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Prose / Humour Adventure Drake's Drummer Boy Originally a prose story that ran from 1939 to 1940. Returned as a picture strip in 1959. Jack Glass Victor Peon 1939 1959 Prose / Adventure Little White Chief of the Cherokees Originally ran from 1939 to 1940. Reprinted from 1951 to 1952. George Ramsbottom 1939 1952 Adventure Addie and Hermy: Sam ...
Winker's best pal is a lad called Tim Trott (nicknamed "Trotty" by Winker), though, apart from Winker's other friends Sally and Sandy, no other characters have emerged with any great regularity, despite the number of boys within the school. The headmaster has made frequent appearances, but mainly with Creep rather than any of the boys. Also ...
The Dandy was a Scottish children's comic magazine published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. [3] The first issue was printed in December 1937, making it the world's third-longest running comic, after Il Giornalino (cover dated 1 October 1924) and Detective Comics (cover dated March 1937). From August 2007 until October 2010, it was ...
The Dandy Annual is the name of a book that has been published every year since 1938, to tie in with the children's comic The Dandy. As of 2023 there have been 86 editions. [1] The Dandy Annual still continues to be published, even though the weekly comic ended in 2013. The annuals are traditionally published in July or August, in time for ...
The Numskulls is a comic strip in The Beano, and previously in The Beezer and The Dandy – UK comics owned by D.C Thomson. The strip is about a team of tiny human-like technicians who live inside the heads of various people, running and maintaining their bodies and minds. It first appeared in The Beezer from 1962 until 1979, drawn by Malcolm ...
Paddy Brennan. Paddy Brennan (born c. 1930) [1] is an Irish comics artist who worked mainly in the UK, drawing adventure strips for D. C. Thomson & Co. titles. He was a freelancer, working six months of the year in Dublin and six months in London. [2][3] His first published work was a strip called "Jeff Collins - Crime Reporter" in the Magno ...
t. e. Jimmy and His Magic Patch was a British adventure story published in the British comics magazine The Beano in 1944. It was drawn by Dudley D. Watkins and later continued by Paddy Brennan until 1959. It starred schoolboy Jimmy Watson who time-travelled accidentally with a cloth patch on his school clothing.
In 1924 Watkins entered the Glasgow School of Art. [2] In 1925 the school principal recommended Watkins to the thriving publisher D.C. Thomson, based in Dundee.Watkins was offered a six-month employment contract with D. C. Thomson, so he moved to their Dundee base and began providing illustrations for Thomson's "Big Five" story papers for boys (Adventure, Rover, Wizard, and later Skipper and ...