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Willy the Kid
Anyone out there know anything about the third Willy the Kid book, produced by Leo Baxendale in the seventies. I am lucky enough to own the first two but have never had a sniff of the third. Does it actually exist, and does anyone have a copy - I'd even like to see scans of the covers and endpapers.
Baxendale is the Jack Kirby of british humour comics. From his early days on the Beano to the anarchic greatness of Odhams Wham, Smash and Pow!, I don't think anyone has had more influence on humour comics in the last fifty years.
Baxendale is the Jack Kirby of british humour comics. From his early days on the Beano to the anarchic greatness of Odhams Wham, Smash and Pow!, I don't think anyone has had more influence on humour comics in the last fifty years.
Stigandnasty- Posts : 12
Join date : 2010-08-11
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I've got book 3 -- not as good as the second one, which in turn wasn't as good as the first, but then the first Willy the Kid book is the single best humour annual I've ever read.
Spiff_B- Posts : 125
Join date : 2010-01-05
Location : Birmingham
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I will have to go in search all over again. I've just finished reading Leo Baxendale' book, A Very Funny Business, an excellent ramble through his life and well worth a read.
Stigandnasty- Posts : 12
Join date : 2010-08-11
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I've got A Very Funny Business somewhere, haven't read it yet -- Was very surprised when I found it in a charity shop.
Spiff_B- Posts : 125
Join date : 2010-01-05
Location : Birmingham
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Well I went in search of Book 3, found it on Abebooks and it arrived this morning.
Stigandnasty- Posts : 12
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I've got all three annuals. They are incredibly dog eared having been read to destruction as a kid.
The third is perhaps the weakest. ISTR hearing that Baxendale ran incredibly late with it and it certainly has an "unfinished" feel with pages of text filling it out.
I remember being very disappointed as a kid to discover that there would be no further books in the series.
Baxendale has a collected edition for sale on his website for anyone with a spare hundred quid !
The third is perhaps the weakest. ISTR hearing that Baxendale ran incredibly late with it and it certainly has an "unfinished" feel with pages of text filling it out.
I remember being very disappointed as a kid to discover that there would be no further books in the series.
Baxendale has a collected edition for sale on his website for anyone with a spare hundred quid !
MLP*- Posts : 273
Join date : 2010-05-15
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How did you know it was the last one? Or is there something in it I've forgotten that made it obvious there wouldn't be more?
Spiff_B- Posts : 125
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Spiff_B wrote:How did you know it was the last one? Or is there something in it I've forgotten that made it obvious there wouldn't be more?
My parents ordered it from the publisher who told them there wouldn't be any more.
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