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Just arrived at Castel Crivens, Ken Reid's Football Funnies The First Half, which all fans of the master cartoonist are sure to love. Unfortunately, any colour strips are rendered in greyscale, whereas I'd have preferred Rebellion to go the extra mile and publish them as they originally appeared. (Spot colour according to commenter McS.)
One of the things that occasionally lets these books down is errors in the biographical details of the contributors. For instance, in the back of this book it says: 'Ken... left the company (DCT) to work for Odhams Press on the new titles Smash (sic) and Wham!' Well, no, actually - he left to work specifically on Wham!, which came out two years before Smash! The latter comic wouldn't even have been thought of when Ken left D.C. Thomson to go to Odhams.
Perhaps you think such things are trivial - after all, Ken did work on Smash!, but his purpose for defecting and the sequence of events is not exactly accurate. Anyway, looking forward to The Second Half already.
