was a reprint, so under normal circumstances Reg Parlett’s weekly output amounted to the impressive quantity of 9 pages at that time! 

Mike Lacey is next in line...

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WEEKLY OUTPUT – TERRY BAVE

Terry Bave’s page count in IPC comics cover-dated 30th March, 1974 was 7 pages. There was one in COR!!:

… two in Shiver and Shake:

.. two in Whoopee!:

… and two in Whizzer and Chips (my copies are in a bound volume and thus unscannable, so apologies for image quality):

Reg Parlett is next in line...

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WEEKLY OUTPUT – KEN REID

In the beginning of 1974 Ken Reid’s weekly output would have normally been 4 pages. However, there are only 2 pages in IPC comics cover-dated March 30th 1974 – a Wanted Poster in Whoopee! and a page of Jimmy Jinks in Scorcher.

Under normal circumstances, the other two regular pages would have been Faceache in Buster, but the paper missed that week due to industrial action, and a Creepy Creation in Shiver and Shake, but poor health and family problems prevented Ken from drawing it for the issue with that date. 

Anyway, enjoy the pages from Whoopee! and Scorcher below:

The next four posts will cover the work of IPC's heavy duty drawing machines of the time...

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