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There was a strip drawn by Jim Bleach, where the main character was called Zebediah Floyd, a southerner American with a beaver "hat" (or whatever it 's called) just like the one in that Tomahawk comic, and had a monkey companion called Alexander. Due to some legacy he was appointed leader of a british grenadier regiment during WWII and he always thrived despite the efforts of the regiment 's officers. Does the name of the strip comes to mind?

Ramirez, you are looking for The Coonskin Grenadier (aka Zebadiah Flood) which was a WWII comedy series from the Hornet which was then transferred to the Hotspur when they merged in 1975. The original artist for the series was the talented Pete Sutherland with Jim Bleach doing the one shots that would feature in the annuals.

The Floods held a honorary Sergeant post in the Royal Grenadiers (King George's Own) due to a warrant granted by King George III in 1760. He was RSM Minchin's worst nightmare come to life.

Excellent, once again...

These are two page spreads from a story I 've identified to be "Escape from El Santos" and was published in Victor. However, I don 't recognize the artist. Does he seem familiar? I know I 've seen more of his work, but I don 't know his name.

Also, there was a strip called "Steve 's super spray" drawn by Eric Bradbury. It involved (obviously) a super spray that made things defy gravity and foreign spies trying to steal it from Steve. The story I 've read is the first, and my question is, did it actually become a series or never made it beyond the origin episode?

I think the artists name is Terry Patrick.

Yes, I believe it is him, especialy after comparing the pages I posted with some more of his stuff. Thanks for the help Chris...

chrisb wrote:I think the artists name is Terry Patrick.

You're right Chris. I also think that the story is from a late 1980s Victor Annual.

I 'm trying to find out who the artist of this is. He was a regular on football strips, and "Number nine Frankestein" was also his work for those who were reading it in the '80s. The Victor fansite has not identified him yet. Anyone here might know who it is?

R. Charles Roylance.

Thank you Kashgar. I had associated Rylance completely with the "Captain Hurricane" strips, that my mind could not grasp the obvious similarities of his style to his work on other comic strips...

Yes. The sheer volume of work he did on the Captain Hurricane does tend to overshadow his other work not only as a strip artist but also as an illustrator of books. The name is Roylance not Roylance BTW.

Kashgar wrote:R. Charles Roylance.

It's so obvious when you say it now! He did a fair whack of work for the Victor in the late 1970s and 1980s. One story he did was Send For Saxon, a comedy detective story. I mainly associate his D C Thomson work with football for some reason. I will need to have a dig and see if I can find any other examples of his work.

Oops! Roylance not Rylance. Stupid predictive text. Sorry about that! He had also worked for Thomsons in the 1950's for the Topper doing feature pages like the occasional series 'Famous Kings and Queens' in 1954/1955.

Two new inquiries. One is a football strip named "The neighborhood united" in greek. There was a strip called "United alley" in Hotspur and I 'm suspecting this could be it, but I couldn 't find any images of the original. Has anyone read it to confirm or contradict?

The other one is probably a one-off story called "Brigas the British" in greek. Its original title is probably something similar. I guess identifying this will be harder, so I don 't anticipate much...

The first one is "Carr Street United" from early seventies Tiger. The second one I don't know but I think it's from Hotspur.