What’s Old: A bit of a Cheeky Monster Fun #1 Free Gift Farrago
In our “Another chance to see” slot this week, a pair of premier issues from IPC/Fleetway’s comedy line, each with their original free gift! 1975’s Monster Fun #1 introduced the world to ‘Kid Kong’, ‘X-Ray Specs’, ‘Martha’s Monster Make-Up’, ‘Draculass’, ‘Tom Thumbscrew, Torturer’s Apprentice’, and more. This copy is an attractive FN, with the ‘Badtime Bedtime Story’ supplement and the Plate Wobbler Free Gift (VF), on sale at £100. Cheeky #1, from a couple of years later, is only Fair, with significant tears to the back cover and inside back page. Our eponymous hero’s comic co-starred ‘The Six-Million-Dollar Gran’, politically-incorrect ‘Mustapha Mi££ion’, token adventure strip ‘Space Family Robinson’ (yet another version), and ‘Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner’, among others. Despite its modest grade, all pages are present and readable, and the free gift – ‘Red Jet Rattler’ – in excellent condition, VF/NM. On sale at £30.