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The strip's simple premise follows the adventures of a black male cat called Korky, a cat who behaves like a human and is accepted in a world of humans as only a comic character can be. Originally a mute character, he started speaking in No. 149, 5 October 1940 (see image for his first words as he tries to help some hungry dogs).
Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the now-defunct Scottish comic magazine The Dandy. He made his appearance in the first issue which was dated 4 December 1937 and became the magazine's mascot. He is apparently the world's strongest man, able to lift a cow with one hand.
In chapter "The Dandiacal Body" of the novel Sartor Resartus (Carlyle, 1831), Thomas Carlyle described the dandy's symbolic social function as a man and a persona of refined masculinity: A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes.
Keyhole Kate was a 1930s British comic strip series in The Dandy. The strip featured a nosy young girl who liked to look through people's keyholes. She appeared in The Dandy ' s first issue, drawn by Allan Morley [1] back in 1937. She continued in The Dandy until 1955 and appeared as the cover strip of issue 295. [2]
The Ugliest Pig in the World Originally a prose story that ran from 1939 to 1940. Returned in picture strip form under the title 'Rip Snorter – The Ugliest Pig in the World' from 1956 to 1957. Toby Baines Eric Roberts 1939 1957 Prose Jak the Dragon Killer Jack Glass 1939 1941 Prose The Man who owns an Ali Baba Cave Toby Baines 1939 1940 Prose
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As drawn by Jack Prout, further Black Bob stories appeared as a picture strip in The Weekly News in 1946, continuing until 1967, and regularly in The Dandy from his 1944 debut until issue 2122, dated 24 July 1982. Eight Black Bob books were published at infrequent intervals in 1950, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961 and 1965.
The Numskulls is a comic strip in The Beano, and previously in The Beezer and The Dandy – UK comics owned by D.C Thomson. The strip is about a team of tiny human-like technicians who live inside the heads of various people, running and maintaining their bodies and minds. It first appeared in The Beezer from 1962 until 1979, drawn by Malcolm ...