| Element | Eventually published in | Published as | Notes |
| Tuesday - Boxing Day | Cheeky Weekly 29 December 1979 | Wednesday | As a consequence of appearing a year later than intended, this page has been shunted forward a day from Tuesday to Wednesday (Boxing Day in 1979). Title panel replaced (by inserting a new second panel and shifting the original second panel to the left - sneaky!). This delayed appearance by Spiv is the final one he'll make in Cheeky Weekly (the final Spiv joke to be written appeared in the 30 June 1979 comic). Calculator's dialogue has been changed as this page would have led to the Calculator Kid strip (Tub followed Wednesday in the 29 December 1979 issue). Foot of page resized. |
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid |
| Element | Eventually published in | Published as | Notes |
| Calculator Kid | Cheeky Annual 1980, page 114 | Calculator Kid | The large amount of blank space surrounding the strip is evidence that it was intended for a page in the weekly comic. Fortunately, no attempt has been made to resize the artwork to better fit the proportions of the annual page, allowing us to enjoy Terry Bave's original page design.. Strangely, this Christmas story was placed in the November section of the annual. As I didn't want to damage my annual by scanning it, my thanks to the scanner of the Calculator Kid page featured here. |
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| Art: Terry Bave |
Cheeky Weekly's lost 30 December 1978 issue - Reconstructed! Part 4
Love the white shadow of Cheeky and posh Claude...really impressed with Frank's work.deserves a celebration his art tecniques and style..
ReplyDeleteYep, Frank is one of the greats.
DeleteAre the presents in the corners of several panels merely decorative, or do they serve an adhesive function? It’d make sense if the material had been in a “To be used later” folder for months with the corners curling up. I realise Terry Bave usually decorated his artwork in this way at Christmastide, and common sense suggests they’d have used some kind of glue. A little dab’d have done them…
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that the presents were included in the original artwork (i.e. drawn directly onto the page) as part of Terry's customary Christmas embellishments which you mention.
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