CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: SCREAM! COVER GALLERY - PART THREE (OR 2001: A SCREAM! ODYSSEY)...

Sunday, 19 April 2015

SCREAM! COVER GALLERY - PART THREE (OR 2001: A SCREAM! ODYSSEY)...

Are you of a nervous disposition? Do you scare easily? Are you always looking behind you at the slightest noise? Then lean forward and listen closely - I've got something to say to you. Now, I don't want you to be alarmed, but...

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Okay, now that I've got your attention (don't worry, I'll wait 'til you come down off the ceiling), I just wanted to say that, with this instalment, we've now completed our gallery of all 15 issues of SCREAM!, first published over 30 years ago by IPC MAGAZINES.

So - I'll leave you to it then.

Unfortunately, because there was no issue #16, the fourth part
of the above poster was never published (as far as I know)

And just when you thought it was safe to look under the bed, here are all 5 covers to the Holiday Specials. Right, off to the bathroom cabinet with you and have your tranquilizers. Sleep tight - and ignore the tapping on your window - you don't want to know what's out there, believe me. You really don't.

WooooOOOOooooOOOOooooo!!!

3 comments:

John Pitt said...: Brilliant gallery, Kid. Looking back now, I only had the first special, don't remember seeing any of the other four.
They (IPC) really should have put part 4 of "Monsters of the Deep" on the back of one of the Eagles.
Was there ever a Scream annual?; 19 April 2015 at 12:38
Anonymous said...: I assume "Holiday Special" means a Summer special, does it ? It doesn't actually say what holiday or what year.; 19 April 2015 at 12:48
Kid said...: No, there was never a Scream! Annual, JP. I'm surprised they never put one out, as both Thunder and Jet had Annuals (3 in Thunder's case) and they only lasted 22 issues each.

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'Summer' and 'Holiday' were interchangeable. CJ, although I'm not sure when the latter came to be used more than the former. Perhaps it was so the mag didn't look out of place on the newsagent shelves in the middle of winter, if it hadn't sold in the summer. I don't think any Specials ever carried the date on the cover.; 19 April 2015 at 13:51

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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