A sensational centre spread from WHAM No 17, 1964, written, drawn and hand-coloured by Leo Baxendale (with a little help from Frank Langford drawing 'Kinky Boots' and R. Pierson doing the hand-lettering). The left hand page is partly obscured by a label in this former publisher's file copy, which details the contributors and their fees. Bax's £80 for this two page spread may seem meagre, but back in 1964 that was a lot more than the average weekly wage, and these were not his only pages that week!
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Even More Bax
A sensational centre spread from WHAM No 17, 1964, written, drawn and hand-coloured by Leo Baxendale (with a little help from Frank Langford drawing 'Kinky Boots' and R. Pierson doing the hand-lettering). The left hand page is partly obscured by a label in this former publisher's file copy, which details the contributors and their fees. Bax's £80 for this two page spread may seem meagre, but back in 1964 that was a lot more than the average weekly wage, and these were not his only pages that week!
I once owned the bound file copies of SMASH with the labels detailing the cost of each strip. ODHAMS had two bound copies of each title - one was the collection of a year's worth (more or less) of the comic; the other was labelled with the cost of each page.
ReplyDeleteI still have the bound copies of the first two years of SMASH without the labels, but when they were first bound, issue 2 was not included. Before I parted with the bound copy WITH the labels, I extracted number 2, then steamed off the labels, which I still have in a little booklet somewhere.
Interesting to see what they earned back then, eh?