The Dandy Comic
#167
(February 8th, 1941)
D.C. Thomson,
1937 Series
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 2D [0-0-2 GBP]
- Pages
- 16
- Indicia Frequency
- every Friday
- On-sale Date
- 1941-02-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd
- Brand
- ?
[no title indexed]
Korky the Cat / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Poor Korky's dressed in spikes of ice
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humour
- Characters
- Korky; fishmonger; delivery man
Indexer Notes
No dialogue or captions.
[no title indexed]
Our gang / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Just think of it, kids, there's a circus in the town
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Alfalfa Switzer; Scotty Beckett; Darla Hood; Billy Thomas; Porky Lee; Patsy May; Spanky McFarland; Buckwheat Thomas; Pongo the dog
Indexer Notes
Panels with speech balloons plus typeset captions underneath.
[no title indexed]
Old King Cole / text story / 1.8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Fred Sturrock (illustration)
- Inks
- Fred Sturrock (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Old King Cole, the cheery ruler of the small state of Koronia,
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Old King Cole; Willie Puffer; Mr. Puffer (his father)
[no title indexed]
Dopey Dinah / comic story / 0.2 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh! I'd better answer the telephone!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Dinah; her mum
Indexer Notes
Four panel strip.
[no title indexed]
Wildfire the war horse / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Glass
- Inks
- Jack Glass
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dawn was breaking on a high hill which overlooked a German prison camp.
- Genre
- adventure; animal
- Characters
- Wildfire (horse); Tim Holt
Indexer Notes
Eight panels with captions numbered 1 to 8 underneath, no speech balloons.
[no title indexed]
Desperate Dan / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hot diggety-dogs!
- Genre
- humour; western-frontier
- Characters
- Desperate Dan; zoo keeper
[no title indexed]
Barney Boko / comic story / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He's broken the clapper
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Barney Boko; caretaker
[no title indexed]
The wild man of the woods / comic story / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wow! Hippo de big bully has pinched de see-saw!
- Genre
- humour; jungle
[no title indexed]
Hungry Horace / comic story / 0.34 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Allan Morley
- Inks
- Allan Morley
- Colors
- ? (red and black)
- Letters
- Allan Morley
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'll hide these bullseyes where Horace can't find them!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Hungry Horace; boy
[no title indexed]
Freddy the fearless fly / comic story / 0.33 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Allan Morley
- Inks
- Allan Morley
- Colors
- ? (red and black)
- Letters
- Allan Morley
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I wonder if this old chap will let me me play on his bald head?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Freddy the fearless fly; bald man; boy with balloon
[no title indexed]
Hair-oil Hal your barber pal / comic story / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There! I've put on the hair restorer you wanted. That'll be two shillings please!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Hair-oil Hal (barber); bald customer
[no title indexed]
Meddlesome Matty / comic story / 0.34 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What are you going to do with that bottle, sailor?
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Meddlesome Matty; old sailor
[no title indexed]
The adventures of Dick Turpin's kids / text story / 1.67 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Ramsbottom (illustration)
- Inks
- George Ramsbottom (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All day long Tom and Mary Turpin had been kept in the hut
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Tom Turpin; Mary Turpin (his sister); Nick Porter (villain)
Indexer Notes
Includes an advert for Jak the dragon killer strip returning next issue.
[no title indexed]
Addie and Hermy the nasty nazis / comic story / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look, mine leader, there is der great slice of toast.
- Genre
- humour; war
- Characters
- Addie [Adolph Hitler]; Hermy [Hermann Göring]; policeman
Indexer Notes
Wartime propaganda strip starred caricatures of Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring.
[no title indexed]
Little white chief of the Cherokees / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A fair-haired British boy strode determinedly into the mouth of a cave
- Genre
- adventure; children; western-frontier
- Characters
- Harry Martin; King beaver (his pet giant beaver); Tuwani (outlawed chief - villain)
Indexer Notes
Twelve panels with captions numbered 1 to 12, no speech balloons.
[no title indexed]
Brave little comrade of the cowardly lion / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- James Clark (illustration)
- Inks
- James Clark (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Nowhere in all the wide world was there a country stranger than the Dark Lands.
- Genre
- adventure; animal
- Characters
- Sammy Squeaker (mouse); Princess of the Dark Lands (evil witch); Prince Victor
[no title indexed]
Keyhole Kate / comic story / 0.4 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Allan Morley
- Inks
- Allan Morley
- Colors
- ? (red and black)
- Letters
- Allan Morley
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Coo! An apple still on the tree -
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Keyhole Kate; Cuthbert
[no title indexed]
Podge / comic story / 0.6 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Eric Roberts
- Inks
- Eric Roberts
- Colors
- ? (red and black)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Coo, look! A horse shoe!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Podge; policeman
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Poor Korky's dressed in spikes of ice"]
Korky the Cat -
1.
["Just think of it, kids, there's a circus in the town"]
Our gang -
2.
["Old King Cole, the cheery ruler of the small state of Koronia,"]
Old King Cole -
3.
["Gosh! I'd better answer the telephone!"]
Dopey Dinah -
4.
["Dawn was breaking on a high hill which overlooked a German prison camp."]
Wildfire the war horse -
5.
["Hot diggety-dogs!"]
Desperate Dan -
6.
["He's broken the clapper"]
Barney Boko -
7.
["Wow! Hippo de big bully has pinched de see-saw!"]
The wild man of the woods -
8.
["I'll hide these bullseyes where Horace can't find them!"]
Hungry Horace -
9.
["I wonder if this old chap will let me me play on his bald head?"]
Freddy the fearless fly -
10.
["There! I've put on the hair restorer you wanted. That'll be two shillings please!"]
Hair-oil Hal your barber pal -
11.
["What are you going to do with that bottle, sailor?"]
Meddlesome Matty -
12.
["All day long Tom and Mary Turpin had been kept in the hut"]
The adventures of Dick Turpin's kids -
13.
["Look, mine leader, there is der great slice of toast."]
Addie and Hermy the nasty nazis -
14.
["A fair-haired British boy strode determinedly into the mouth of a cave"]
Little white chief of the Cherokees -
15.
["Nowhere in all the wide world was there a country stranger than the Dark Lands."]
Brave little comrade of the cowardly lion -
16.
["Coo! An apple still on the tree -"]
Keyhole Kate -
17.
["Coo, look! A horse shoe!"]
Podge
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- Katy Hayhurst
- Stephen Mitchell
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