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The Boy with Iron Hands Fred Sturrock 1939 1940 Adventure The Black-Striped Sweets that Billy Eats James Walker 1939 1939 Prose Our Teacher's a Walrus! Originally a prose story from 1939 to 1940. Reappeared in picture strip form in 1947. George Ramsbottom Dudley Watkins: 1939 1947 Prose / Humour Adventure Drake's Drummer Boy
In 1924 Watkins entered the Glasgow School of Art. [4] 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 ...
The statue of Desperate Dan in Dundee City Centre. The strip was drawn by Dudley D. Watkins until his death in 1969. Although The Dandy Annuals featured new strips from other artists from then on, the comic continued reprinting Watkins strips until 1983 (though the then Korky the Cat artist Charles Grigg drew new strips for annuals and summer specials), when it was decided to start running new ...
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In Cave-land Ohio, 500,001 BC, the tribal leader of Cave-land, Big Chief Goppernopper, forces Gak, the older sister of Ook, to marry him to keep Ook and Gluk from bothering him. After saving her from a sandpit, the two Cave-kids befriend one of the dinosaur species Mog-Mog, and her baby, and stop the wedding.
As with most of the official run, Watson's series would be reprinted yet again: a two-parter from issues 327 and 328 for The Beano 's 50th anniversary in The Dandy and The Beano: 50 Golden Years, [23] in which Watson and Ali Baba are captured in a villain's cave. [24] [25] His "portrait" appeared in issue 2000's Hall of Fame. [26]
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).
The Smasher (later shortened to just Smasher) was a British comic strip, published in the British comic The Dandy. The title character was a boy with a tendency to destroy things and who was reminiscent of Dennis The Menace from The Beano, though when he destroyed things it usually tended to be by accident rather than design. Initially Smasher ...