*Humour Comics: Launched in 1975, Monster Fun attempted to mine the ‘spooky humour’ vein established by IPC/Fleetway’s earlier Shiver & Shake, with most of the strips being humourous twists on popular horror tropes – King Kong, Frankenstein, Dracula, Jaws and so on. With Wham! and Shiver & Shake alumnus Frankie Stein being drafted as figurehead editor, the series starred ‘Draculass’, ‘Kid Kong’, ‘Martha’s Monster Make-Up’, ‘Teddy Scare’, ‘X-Ray Specs’ and the original Pathetic Shark, ‘Gums’, who would be a man-eating terror of the ocean – if only he could find his false teeth! One exception to the theme was ‘Mummy’s Boy’ where the only horror on display appeared to be psychological torture, as a boy of indeterminate age was still dressed in baby clothes by his over-protective mother. Okay, it was played for laughs, but still… yeucch. Although Monster Fun faltered after 73 issues, a little over a year after launching, it had enough strong features that fully half its line-up moved into Buster, rather than the usual token one or two strips. We have 40 issues newly listed, filling many gaps in our inventory, commencing with #4 and ending with that final issue, #73.
PICTURED: MONSTER FUN #73 FN £12 FINAL ISSUE