Frank Pepper (story) and Alfonso Font (art)
from Thunder Annual 1972
reprinted in Black Max Volume One
Rebellion, October 2018
I'll have a review of Rebellion's compilation of 'Black Max' strips from the British Boy's papers 'Thunder' and 'Lion' from the early 70s posted here shortly.
However, I'd like to post a story from that compilation that originally appeared in the 'Thunder' 1972 annual.
'Black Max' took place on the Western Front of World War One, and pitted the German mastermind Maximilien Von Klorr, aka 'Black Max', and his giant vampire bats (!) against the pilots of the Royal Flying Corps.
The scans appearing in the Rebellion compilation apparently were made from published pages rather than the original artwork, but even so you can see the high caliber of the artwork by the Spanish great Alfonso Font.
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