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colcool007 wrote:I can confirm that no story like it appeared in Warlord up to Dec 1984 or in Crunch.
Are you a bit of an expert in things that ran in Warlord up to Dec 84 then, colcool007? Only I noticed a 1984 Warlord Annual the other day with a "'Crazy Hawk' front cover and thought "ooh, a western strip in Warlord - I quite like the idea of that." Yet the character, spear in one hand, machine gun blasting away in the other, quite a feat. is riding his horse through a typical group of Warlord-style soldiers.
Any idea if this quite rum looking strip ever ran in the weekly?
So we're down to Spike, Buddy, Hornet, Hotspur or Bullet on the DCT side. Could it have appeared in the New Eagle?
I wish I knew,but any Issue I have of the remaining titles don't have it.I have quite a few Buddy comics and no sign of it there.Maybe Spike....I don't have any of those.I thought of maybe some of the humour titles,but I wouldn't think so.This is driving me up the walls.The Fleetway titles are already well indexed and checking them would be easy,but few of the adventure titles by D.C. Thomson have been indexed,at least the mid 70s onwards,the era I recall reading the strip.
Raven wrote:And it's interesting to note how Danny Boyle has gone on from travelling the oceans of the world in his marvellous machine, the Iron Fish, to directing such successful films as Slumdog Millionaire. He never talks about his Iron Fish days in interviews, does he?
Buddy made a gaffe there - it was Danny Gray in The Beano. Wonder why the name was changed?
Ah, but he isn't the same kid, though is he - probably a relative or friend of the Gray family who somehow inherited it!
colcool007 wrote:I can confirm that no story like it appeared in Warlord up to Dec 1984 or in Crunch.
Are you a bit of an expert in things that ran in Warlord up to Dec 84 then, colcool007? Only I noticed a 1984 Warlord Annual the other day with a "'Crazy Hawk' front cover and thought "ooh, a western strip in Warlord - I quite like the idea of that." Yet the character, spear in one hand, machine gun blasting away in the other, quite a feat. is riding his horse through a typical group of Warlord-style soldiers.
Any idea if this quite rum looking strip ever ran in the weekly?
This rum strip did indeed run in the weekly and was called Pawnee Patrol. The premise was that a group of rear echelon cooks, clerks et al were absolutely terrible soldiers, but as they were all Pawnee braves, a British professor of anthropology (bearing a strange resemblance to Col Saunders) helped them to rediscover their ancestral heritage and voila a guerilla patrol par excellence was born and the Japanese forces arrayed against them suffered numerous setbacks. A story that could never decide whether it was comedic or high drama and suffered as a result IMHO. Without checking, I am willing to say at least 2 serials ran before Dec 1984. The reason that I can't confirm beyond that is that my collection comes to a dead stop there despite haunting Ebay for the last 7 years!
As to Expert, I am fair to middlin' decent as I have an eclectic memory so I can remember loads about comics but naff all about what I was doing last week!
I started to say something sensible but my parents took over my brain!
Kashgar wrote:The only two strips that made it into to Victor from Buddy following their merger were Tuffy and Limp-along Leslie.
Thanks, Kashgar. So that's probably just the two most trad, old-fashioned Buddy strips making the jump, rather than any fantasy-based strips. Perhaps what was thought would fit into Victor best.
Hi Cap, I'm sure we've been down this road before re this kids in uniform fighting strip and once again I'm forced to come back to 'The Nameless Ones' from Bullet Nos 123-132 (1978). Just in case it rings any bells the title comes from the fact that all the kids (teenagers) have numbers rather than names and the two warring factions are the Mebians and the Greencoats. The hero of the tale is an earthboy with the designation No 233 who is zapped to the world on which the action takes place after being hit by lightning. The weapons they use do kill though as well as stun.
Hi Kashgar,I am starting to think you may be right on the nail. If somebody can submit a scan,my subconscious may come alive.If what you say is true,I will be one happy pappy.I do recall buying a fair amount of Bullet comics.I loved Fireball,Lord Peter Flint's(Warlord) nephew.Well,I was young
The Cap.
p.s. Please somebody put me out of my misery(no,not that way!) and scan a page from this strip.
Captain Storm wrote:Please somebody put me out of my misery(no,not that way!) and scan a page from this strip.
I'm coming in at something of a late hour on this, Cap, as I've just got back from my holiday. I've scanned the four pages of the first episode for you but when I try to upload the images I'm still getting the same message that I've been getting for about a month, 'Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached'. I emailed Al earlier for advice and assistance and I hope that by tomorrow something will have been sorted out. Rest assured that I will post the images the minute the system allows me to unless, of course, someone else manages to bypass the embargo and uploads some relevant images first.
To Phoenix and Kashgar,I can now confirm that this is indeed the strip I had in my mind for all those years.Amazing that it stayed in my mind! Brilliant! Thanks again!
If somebody can submit a scan,my subconscious may come alive.If what you say is true,I will be one happy pappy.I do recall buying a fair amount of Bullet comics.I loved Fireball,Lord Peter Flint's(Warlord) nephew.Well,I was young 
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