What an interesting response there was to last month’s competition. I asked what licenced comic on the blog did The Sleeze Brothers’ creative team work on? Some mentioned Doctor Who after the Sleezes appeared in it, others thought their Some Like It Fresh special was the answer, or even their graphic novel. Of course, while I can understand those that said Doctor Who, of course I actually meant a comic separate from The Sleeze Brothers. The answer was… The Real Ghostbusters, as explained in the In Real Time introduction to the Sleeze duo.
Our winner was Chris Wing (that’s him behind his prize) from Witney, of Chris Recollects Comics on Instagram who bagged himself #3 and #4 of the hilarious Marvel UK comic. Winning another copy of #3 was our runner-up, Ann-Marie Maguire of always-sunny-but-somehow-never-warm Portrush. Thanks to you both for reading the blog and entering the competition. Now on to this month’s prize and it’s about time we featured an issue of the title comic, isn’t it?
This month the last review in the OiNK real time read through will be published, four years after it began and a whopping 39 years after OiNK first appeared in its preview issue at the end of April 1986! I’ve only one double of our piggy pink publication (#57) after I had to buy it twice. I did so because I discovered the eBay seller had failed to mention one of the issues in the bundle they’d sold me had some pen marks on the cover. I’ve held on to this extra issue and now it could be yours.
Because of that pen mark I’m also throwing in a double I have of a Buster comic from the same year which includes a special Pete and his Pimple strip inside to promote the newly-weekly OiNK! This was also my introduction to the superb Ricky Rainbow, so there’s plenty to enjoy. Anyway, on to the question. As usual you’ll have 14 days to scour the blog for the answer to the following question:
Q – What is the FULL name of Jeremy Banx’s spoof character inspired by the Dracula novel who appeared in OiNK Weekly?
When (you think) you’ve got the answer you can either email it to me at oink.blog@icloud.com (all emails will be deleted after the winner has been selected, I’m not fancy enough to have a newsletter or stuff like that), or use the contact form on the right-hand side of your desktop screen or under this post on mobile. Your entry must be with me by midnight on Monday 14th April 2025.
After this date I’ll contact the winner to ask for their postal address. Unfortunately, due to rising postage costs the competitions are only open to UK and Ireland readers. If you win I’ll ask if you could take a photo of yourself with your prize for inclusion in the next month’s competition post. You don’t have to, but you do get to show off if you do.
These are just some of the highlights awaiting you inside these comics! Good luck to all who enter and remember you can check out the previous competitions to find out about winners and the kinds of prizes I’m giving away. Next month’s prize is Wild, so remember to come back on Thursday 1st May 2025 to find out what it is.
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