The Shrinker
Published: 24 July 2026
Format: A4, 206 black & white pages, paperback with matte cover
Available via Ebay (coming soon)
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"Gloating evilly, the sinister Capek held
the two men in his scrawny fist..."
the two men in his scrawny fist..."
The story begins with a near miss on a dark and stormy night. An R.A.F. transporter narrowly misses an unlit array on a craggy island and Squadron-Leader Flint and Sergeant Slake return later to ask the owner of a bleak and seemingly long-deserted castle to put a light atop the mysterious pylons.
As they walk towards the castle, the spidery figure of Capek watches over his storage cells, charged by the lightning that has been drawn to the aerial array. Positioning a gull before a strange device that emits a blue light that arcs through the window and hits the approaching R.A.F. men and throws them to the ground. Seconds later, they realise that a vast wall that has appeared before them is the step they were climbing and that they have been shrunk to no more than an inch in height!
The story was the creation of David Motton and Mike Western, and I'm pleased to say that the book will include a foreword from David and an introduction from Pete Western, Mike's son. Mike went on to draw the first two stories featuring the evil Capek 120 of the strip's 200 pages) before handing over to Carlos Cruz. David Motton would write four of the five Shrinker stories, taking a short break when Western left, when the strip was continued by Roger Noel Cook.
The Shrinker contains all five stories that ran in Buster and Valiant, which would see the evil Capek jailed more than once, only to escape or to be persuaded into helping the population of an island threatened by a volcano, which gives a British space rocket expert an idea: a rocket powerful enough to launch men towards Mars would be impossible... but what if the men and their capsule were shrunk to midget size?
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