What do you like in the past ..the Dandy spanning 70 years?

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 01 Nov 2007, 01:42

What do you like in the past ..the Dandy spanning 70 years

Bit late for me to think right now.....so I'll type tomorrow what I liked in the Dandy as a kid and looking back over the 70 years what I liked as an adult..

Lets celebrate this super comic...by chatting here...

What was your favourite as a kid and now looking back as an adult what is your favourite from the whole of the 70 years?...

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 01 Nov 2007, 17:20

The poll can't have any more options.........sorry......let me know of your favourites here...Corporal Clott...My Own Genie...(Bananaman..Cuddles and Dimples still feel they not Dandy yet:) )...Smasher...Peter's Pocket Grandpa...Shocker Jock..Hungry Horace...Freddy the fearless fly...Keyhole Kate...Jak...Jack Silver..Greedy Pigg...Harry and his hungry Hippo..Brain Duane...Blinky...Danny Long legs...Hyde and Shriek..hope thats jogged a few memories..

As a kid in the 80's I liked a lot.. Micky the mouth and Bertie Buncle and his chemical Uncle which I now know are the same artist...I think it was the extreem poses that I liked... like surprise!

My sister got The Dandy I was more of a Beano fan though I did read the Dandy which my sister had. The image which sticks with me is from a Dandy summer special 1981
The Great Dumpling chase aboad the good ship Dandy
loved the side plots and how it all linked together on the ship..
The Dandy with reprints of Desperate Dan...and strong fights and stealing food seemed even more naughty than the Beano..

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 01 Nov 2007, 18:17

I was always a fan of the adventure strips so Billy the Cat and General Jumbo were the two that I enjoyed the most. I so wanted to have a remote control army like Jumbo's.

MikeC · Post by **MikeC** » 01 Nov 2007, 22:11

Both Beano strips. Shame on you!

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 01 Nov 2007, 22:16

MikeC wrote:Both Beano strips. Shame on you!

Mike, I was 6!

I think that I am allowed the mists of time to fudge the odd memory.

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 02 Nov 2007, 00:18

the adventure strips

The Umbrella men
the talking ball
Black bob is the best known
Corporal Kim

the years are a rough guide.....some strips were repeated in the 70's or redrawn......some are from the Dandy annual
1948
Danny long legs

1950 annual Brave young Black-hoof -Indian teen on a black horse
1952
Fighting Forkbeard vikings in action in 1951 Britain

1953
Barney's bear
Willie Willikin's Pobble an alien
Bonanza Bill the tricky trader of Hilly Billy city

1955 Tin Lizzie a maid robot with Brassribs the butler before Brassneck the schoolboy came along
from annual- Willie the wicked who has an indian Afghan warrior to keep an eye on him

The Tickler Twins on the red skin trail -Tim and Tessie Tickler
Mary's Mighty Uncle another wild west picture strip
Young Frankie Drake fightig the Spaniards blowing up ships..nice drawings
Eastward Ho with Prince Charlie's gold a pirate picture strip

1956
Clanky the cast-iron pup
from annual- Mickys Tick-tock men mechanical puppets
My gang by Wacker Wilson
Willie's Whizzer broom
Gobble Gobble Gertie a eskimowhose very hungry

1959
Charlie the chimp

1961
Iron Hands a very strong boy in the Channel islands in World War 2

1962
The hovercar snatcher

1963
The Crimson ball

1967 Captain Whoosh
South with Hovercar

1968 Super Sam
Gunsmoke Jack
Spunky and his Spider

1969 Purple Cloud
the wooden submarine

What do we call these strips...Spunky and his spider..Brassneck...Winker Watson...as they are not adventure stories..is it called picture strips...

Anyway I hope some of this will jog your memory

Cap Haggis · Post by **Cap Haggis** » 02 Nov 2007, 00:34

I used to love the adventure strips in the Dandy the ones like Brassneck and especially "Spunky and his spider" (I think there were a few in that style - great British stuff) My fav for childrens adventure strips were the Beezer and Topper though (Iron Eater, Jellymen, Whizzers from Oz) I can't remember the Umbrella men any chance of a scan Peter to jog the old memory (they sound interesting)

Lew Stringer · Post by **Lew Stringer** » 02 Nov 2007, 00:52

Peter Gray wrote:
What do we call these strips...Spunky and his spider..Brassneck...Winker Watson...as they are not adventure stories..is it called picture strips...

When I was doing Combat Colin I thought of it as a "comedy-action strip" so perhaps that would apply to those? I'd be interested to know what DC Thomson classed them as though.

Years ago I read the phrase "light adventure strips" somewhere, in relation to strips such as Billy the Cat or The Iron Fish, - and I suppose The Umbrella Men and Whizzers from Oz would fit that category too. Meaning that they weren't quite as "adult" (for want of a better term at this late hour) as the adventure strips in Victor for example. But there does need to be a different description for Brassneck, Winker Watson, Mo, Joe and Daddy-O etc.

Lew

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 02 Nov 2007, 01:02

broke it in 2 as the list is getting long.dug out my old Dandy annuals so will add more...to celebrate this great comic..

1970

1971 Iron Hands hmm is this the reprint...or a new drawing of it?

1972 Boy from Lilliput

1973

1974 Mystrey Dick

1975
1976

1977
Willie fixit

1978 The Red Wrecker 'redrawn'
The Fizzfist 'Jack Silver'

1979 Dave the Brave
The hairy gang of robbers

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 02 Nov 2007, 01:09

looking at old dandy annuals I've found the name in the contents page..

text stories are refered to as Stories
Winker Watson...red Wrecker are refered as picture stories
the rest is comics

so there you are...

Kashgar · Post by **Kashgar** » 03 Nov 2007, 11:49

When I was indexing them I put things like Danny Longlegs and Winker Watson in a category I called 'comic adventure strips' to contrast them with straight 'adventure' strips like Black Bob, Crackaway Jack etc.

ISPYSHHHGUY · Post by **ISPYSHHHGUY** » 03 Nov 2007, 12:31

'The PURPLE CLOUD' was fantastic.....it really grabbed my attention as a young 'DANDY'reader......this was a time when boxes of text, rather than word-balloons were often used, giving such strips a more 'serious' edge.....CHARLIE GRIGG done some fantastic stuff for 'DANDY' in this period, he often switched to a more 'illustrative' approach, and this was used to great effect in 'DANDY' annuals of the late '60s...........he was often given a two-page annual spread, in which he depicted spectacular, evocative illustations...........for me, one of the best 'DANDY' ingredients of this era.

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 08 Nov 2007, 00:24

http://www2.snapfish.com/getimageforsha ... /otsi=SAIS

Cap Haggis · Post by **Cap Haggis** » 08 Nov 2007, 01:36

Your a star Peter- Umbrella men look brilliant these strips should come back with a more modern spin on them (not an American spin though ie costumes etc)

alanultron5 · Post by **alanultron5** » 30 Dec 2008, 15:34

My fave cartoon character in Dandy was `The Smasher` as he did things I would never dare do! Loved `Big Head and Thick Head` as well!

regarding the more `serious` strips! Who remembers `The Red Wrecker` and `The Stinging Swarm` ?

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