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| Copyright REBELLION |
Time now for some more original art, in this instance BAD PENNY by LEO BAXENDALE, from the back page of SMASH! #156, January 25th 1969. I've scanned the first two panels as one, as they have a caption running across both of them. And, although you can enlarge the panels by clicking on them, I've repeated the last one in two bigger halves for greater visual impact. The strip has been drawn on two thin sheets of card, extended on the right-hand side, then stuck down on a thicker piece of art board. To give you all an idea of how poorly these pages were treated in storage, this one has footprints on the back, indicating that it was lying face down on the floor at some stage and walked over. (Or perhaps lay on top of a pile of art used as a step to reach something on a high shelf.) Shameful, eh?
And look at the street name in the panel below. Is this what you'd describe as a Nightmare on Elm Street?
And here's the published page as readers would have seen it back in 1969.
Got it first time you posted it.
ReplyDeleteGot it again now , TOO good to pass up on!
Wish Penny had met Minnie!
I always preferred Bad Penny, 'though they were essentially the same character. I suppose a team-up could still happen if whoever owns the copyright to Penny could work something out with DCT. Tom Paterson would be the ideal man to draw it.
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