Instant Garbage
Most fans of the E C Ryder strip will
remember Instant Garbage as the
column of miscellaneous humorous
bits and pieces, many contributed by
readers, which started in September
1973 when the strip became a full
half page.
Regular sections included:
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Flop Ten
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Screwball Scribbles
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Rocker-Doodles
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Daffy Doorsigns
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Silly Sound-Effects
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Mad Microbes
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Loneliness is...
However, Instant Garbage pre-dates E C Ryder by nearly two years, being a full-colour
humour magazine ("that is different") produced by JEO in October 1968. It sold for the price of
1/6 (7 and a half pence) and contained 16 pages of drawings and writings, plus a horror
supplement Gruesome Magazine No 1.
Some of the characters, and indeed some of the jokes, may seem familiar. Free with the
magazine was a genuine garbage disposal unit for every reader, plus a competition to win a
car (Morris Mini De Luxe) for just two shillings (10p).
JEO told me that it was this piece of work that got him the original column in Disc.
This magazine is now a collector's item.
