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Yep it isLittle Squelchy Thing wrote:It's looking like an excellent annual, will have to get hold of a copy pronto!
Also, is that a little Harry from Harry and his Hippo I spy on the inside back cover in the above photos?
Oh well looks as though I won't be able to flog it for astronomical amounts in a few years time if all of em have the errorLew Stringer wrote:The two copies I have are the same so the whole print run must have that error. Mind you, from a personal viewpoint I'm pleased they repeated a page rather than missed one out. That said, I hope the repeated page didn't replace anyone else's work.
Thanks for the kind words. I really enjoyed writing/drawing those three Smasher pages. I'd be more than happy to do it for the weekly if required.
Incidentally, Smasher's dog Pongo appeared in the 1960s occasionally so I thought I'd bring him back for that episode, along with Smasher's old catchphrase "Run like fun!"
Lew
It's the first new Dandy annual I've bough for donkeys years glad I did tbhThen I'm massively jealous of Paul, because Greedy Pigg is the strip I'd have picked if given a choice! Ah, well, maybe I'll draw one just for fun...Lew Stringer wrote:Regarding the artist of Greedy Pigg and Jocks and Geordies in the annual, it looks like Paul Palmer's work to me.
You never know. People have stupid names in comics all the time. I like to think their full, real, given, actual names are Boss Badd, Fingers Badd and Knuck Badd. (Why not? "Cuddles" and "Dimples" are stupid names, too...)Digifiend wrote:We don't actually know the Badd Lads' names at all. Boss, Fingers, and Knuck (short for Knucklehead) are clearly just nicknames.
Exactly. Most comics aren't stupid enough! Keep comics daft, I say.PaulTwist wrote:You never know. People have stupid names in comics all the time. I like to think their full, real, given, actual names are Boss Badd, Fingers Badd and Knuck Badd. (Why not? "Cuddles" and "Dimples" are stupid names, too...)Digifiend wrote:We don't actually know the Badd Lads' names at all. Boss, Fingers, and Knuck (short for Knucklehead) are clearly just nicknames.
To speak nothing of Dennis T. Menace, Roger T. Dodger, etc., as introduced in the Beano Football Special...PaulTwist wrote:You never know. People have stupid names in comics all the time. I like to think their full, real, given, actual names are Boss Badd, Fingers Badd and Knuck Badd. (Why not? "Cuddles" and "Dimples" are stupid names, too...)