The Dandy
#458
(September 2nd, 1950)
D.C. Thomson,
1950 Series
- Price
- 2D [0-0-2 GBP]
- Pages
- 12
- Indicia Frequency
- every Tuesday
- On-sale Date
- 1950-08-29
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd
- Brand
- ?
- Barcode
- ?
[no title indexed]
Korky the Cat / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Korky goes a-stalking -
- Genre
- humour; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Korky
[no title indexed]
Freddy the fearless fly / comic story / 0.33 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Allan Morley
- Inks
- Allan Morley
- Colors
- ? (red and black)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My favourite pudding!
- Genre
- humour; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Freddy the fearless fly; man
[no title indexed]
Wuzzy Wiz magic is his biz / comic story / 0.34 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Holroyd
- Inks
- Bill Holroyd
- Colors
- ? (red and black)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey, Wiz, lend me that rope a minute.
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Wuzzy Wiz; Mr. Miller
[no title indexed]
Hungry Horace / comic story / 0.33 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Allan Morley
- Inks
- Allan Morley
- Colors
- ? (red and black)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- For you, Horace!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Hungry Horace; Baker; Professor Poop
[no title indexed]
Desperate Dan / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look at this huge worm I've just dug up
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Desperate Dan; Aunt Aggie; Professor Hotpot
[no title indexed]
Long Tom's Treasure / text story / 1.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Roderick Stark hit the water with a splash.
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Roderick Stark
[no title indexed]
Cocky Sue the Cockatoo / comic story / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What a gloomy island!
- Genre
- humour; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Cocky Sue
[no title indexed]
Lion Boy / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This part of Central Africa was wild and strange,
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- Raboo (boy); Rajah (lion)
Indexer Notes
Radio is a white boy who was lost in Africa when still a baby and has a Rajah as a companion.
A one-off story complete this issue.
Twelve panels with captions numbered 1-12. No speech balloons.
[no title indexed]
Peggy and her pop's peg-leg / text story / 1.66 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Big Mike Parker and his sister Peggy halted their horse and gazed at the sign-post
- Genre
- humour; children; western-frontier
- Characters
- Mike Parker; Peggy Parker; Hiram Rigg; Buck Bindle; Luke Larrigan; Chippy Wood (town carpenter)
- Keywords
- Snakebite City
[no title indexed]
Plum MacDuff / comic story / 0.34 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh, I'm tired out with hunting.
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Plum MacDuff
[no title indexed]
Barney's Bear / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Phew! It was hot!
- Genre
- humour; animal
- Characters
- Smarty (bear cub); Barney Brennan; Digger Merry
Indexer Notes
Twelve panels with captions numbered 1-12. No speech balloons.
[no title indexed]
Keyhole Kate / 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
- Here's a beauty!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Keyhole Kate; man in house
[no title indexed]
Rusty / comic story / 0.67 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Paddy Brennan
- Inks
- Paddy Brennan
- Colors
- ? (red and black)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Rusty, take Rover for a walk and I'll give you sixpence!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Rusty; Mrs. Birch; police constable; angry dog owner and his son
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Korky goes a-stalking -"]
Korky the Cat -
1.
["My favourite pudding!"]
Freddy the fearless fly -
2.
["Hey, Wiz, lend me that rope a minute."]
Wuzzy Wiz magic is his biz -
3.
["For you, Horace!"]
Hungry Horace -
4.
["Look at this huge worm I've just dug up"]
Desperate Dan -
5.
["Roderick Stark hit the water with a splash."]
Long Tom's Treasure -
6.
["What a gloomy island!"]
Cocky Sue the Cockatoo -
7.
["This part of Central Africa was wild and strange,"]
Lion Boy -
8.
["Big Mike Parker and his sister Peggy halted their horse and gazed at the sign-post"]
Peggy and her pop's peg-leg -
9.
["Gosh, I'm tired out with hunting."]
Plum MacDuff -
10.
["Phew! It was hot!"]
Barney's Bear -
11.
["Here's a beauty!"]
Keyhole Kate -
12.
["Rusty, take Rover for a walk and I'll give you sixpence!"]
Rusty
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- Katy Hayhurst
- Stephen Mitchell
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