a Super look at Faceache Part one.

LenaPon Eylül 27, 2022

These series of posts originally appeared in January 2016, but will be an expanded and updated version.

the following posts on the Scrungemeister (that is, Faceache) originally appeared on the blog (in order of appearance for this part), 5/9/2013, 7/9/2012, 17/3/2013 and 27/10/2015. All strips in this part are by Ken Reid.

Here he is, in a double part serving of the one and only Faceache.

Comic Title: Faceache

Comic: Jet

Artist: Ken Reid

First Appearance: No. 1 (1/5/1971)

Final Appearance: 25/9/1971

Continued in Buster

First Series run: 2/10/1971 until 30/10/1976

Second Series run: 14/1/1978 until 1/10/1988, Frank McDiarmid took over the duties from mid 1987, Continued in reprints until the final mixed media issue of Buster.

What would you do if you had a son who was able to change his face (and later on, his whole body into some of the most hideous creations ever (not) existed. It certainly drove his dad to distraction. To date, I have only a handful of strips from his first run on the blog, but in due course, I'll have more from the early years down the track

my first Faceache strip originally appeared in Jet, issue dated 8/5/71.

Next up, is a strip originally appearing from Buster and Jet dated 2/5/1972,

After a brief hiatus (nnce Monster Fun merged into Buster, replaced by Ken's strip from Monster Fun, Martha's Monster Makeup), Faceache would return. The setup for this was that his dad had won the pools, and decided to blow the money on a world cruise, unfortunately, Faceache would not be going, and instead would be sent to a tough boarding school (Belmonte school).

His master there, Mr. Sidney Snipe had a disdain for Faceache's unique ability, as you will soon see.

The remaining strips on this post, and the next are from the second series. The first two I do not have a date for, as these were reprints from the Best of Buster.

Snipe thought that aversion therapy would work (that is, Faceache getting caned, again and again), but it never worked.

It got to the point where Snipe would utter a dire warning, which came true for Faceache, and here is the storyI call "a Scrunge too far"

I think this was around the time that the Faceache strip was no longer being written by his artist, the great Ken Reid.

Today, I have the first three parts of the five part story, when he did a scrunge too many.
Part one first appeared in the issues of Buster and Jackpot dated 13/3/1982, 20/3/1982 and 27/3/1982.