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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
This is a category of comic strips in The Dandy Comic published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. For more comic strips see Template:Dandy Pages in category "Dandy strips"
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).
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.
Black Bob and the mud-pie boys. Black Bob's phone-call fire-call. Black Bob and the mad alsatian. Black Bob's blizzard battle. The danger light on Bradman's Bridge. Black Bob and the perky pup. Stop that tiger! Faithful old friend. 1951. Brave Bob's island adventures. The feud at the Clattering Crags. Black Bob and the schoolboy scallywags.
In the 1950s he drew mainly adventure strips for The Dandy, The Beano and The Topper, taking over several strips, including "Jimmy and his Magic Patch" and "The Shipwrecked Circus", from Dudley D. Watkins, although he also drew some humour strips, including The Dandy's "Rusty". He was the first artist to draw The Beano's "General Jumbo".
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 ...