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There’s something a little odd about the art for this issue. The story is clearly drawn by Ron Turner, but who drew Rick Random’s head? To me, it doesn’t look like Turner’s style, and I wonder if it might have been done by Bill Lacey. For example, have a look at pages 47 and 66 of this scan, and compare this with the style in some of the other Random stories drawn by Turner around this time eg #49 “The Man Who Owned the Moon” which was published only a few months before. If this is right, heaven knows why they thought it necessary, unless they wanted something more “normal” and sympathetic for the hero than Turner’s highly stylised renditions of his characters. Rather ironic if so, as the supercool 40-a-day smoking Random is one of Turner’s most convincing characterisations.

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