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.
