CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS AT SCREAM INN - PART ONE

At about this time each year I do a retrospective of Xmas episodes of my favourite characters in UK comics.  I have covered Buster, Faceache and Frankie Stein so far; you are welcome to revisit the posts by clicking on the “Christmas issues” tag in the labels column on the right.

In keeping with the fine tradition of this blog, this time I decided on Scream Inn by the excellent Brian Walker. In an unlikely event if you aren’t familiar with this brilliant feature, I covered it in detail in my SHIVER AND SHAKE series a couple of years ago. Click HERE to access the post.

Here is the first festive episode from the only X-mas number of Shiver and Shake weekly (Dec. 29th, 1973, No. 43):

In 1973 Shiver and Shake also surprised fans with a Christmas Holiday Special. Summer Specials were a norm back then but a X-mas Holiday Special was something out of the ordinary. It included this nice 4-pager of Scream Inn:

There was also a 4-page episode in SHIVER AND SHAKE  Annual 1974 that came out for the X-mas of 1973:

Part two of X-mas celebrations at Scream Inn will be up soon…

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SPARKY CHRISTMAS COVERS GALLERY - PART TWO

Here’s part two of the complete gallery of SPARKY X-mas covers, years 1972 – 1976:

Bill Ritchie supplied two festive covers in 1973. One was of the wraparound kind and graced the X-mas issue “proper”, with the holiday season theme featured in the majority of the strips inside:

A week later the festive cover was the only reference to Christmas in the whole comic:

Here are the remaining three Christmas numbers:

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