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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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Proinsias Cassidy, also known mononymously simply as Proinsias or Cassidy, is a fictional character and antihero in the Garth Ennis comic book series Preacher and The Boys, respectively co-created with Steve Dillon and Darick Robertson, and the former's spin-off prequel Cassidy: Blood and Whiskey.
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 ...
Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone is a British-American animated series produced by H-B Production Co. in conjunction with Sleepy Kids PLC and is known outside the US as Potsworth & Co. [1] In the United Kingdom, the BBC felt that the suggestion of children being awake after midnight was inappropriate (which is reflected in the theme song's lyrics in the British broadcast); thus ...