Re: New Look Crikey! Magazine Out on Thursday
Posted: 18 Nov 2009, 12:39
Yup, that is indeed the same storyline used for Corporal Fry, some minor details (like the names and the Corporal's height) aside.Phoenix wrote: My rather lighthearted comment about Inch High - Private Eye came about because I didn't understand, and still don't, the reference to the Nutty Notion about Cpl Fry. Nevertheless, there is no serial in the text story papers about any character who is only one inch tall. There is however, as Kashgar has pointed out, The Strange Case Of Corporal Kite, an absolute giant at one foot tall in comparison with Hanna and Barbera's creation Inch High. It appeared in The Hotspur 1084 (Aug. 17 1957) - 1089 (Sep. 21 1957) and then, again as a text story, in The Victor 116 (May 11 1963) - 121 (Jun. 15 1963). There were some minor modifications to the text but all the heading block pictures, while superficially similar to those in The Hotspur, had been either partially or substantially redrawn. The story is set in a remote outpost in a tropical forest district, and hinges on an offensive remark made by Corporal Kite to a native African witch doctor, who casts a spell on him that lops just over five feet from his height, and then disappears from the area. When Sergeant Burton of the Royal Medical Corps turns up, he takes upon himself the job of persuading the local witch doctors to restore Kite to his correct height. Most of the humour lies in the range of only partial successes achieved by the various 'undergraduates' studying under Chaga, the chief of the society of witch doctors, and the increasing frustration of Sergeant Burton.
