These wider splash pages are always a pain, but you can click on the image it you want to see it without it being cut off.
Anyway, courtesy of my dad's collection, this is the only issue I have of the 17 the book ran, but I assume it's fairly typical. Three short stories where the band gets involved in hijinks that allow the creative team to do a montage of gags based around one theme or the other. Like the Monkees using all the communication possibilities of the late-1960s to spread the word about a hot dog stand to help its business.
I covered this comic in greater depth in Random Back Issues #44, so you can check that out if you're dying for more info. I compared it to Family Guy, but honestly, the attempts at humor here at least relate to the plot of the stories. It's just the plots are wafer-thin.
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Jose Delbo! I know that name well, as it was always a sign that the quality of the art in my Transformers comics was going to take a nosedive.
No disrespect to Delbo, but there was a world of difference between what he was doing for the US stories, and what people like Geoff Senior, Will Simpson, and Bryan Hitch were doing for the UK ones.
I'd never heard of him, so I assumed he was basically some lowest common denominator Dell got for their books. I could certainly see him being a drop from Bryan Hitch, although hopefully he'd improved by then from where he was when this comic came out. I'm almost mesmerized by how strange the Monkees' legs and feet look.
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