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Hard as it is for me to believe (and perhaps for you to care), it's around 50 years since I last saw or held this FRANKENSTEIN Comic Album, which I first read in primary school (the annexe huts I think) during a break back in 1967 or '68. Stop and think about that for a moment - 50 years, maybe 51. Yet when I received this 'replacement' this afternoon, the decades rolled away as if they'd never happened, and I was once again a young boy with nary a care in the world except for what I'd get for my birthday or Christmas.
I say 'replacement' in inverted commas, 'cos the fact is that I never owned this publication myself - it belonged to a classmate with whom I'd no doubt swapped one of my comics or annuals for the duration of our break before swapping back again. Don't ask me what publication I lent to him -or even who he was - because I can no longer recall, but I still remember some of the images from this album even 50 years later. Amazing, eh? Sometimes images make such an indelible impression that they resurface fully-blown in our memory banks with only the slightest reminder to prompt them.
The school where I first (and last) saw this book was demolished over four years ago (having not long celebrated its own half-century), but just like this book, it yet survives in the 'filing cabinet' of my mind (and in extensive photos I took prior to demolition). Unfortunately, I can't open the book wide enough to scan without risking cracking the spine, so I can show no internal images, alas - you'll have to be content with the cover - but what a cover it is, eh?
In the same package as the above album were also the two FRANKIE STEIN annuals from the '70s. I already have them, but the ones I received today are superior condition copies. (And when I say 'copies' I don't mean facsimiles - they're the original ones.) So, just because the covers are by the mighty ROBERT NIXON, I decided to show them in this post too. Frankenstein and Frankie Stein together - what could be more apt?
Enjoy.
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| The back cover is the same as the front, so no point repeating it |
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