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First issue
Sat.14th June 1975
Last issue
Sat. 30th Oct.1976
Merged with...
Buster
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#1 - Plate Wobbler
#2 - Freaky Spider Ring
#3 - Super Shaking Skeleton
Monster Fun Annuals
1977 - 1985
Monster Fun
comic strip
info
1st issue
strips
Art's Gallery
Badtime Bedtime
Storybook
Brainy and his
Monster Maker
Cinders
Creature Teacher
Dough Nut & Rusty
Draculass
Grizzly
Bearhug-Giant
The Invisible Monster
Kid Kong
Major Jump Horror
Hunter
March of the
Mighty Ones
Martha's Monster
Make-up
Monster Hits
Mummy's Boy
Tom Thumbscrew
X-Ray Specs
Later
additions
Frankie's Diary
Freaky Farm
Gums
The Little Monsters
Sam's Spook
S.O.S. - Save
Our Stan
Teddy Scare
Terror TV
Mad
munsters!
"Monster
Fun Comic" was Fleetway's second attempt
at a "munster" title (fun strips
themed around monsters,
spooks and ghouls). But
sadly, like Shiver & Shake
before
it the fun lasted for a very short time. It ran
for just
72 issues before it was merged with "Buster"
at the end
of October 1976...
Still, it was great fun whilst it lasted.
"Monster Fun"
introduced us to Kid Kong, Draculass, Gums
the shark,
and X-Ray Specs. Creature Teacher gaves
us plenty of
old school scares, whilst Tom Thumbscrew tortured
us to
tears. And let's not forget Martha, with
her Monster
Make-up from Mallet film studios...
With so many top strips to choose from,
picking a cover
star proved ellusive. Over the course of
the comic's run
Kid
Kong, Franke Stein, Gums, X-Ray Specs, Creature
Teacher and Terror TV all took a turn on its
coveted front
page. And
then there were The Little Monsters, who
originally appeared as a single cover panel before
they
were moved inside the comic and expanded into a
fully-fledged strip.
The race to track down a bigger readership meant
that
we had an endless parade of pull-out
posters, mini-comics
and games to make
too.
And adventure fans had one of Fleetway's
very best to
savour. March Of The Mighty Ones had man-made
monsters
rampaging the world well before "Jurassic
Park" came to
the fore...
Which brings us on the the genius of those
Badtime
Bedtime Storybooks. Each week, a crazy new
tale would
premier in the centrepages, to cut-out and
keep as a
mini-comic. The tales were brilliant. Mad
as hell. But
brilliant, none the less...
Dear
Frankie...
Editor-in-Chief
was Fleetway fave, Frankie Stein
who was
on a bit of a role at the time. He was also to
be found each
week in the then rather lengthily-titled "Whoopee!
and
Shiver & Shake"...
Annual
cover stars
1977
- Kid Kong
1978
- Kid Kong
1979 - Kid Kong
1980
- Frankie Stein
1981 - Frankie Stein
1982 - Frankie Stein
1983 - Frankie Stein
1984 - Frankie Stein
1985 - Kid Kong
