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Thanks, Kashgar.

I agree with you about the "tidiness" in the translation (a "translation" that was completely unnecessary to begin with, I think). But it's an old Swedish tradition to translate names in English into other names in English. ;-) The Thing from Fantastic Four used to be called "Big ...

philcom55 wrote:I'd say it's almost certainly one of the early Charlie Peace stories by Eric Bradbury who drew him for the first six months or so.

- Phil Rushton

Thanks, philcom.

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Finally found a picture of the aforementioned "Simon Smart". As Sir-L pointed out to me earlier, it's most probably a Swedish translation of "Charlie Peace".

http://seriewikin.serieframjandet.se/images/1/1f/Simon_Smart.png

(It is Charlie Peace, isn't it? Who is the artist?)


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Phil -- thanks, but no, "Simon Smart" was an old man with long hair and a facial stubble. And a trenchcoat, IIRC. Looked like a real loser, but somehow always managed to escape the law.

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Thank you, colcool007 and Kashgar.

Digifiend and Sir-L -- "Simon Smart" was in the Swedish Buster comic and, I think, Serie-Nytt as well.


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Another one, who did "Kamikaze Kid", the strip about the speedway star Steve Richmond, from DC Thomson?

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Many thanks!

I'll surely be back with more questions.


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Another question: in Swedish comic mags in the 1970s, there was a British comic called "Simon Smart" about a criminal and antihero who looked as a bum with long filthy hair, but was a genius able to escape the long arm of the law, time and again.

Does this one ring a bell? (Sadly I have no picture ...

Any sports comics experts here?

Does anyone know the name of the artist who drew the features "The Tough Game" and "File of Fame" in Tiger in the early 1980s? (I'm almost certain that the artist of the two strips are one and the same.)

And who were the artists of "The Marks Brothers" and "The ...

At last one that I do know. The story was originally published in the UK as They Can't Tame Tasker in Bullet in 1977. The artist is Pete Sutherland.

Did Sutherland do other sports strips for Bullet ? The art style seems reminiscent of Midge (a strip about a weightlifter) and Twisty (the fotballer ...