Buster, cover date 6 December 1975
The jokes in Snooper were based as much on the character having an enormous hooter as on the nosiness it denoted. Making fun of physical characteristics was common in 70s comics, certainly more than in kids’ comics books and cartoons today.
There was a nice egalitarian conklusion to this week’s episode - drawn, I believe, by Martin Baxendale following the style of his dad, and the strip’s creator, Leo Baxendale.
Other Buster regulars at this time included Faceache (art by Ken Reid), Ivor Lott and Tony Broke (Jim Crocker), Rent-a-Ghost (Reg Parlett) and Val’s Vanishing Cream (Mike Lacey).
But new kids on the block (plus a dog and a gran) were promised for next week’s issue.
Christmas was drawing closer, and the ads in this week’s Buster give a good flavour of what nature of goodies would be under the tree for youngsters in 1975. Footballs, ‘Attack Dolls’, the Floundering board game and Matchbox Battle Kings. And the Buster annual, of course.
