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by Desperate Dan
18 Sep 2018, 09:42
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: What was this strip and in what comic?
Replies: 2
Views: 4933

Re: What was this strip and in what comic?

Maybe paddy payne in lion. THANK YOU for that karl! :D Sorry I hadn't replied earlier but had given up hope after a week. I have this one and only image in my head and it certainly looks a likely candidate. All I need to do now to confirm is to find that image....................not unless someone ...
by Desperate Dan
02 Sep 2018, 10:58
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: What was this strip and in what comic?
Replies: 2
Views: 4933

What was this strip and in what comic?

Now here’s another chance for someone to delve into their memory banks please, if anyone can help. I’ve no idea now on either what comic this was in and certainly not what the serial/strip/story was called, I can only tell you that it would definitely have been in the mid-1950s. The main character I...
by Desperate Dan
05 Aug 2018, 09:49
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: What was.....................?
Replies: 2
Views: 3886

Re: What was.....................?

Yes, that is it!! Thanks for that Kashgar. 'sfunny how you (me anyway) can remember images but not names - I have absolutely no recollection of it being called General Jumbo, but that's certainly the cartoon strip. That must have been one helluva remote control he had on his arm to do all that. Neve...
by Desperate Dan
04 Aug 2018, 11:26
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: What was.....................?
Replies: 2
Views: 3886

What was.....................?

........the comic strip (1950s) (and in what comic) where a boy had a set of "live" soldiers/figures that he brought out of the box to fight the evil forces he saw?

Probably making that sound more dramatic than it was but it always fascinated me and I wanted a set!!
by Desperate Dan
02 Aug 2018, 16:10
Forum: Non-comics discussion
Topic: Newbie
Replies: 5
Views: 17308

Re: Newbie

Thank you Ron. :D Favourite comic eh? Well, when I was a mere sprog I have to admit when it came to comics I was a bit of a floosie, flitting between (I was only allowed one a week :cry: ) The Beano and Dandy and then as I got a bit older, between The Beezer or The Topper, and then even older still ...
by Desperate Dan
21 Jul 2018, 11:32
Forum: Non-comics discussion
Topic: Newbie
Replies: 5
Views: 17308

Re: Newbie

Thank you Mr Valeera - I could hear a distant church bell mournfully tolling and then some tumbleweed past me, and I was beginning to think it was no man's land. :shhh:
by Desperate Dan
19 Jul 2018, 23:17
Forum: Non-comics discussion
Topic: Newbie
Replies: 5
Views: 17308

Newbie

Hello. Is it me you're looking for? :o