And you wonder why I am the way I am?
As I said to Lena in my previous post:
You should have seen what the Cane Toad Times did to the Phantom. The scars, Lord, the psychicological scars!
The Cane Toad Times was a Brisbane-based magazine that somehow found its way to Melbourne during the late 1970s, so I didn’t really expect to find anything of it on the web. But surprise, surprise. There’s a best-of book floating around.
And what, Greg, you ask, did they do to the Phantom?
Still available after all these years, too. Here..
LENAxxx
The Ghost who leaps and secretes !!
Mel Brackstone
That graphic was done by our very own Matt Mawson….
Gregoryno6 replied
Matt Mawson! I thought he was dead!
To quote a famous line.
Matt Mawson
Thanks for the link to Coconut Screenprints, greg. The business is run by Rafe Falkiner, who screenprinted the original Phantoad t-shirts about 30 years ago. He was the screenprinter at Planet Press, an anarchistic bunch who also published the original incarnation of The Cane Toad Times (later resurrected by Toadshow).
Gregoryno6 replied
I can only recall two issues of CTT, Matt – the Phantom issue and the Howard The Duck issue. Seemed to be full of weird comic strips – who drew the stories where the main character had a banana head? Wyatt somebody?
I was a big fan of Captain Goodvibes too. No wonder all the adults around me thought I was on something…
Matt Mawson
Greg, I just checked the “best of” collection. There were seven issues of the Planet Press version of Cane Toad Times and fifteen issues of the ToadShow version. I don’t think any of them made any money, but they were fun to produce. Yes, Robbie Wyatt did the banana-head strips. I was also a big fan of Tony Edward’s “Captain Goodvibes”. I thought his style was brilliant.