Can anyone identify this comic character?

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martin8
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Can anyone identify this comic character?

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This has been bugging me for a long time, does anyone know the answer?
I remember a comic strip from what was probably the 70s, it was about this man or boy who could split up into 3 parts. One part would be a floating head, one part would be the middle with two arms ( and a face ) and the last part being just legs (and also a face ). I think it was a British comic strip but I can't remember the comic, and as I recall, the last panel was always the same every week, with them all walking away. There was also something about fighting evil, like the bottom part would say "Stand up to evil" . This was all over 30 years ago, so my memory of it is somewhat hazy. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

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Brian Walker was the artist in Whizzer and chips..

http://www.oocities.org/pjgbrianwalker/3storeystan.html

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martin8
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Yes, that's the one! Thank You.

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Post by Raven »

Har, I was reading a stack of Three-Storey Stans just a few days ago, to see if it was as weird as I remembered. It was a clever, distinctive strip. I found that same last panel each week a bit odd at the time.

There's some nice stuff in the Whizzer and Chips of early 1973. Frank McDiarmid's Slowcoach was also good and increasingly weird at this time.

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As you think it was a British strip, it probably wasn't this:-
http://captainmarvelculture.com/split.html
but it sort of fits your description.
And while I don't have any of the strip mentioned in the previous replies, I do have all the MF Enterprises Captain Marvel comics. Sad, isn't it.

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That was the first one I thought of too Paw! :)

...Oh how the criminals trembled, knowing that their dreaded nemesis just had to shout the magic word 'Split!' and all his arms and legs would fall off! Strange that it never caught on...!

- Phil Rushton

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