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Title changed to 'Lion Boy' for subsequent appearances. Returned as a picture strip from 1949 to 1950. Reappeared as a prose story in 1951. Returned as a picture strip from 1952 to 1953. Jack Glass 1939 1953 Prose / Adventure The Man from Laughing Mountain 1939 1939 Prose Sacred Bull of Batmandu James Walker 1939 1939 Prose
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 Boys' Own Paper, another long-running publication which was aimed at boys in a slightly older age group, lasted from 1879 to 1967. There has been a continuous tradition, since the 1950s, of black and white comics, published in a smaller page size format, many of them war titles such as Air Ace , inspiring youngsters with tales of the ...
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 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 ...
The Comet was a weekly British comics periodical published by J.B. Allen and later Amalgamated Press and Fleetway Publications from 20 September 1946 to 17 October 1959. . Initially a children's newspaper, The Comet was transformed into a boys' adventure comic in May 1949 by editor Edward Holmes when J.B. Allen were purchased by Amalgamated
The Topper was a UK comic published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd that ran from 7 February 1953 to 15 September 1990, when it merged with The Beezer.. A strip named "Mickey the Monkey" originally appeared on the front cover.