Chase comics didn’t continuously agonize with Christmas episodes but this pains of Scorcher made the agonize for just a few of its characters. No snow on the logo, but a great festive conceal by Mike Western.
Internal, footballing brothers Jack and Jimmy (which had started off as two separate tales in Rating and Shout) concluded their most recent fable with preparations for Christmas. Art by Barrie Mitchell…
Billy’s Boots had been in Scorcher since pains 1 in 1970 (watch here) and would proceed to be the comic’s most winning strip. It later moved to Tiger when the 2 comics merged. That you just might want to learn extra about the assortment on this faded weblog put up:
https://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/04/final-destiny-of-billys-boots.html
Manufacture no longer neglect that a Billy’s Boots assortment of the earliest tales is coming in February from Revolt!
Lags Eleven became once one other standard strip, but by no system a fave of mine I must admit. Art by Douglas Maxted…
One of the best factor about Scorcher for me is that it gave work to Ken Reid. Here is Jimmy Jinks which though no longer within the equal league as his strips from the 1950s and 1960s is silent of an awfully high identical outdated.
There’ll be one other Christmas comic from the Seventies quickly!
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