On page 13 of the story London looks quite a bit like Mega City One.
By K1ngcat
A nice little mystery from Bob Keston with millions of marvellous machines from Ron Turner. Thoroughly recommended reading!
By crashryan
Something's strange about Turner's art here. It's much less heavily-inked than most of his Rick Randoms. It does look like Turner's inking, not someone else, and it's still good. Just not the same.
By Robb_K
To me, the artwork has very sparse backgrounds, especially for the outdoor scenes, which are few, to begin with. i find that very strange for a sci-Fi story. Most of the story is indoors, and when it takes place outside, the opportunity to show what "The frozen World looks like, and give it a mood, is not used. It gave me the feeling that I was at a 1970s machine sales or technology exhibition, rather than in the distant future and on another planet.
By K1ngcat
Way back in SDL #79 I commented on a change in Ron's art. In earlier works he would use shade to suggest outlines rather than draw hard lines round his characters, but that seems to change and progress to this very clean style with outlines on all the figures and less black overall. Whether it's a separate inker or an editorial decision I don't know, it's still Ron but not the Ron I used to know! Mind you some of the scripts don't give him the opportunity to use his imagination to the full...
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Name
Super Detective Library 133 - The Mystery of the Frozen World | Published
Publication
Price: 10d [0-0-10 GBP] | Pages: 68 | Frequency: The first Thursday in each month
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Indexed from scanned copy at https://comicbookplus.com
Cover
The Mystery of the Frozen World / 1 page
Feature
Rick Random
Genre
Science Fiction
Characters
Rick Random
Comic Story
The Mystery of the Frozen World / Rick Random (64 pages)
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