Deja Vu and reset V

We started this mini series of posts last year very much subdued with Covid at its height thinking back to what got me through the crazy era I was first young and things I most looked forward to.

The comic world isn't what it was in the nineteen seventies and eighties but it was comics that helped with that and so I decided to order a comic I loved as a boy and a new comic that appealed to me.

In time that was added to by an monthly adventure story and fortnightly football magazine taking over where Tiger, Roy of the Rovers and its ilk had left off, Commando magazines filling a bit a gap in war based adventure stories that connected with my boyish ways and more recently the nature and animal magazine Animal Planet.

At the height of comic sales in the nineteen seventies and eighties, it was common for new comics to launch and then it would be "sink or swim" if they continued  or got discontinued.

Monster Fun was one that started in 1975 but only run for some seventy three issues before it was discontinued as a stand alone title but incorporated into Buster although it kept a separate annual going until 1985.

Strangely enough through a whole series of mergers as the comics market declined the cartoon associated with it remained in regular publication until January 2000 which makes it one of longest lasting publications of the IPC/Fleetway group.

Monster Funs forte was ghostly based humour strips, aimed at children such as Gums, Kid Kong, X-Ray Specs, Mummy's Boy, Draculass, Teddy Scare, Terror TV, and Martha's Monster Make-up.

Well timed for Halloween Rebellion Publications who own the rights to the title and a good number of series decided decided to issue a new special edition in early October with new stories from a good number of those strip series.

The art style is closer to the originals although they are full colour with more density compared to those in days of newsprint.

It was brilliant.

Better still it returns in a every two months form from April 2022 so we get to have a comic very similar to one we had back then, still aimed at actual children rather than just a retro publication for adults.

That's a must if we are to raise a generation of comic readers and wean them off the forest of plastic tat covered publications that are offered to them at present.

I've got a subscription set up to ensure from next year I'll get my copies.