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Circus Boy Jack Glass 1959 1959 Adventure Round the World in 80 Days: Based on the novel Paddy Brennan: 1959 1959 Adventure The Boy with Iron Hands Unrelated to previous strip with the same title Bill Holroyd 1959 1961 Adventure Buffalo Bill's Schooldays Michael Darling 1960 1960 Adventure Rodger and his Lodgers Originally ran from 1960 to 1962.
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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).
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Based on the 1970s The Dandy comic adventure strip Peter's Pocket Grandpa by Ron Spencer (which itself was based on an earlier prose text story called Jimmie's Pocket Grandpa which had appeared in The Dandy in the 1940s), the programme stars James Bolam as a grandfather who owns a magical "shrinking cap", which only his 10-year-old grandson ...
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 [update] there have been 86 editions. [ 1 ] The Dandy Annual still continues to be published, even though the weekly comic ended in 2013.
Several new boys' comics were started in the 1950s, Tiger and Eagle being long-lasting. The characters in the strip of these two comics were mainly human, unlike those in The Beano and The Dandy. The Eagle had strips such as Dan Dare and PC 49 drawn without distortion. By the middle of the 1960s, the taste of the youth of Britain was changing.
He has met Alfred the Great, [1] Florence Nightingale, [2] and George Stephenson, [3] as well as Robin Hood, [4] Sinbad the Sailor and William Tell. [5] [6] Future adventure strip character Strang the Terrible appeared in a two-part story in issue 233 before his series' debut in 240, [7] [8] and Strongarm the Axeman (from 1939) [9] also ...