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Characters Included:
The broadsheet sized first issue of 'The Beezer' first appeared 21st January 1956 and introduced the carrot topped 'Ginger' (Dudley Watkins) to the comic world. Other debutants in the first issue were 'The Voyage Of The Bushwhacker ', 'Mick On The Moon', 'Lone Wolfe' by Ron Smith, 'Pop Dick and Harry' by \carmichael, 'Nosey Parker' by Allan Morley, 'Nero And Zero', 'Calamity Jane' by Hugh Morren, 'The Banana Bunch' by Leo Baxendale, 'The Hillys And The Billys' by George Martin, 'Big Ed The Heavyweight Chump', 'Charlie Chick Up to Every Trick', 'Mumbo And Jumbo', 'The Pair From The Jungle', 'Smart Alice She Knows All The Answers', 'Shorty The Happy Little Chappy' and 'The Kings Of Castaway Island' by James Walker.
BABY CROCKET This character originally appeared in a strip entitled "Wee Fella" (1946-1954) in a magazine called "The Peoples Journal", and he also appeared in the nursery comic Bimbo/Little Star (1961-1976)
SPACE PATROL Which appeared in issues 558 to 583, was apparently based on the Arthur Provis animated TV series of the same name .
The Badd Lads; Boss, Fingers, and Knuckles - always up to no good and getting caught
The Black Sapper with his 'Mole', a burrowing machine. (I'm not sure if I'm mixing two stories there)
Danger Man with his 'Zoomar' space ship, later introducing the 'Danger Twins' two youngsters who each had a smaller version of Danger Mans' space ship and lived with him on a satellite base
The Iron Fish, originally piloted by an adult, and eventually becoming two 'Iron Fish' piloted by a boy and a girl - all the names escape me.
Kelly's Eye - a man called Kelly who had a mystical amulet that provided him with some sort of power and a variety of narrow escapes. |