Faceache Vol 1 : The First Hundred Scrunges by Ken Reid First Edition Mint

Faceache Vol 1 : The First Hundred Scrunges by Ken Reid

Hilarious face-changing adventures by one of the greats of British comics!

A collection of humorous one panel cartoons from the 1970s which appeared in the kid’s comic magazine Jet (later on known as Jet and Buster), whose protagonist is the aforementioned Faceache. In the original he goes by a different name, Ricky Rubberneck, but like many ideas in pilot episodes, it was soon discarded, and afterwards everyone (even his own father) referred to him as Faceache.
The main character gained his moniker by his bizarre ability to reshape his face and parts of his skeletal structure to create different bizarre shapes and slightly change his height. He gets into ridiculous situations that require him to “scrunge” his face up in a grotesque manner. Most of them come to bad end for our hero and he ends up shot at, beat up, set on fire, chased by mobs, and so on. Only to start it all over again next week.

Includes introductions by Anthony Reid and comics legend Alan Moore.  This is the first collection of this long lost classic from the hugely popular and long running Buster comic.  This is a key strip in the history of British comics, being one of the very few home-grown superheroes to become popular in the weekly comics world of war and humour comics.

Hardcover, published without a dust jacket

112 pages

Dimensions 11 by 8 inches

Publication Date November 30, 2017