KEN REID'S LAST EVER FRANKIE STEIN...

Over on the KAZOOP!! blog, there's a couple of panels from

KEN REID's last ever FRANKIE STEIN strip, drawn 17 years

after his last page of the same character in WHAM! back in 1967.

The six page strip appeared in the MONSTER FUN Annual for

1985 (issued in '84), and it's odd to think that many readers, more

used to Frankie  from his 1970s revival as drawn by ROBERT

NIXON, may well have been disappointed by Ken's version

and hankered after what they saw as the 'real' Frankie.

Sadly, Ken's art was no longer as vital and spontaneous as

it had once been, so it's even possible that those brought up on his

original incarnation may have thought the same thing.  However, Ken

Reid at his 'worst' is still better than many other artists at their best, so

I thought it was worthwhile showing his final Frankie strip for anyone

who may not have been aware of it before.  In fact, the first I knew

of it was when I read about it over on Kazoop!!, to whom we

must be grateful for supplying these scans.  Thanks, Irmy!

And here's the cover of the Annual itself...

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