Nutty
#4
(March 8th, 1980)
D.C. Thomson,
1980 Series
- Price
- 0.10 GBP
- Pages
- 24
- Indicia Frequency
- every Saturday
- On-sale Date
- 1980-03-08
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd
- Brand
- ?
[no title indexed]
activity / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Nutty's special Doodlebug contest
- Characters
- Doodlebug
Indexer Notes
Competition asking readers to draw the Uglybug in the box provided. Prize is a mini television.
[no title indexed]
Big 'n' Bud / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh-oh! Rain! I'm gong to get wet. Unless...
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Big; Bud; Librarian
Indexer Notes
Big and Bud are friends, one very tall and the other very short.
[no title indexed]
Pearl Potter the producer's daughter / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mr. Cecil Beedimill, chief director at "Potters Productions" is a very unhappy man - and who could blame him?
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Pearl Potter; Cecil Beedimill
[no title indexed]
Mitey Joe / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It must be great to win a bike race and be in all the newspapers!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Mitey Joe
[no title indexed]
The School Belles / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Listen, girls - we've been challenged to a friendly hockey match by the Emily Simper Girls' School.
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Daisy; Violet; Rose; Marigold; Miss Buttercup
Indexer Notes
The Belles are pupils at St. Onion's Finishing School for Young Ladies. Their pictures and names appear at the feature masthead.
Monster Mush
Steevie Star / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In a sinister castle laboratory -
- Genre
- humour; children; satire-parody
- Characters
- Steevie Star [as Baron Frank N. Stine]; Ygor; monster
Indexer Notes
Spoof of Frankenstein.
[no title indexed]
Peter Pest / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My new boyfriend, Dave, says he's taking me somewhere exciting today, Peter.
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Peter; Doris (his sister); Dave (her boyfriend)
[no title indexed]
Pig Tales / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Swill up! Come and get it!
- Genre
- humour; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Poppa; Momma; Piggles
Indexer Notes
A pig version of the Three Bears from the Beano and drawn by the same artist.
[no title indexed]
Wacky the crackpot inventor / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Andy Green has scored again! This man is a goal-scoring machine!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Wacky; mum; referee
[no title indexed]
The Wild Rovers / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You horrible hounds won't escape this time!
- Genre
- humour; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- The Wild Rovers [Hunk; Magnus Peek; Singh Songh; Patch; Lady; Dogsbody; Silly Villy; Taff; Haggis]; Basil Crumb (dog catcher)
Indexer Notes
The dogs and Basil Crumb are all pictured and named in the feature masthead.
Centre spread.
[no title indexed]
Dick Turban Desert Highwayman / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Martin Baxendale
- Inks
- Martin Baxendale
- Colors
- ? (red and black)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At Fort Cortina, in the Sahara -
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Dick Turban; Caramel (his camel); Capitaine Blownaparte
[no title indexed]
Doodlebug / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is a super game, readers. I'm having a ball!
- Genre
- humour; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Doodlebug; Humbug
[no title indexed]
General Jumbo / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As you've nothing better to do, Jumbo Johnson, you can go down to the supermarket for me.
- Genre
- adventure; children; military
- Characters
- Jumbo Johnson; Professor Carter; Jumbo's mum
Indexer Notes
General Jumbo has a miniature toy army controlled by a panel on his wrist. Strip originally appeared in the Beano.
[no title indexed]
Scoopy / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gordon Bell
- Inks
- Gordon Bell
- Colors
- ? (red and black)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You won't need all that diving gear, Scoopy -
- Genre
- humour; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Scoopy (dog reporter); Editor; Cornelius (Editor's cat); Jonah (cameo)
[no title indexed]
Samuel Creeps the teacher's pet / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wonder where softy Samuel is?
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Samuel Creeps; Cecil (florist)
[no title indexed]
The Bar-O Boys / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ma West is busy in the farmyard kitchen -
- Genre
- humour; western-frontier
- Characters
- Ma West; her two sons
Indexer Notes
Wild west characters based in England.
[no title indexed]
Doodlebug's postbag / letters page / 1 page
- Characters
- Doodlebug
Indexer Notes
Jokes, drawings and letters submitter by readers with pictures of Doodlebug.
[no title indexed]
Ethel Red / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On the high seas -
- Genre
- humour; children; historical
- Characters
- Ethel Red; dad
Indexer Notes
Ethel Red is an ancient viking.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Big 'n' Bud -
1.
["Nutty's special Doodlebug contest"]
-
2.
["Oh-oh! Rain! I'm gong to get wet. Unless..."]
Big 'n' Bud -
3.
["Mr. Cecil Beedimill, chief director at "Potters Productions" is a very unhappy man - and who could blame him?"]
Pearl Potter the producer's daughter -
4.
["It must be great to win a bike race and be in all the newspapers!"]
Mitey Joe -
5.
["Listen, girls - we've been challenged to a friendly hockey match by the Emily Simper Girls' School."]
The School Belles -
6.
Monster Mush
Steevie Star -
7.
["My new boyfriend, Dave, says he's taking me somewhere exciting today, Peter."]
Peter Pest -
8.
["Swill up! Come and get it!"]
Pig Tales -
9.
["Andy Green has scored again! This man is a goal-scoring machine!"]
Wacky the crackpot inventor -
10.
["You horrible hounds won't escape this time!"]
The Wild Rovers -
11.
["At Fort Cortina, in the Sahara -"]
Dick Turban Desert Highwayman -
12.
["This is a super game, readers. I'm having a ball!"]
Doodlebug -
13.
["As you've nothing better to do, Jumbo Johnson, you can go down to the supermarket for me."]
General Jumbo -
14.
["You won't need all that diving gear, Scoopy -"]
Scoopy -
15.
["Wonder where softy Samuel is?"]
Samuel Creeps the teacher's pet -
16.
["Ma West is busy in the farmyard kitchen -"]
The Bar-O Boys -
17.
[no title indexed]
Doodlebug's postbag -
18.
["On the high seas -"]
Ethel Red -
19.
["Every super-hero has a secret hide-out."]
Bananaman
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- Stephen Mitchell
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