Sparky Top 5 `Fun`, Top 3 `Adventure`
Posted: 20 Apr 2015, 14:34
`SPARKY` Top 5 `Fun`, Top 3 `Adventure`
If any fans of `Sparky` comic would care to let me know their favourite’s –here’s the thread to do it!
Though I have titled the thread a Top 5 for `Fun` strips and top 3 for `adventure` it’s not a hard-set rule! If you can only think of one of each- just put that! Obviously for folks such as RAVEN, they read the comic when virtually all `adventure` strips were ceasing! In fact, after August 1975 only repeats of “Mr Bubbles” and “Invisible Dick” represented this genre of strip!
Just put down what you can!
My favourite `fun` strips have to be headed by `I. Spy` which from 1969 to close of 1971 was just superb! Even Odham’s comic (“POW”) creation `The Cloak` did not compare for me! The Cloak himself was great-but the stories just did not match up to the utter genius from the mind of Peter Clark on those amazing `I.Spy` stories!
Second place goes to the fantastically inventive “Puss and Boots” (1969-1977) John Geering’s art and the ever spralling anarchic storylines have made “Puss and Boots” by major consensus in the world of fun comics, Sparky’s best known fun strip! A true gem!
Third for me has to be the surrealistic delight of “Dreamy Dave and Dozy Dora” (1965-68) It did run out of steam somewhat by 1968 but had been so inventive!
Fourth-is a strip that I never originally read in my original time of buying Sparky as by May 1971 I had to prepare for leaving School etc and comic’s were `child’s` pastime’s back then! However- on getting together my full collection over recent years I have been delighted by the “Thingummy” (1974-77) strip which is as funny a strip I have read in a long time of comic enjoyment!
Fifth rated `Fun` strip is the rather less well known “Helpful Henry” (1969) only running about 31 issues, this was a real delight for me and I well recall looking forward each week to `Henry` Hugh Morren’s artwork really worked well here, and the plotting of many episodes was very clever indeed!
Favourite `Adventure` strips are topped by “Willy the Woeful Wizard” (1966-67) which was so surreal and cerebral with sly drug references and alluding to popular songs etc! The self contained stories were just amazing and Bill Wainwearing’s art is the best I have ever encountered in a `fun` comic!
Second has to be “Mr Bubbles” (1969-75) especially it’s last couple of years when the stories really were so inventive! It suffered a little from having so many artists rotating duties on it-but still a highlight for me!
Third would be a reprint- “Lonely Lad of Blue lagoon”(1967-68) and mostly for the last three months of the strip where `Ken` is trapped underground (On the island he was stranded on) in a wonderfully drawn (by Bill Holdroyd) scenario of vast volcanic caverns populated by huge Spiders, crabs, Rats and living seaweed!! Superb!
If any fans of `Sparky` comic would care to let me know their favourite’s –here’s the thread to do it!
Though I have titled the thread a Top 5 for `Fun` strips and top 3 for `adventure` it’s not a hard-set rule! If you can only think of one of each- just put that! Obviously for folks such as RAVEN, they read the comic when virtually all `adventure` strips were ceasing! In fact, after August 1975 only repeats of “Mr Bubbles” and “Invisible Dick” represented this genre of strip!
Just put down what you can!
My favourite `fun` strips have to be headed by `I. Spy` which from 1969 to close of 1971 was just superb! Even Odham’s comic (“POW”) creation `The Cloak` did not compare for me! The Cloak himself was great-but the stories just did not match up to the utter genius from the mind of Peter Clark on those amazing `I.Spy` stories!
Second place goes to the fantastically inventive “Puss and Boots” (1969-1977) John Geering’s art and the ever spralling anarchic storylines have made “Puss and Boots” by major consensus in the world of fun comics, Sparky’s best known fun strip! A true gem!
Third for me has to be the surrealistic delight of “Dreamy Dave and Dozy Dora” (1965-68) It did run out of steam somewhat by 1968 but had been so inventive!
Fourth-is a strip that I never originally read in my original time of buying Sparky as by May 1971 I had to prepare for leaving School etc and comic’s were `child’s` pastime’s back then! However- on getting together my full collection over recent years I have been delighted by the “Thingummy” (1974-77) strip which is as funny a strip I have read in a long time of comic enjoyment!
Fifth rated `Fun` strip is the rather less well known “Helpful Henry” (1969) only running about 31 issues, this was a real delight for me and I well recall looking forward each week to `Henry` Hugh Morren’s artwork really worked well here, and the plotting of many episodes was very clever indeed!
Favourite `Adventure` strips are topped by “Willy the Woeful Wizard” (1966-67) which was so surreal and cerebral with sly drug references and alluding to popular songs etc! The self contained stories were just amazing and Bill Wainwearing’s art is the best I have ever encountered in a `fun` comic!
Second has to be “Mr Bubbles” (1969-75) especially it’s last couple of years when the stories really were so inventive! It suffered a little from having so many artists rotating duties on it-but still a highlight for me!
Third would be a reprint- “Lonely Lad of Blue lagoon”(1967-68) and mostly for the last three months of the strip where `Ken` is trapped underground (On the island he was stranded on) in a wonderfully drawn (by Bill Holdroyd) scenario of vast volcanic caverns populated by huge Spiders, crabs, Rats and living seaweed!! Superb!