Monster Fun brought us some great characters when it was launched in 1975. Amongst others Ken Reid started out on another of his brilliant horror comics, this time about a girl called Martha who was the star of the strip Martha's Monster Make-Up! However, with strips like this one sometimes you can't help but wonder how they came across the item such as Martha's make-up in the first place! Well, here is Martha's 'Fleetway First'...
Mike Lacey's X-Ray Specs had a very similar beginning, and only appeared one page before Martha! Here it is:
X-Ray Specs was much more popular than Martha, and he survived in Buster comic right up until the very last issue, where Jack Edward Oliver sent him off with a single panel, on that famous back page.
4 comments:
I've been after that last issue of Buster ever since hearing about that back page - nice that they even drew the optician the same way!
Jack was spot on he only asked Ray to try them...very funny...
@TwoHeadedBoy - I was lucky enough to get that last Busterfir about £2! Somebody had put it on eBay under the name "Old Buster Comic", and on that day I just happened to be searching that phrase!
@Peter - I really loved that last page, a really nice way to send off the characters!
And you'll even notice that in both the first appearence of X-Ray Specs and the last one the optician is called I. Squint!
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