Comic Strips:
The Real Ghostbusters UNTITLED [Are You Troubled By Strange Noises in the Night?] w: Richard Alan; a: Christopher McRoberts, lettering by Zed, colouring by Dan Abnett.
in The Real Ghostbusters (Marvel) #03 (23 Apr 1988).
Text Features About:
This Doesn't Usually Happen... text feature by UNKNOWN (uncredited); photograph (uncredited).
in The Real Ghostbusters (Marvel) #03 (23 Apr 1988).
THIS DOESN'T USUALLY HAPPEN...
...thought fifteen year old Christopher McRoberts as was whisked from his home in Northern Ireland to the Marvel Comics London offices ... and he was right; he was also in for a big surprise!
On Friday 5th of February, and LWT camera crew invaded Marvel's secret HQ to film a sequence for the Sunday evening television show Surprise! Surprise!, the programme in which Cilla Black engineers treats and surprises for lucky members of the public.
Young Christopher McRoberts was brought to London to meet his heroes - the Marvel heroes whose adventures are read every week by thousands in such titles as Transformers, Action Force and Thundercats.
Under the watchful eye of the irrepresible Bob Carolgees, Christopher met such celebrities as Spider-Man, Captain America and Spider-Woman, and was introduced to some of the talents responsible for bringing their adventures to the public. Artist Geoff Senior, who was busy working on the dazzling new comic Dragon's Teeth that's being penned by Transformer Extrodinaire Simon Furman, and artist/writer Mike Collins, who presented Christopher with a portrait of Marvel's X-Men drawn by him and inked by Stephen Baskerville.
The TV debut of Christopher and Marvel Comics was broadcast on Sunday 6th March, and during the show, viewers got their first glimpse of The Real Ghostbusters, as shown by Cilla.
Just to show that we don't do things by half, Marvel presents Christopher's own portrayal of the 'Busters. Christopher became part of a strip-producing team, drawing the page for the letterer and colourist to work on.
Of course, being a Real Ghostbuster and a member of the Mighty Marvel crew in one day doesn't usually happen, but when it does, thanks to Marvel and Surprise! Surprise!, it's a Lorra, Lorra fun!
