Cracker (comic)

Cracker (comic)

"Cracker" was a British comic printed by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd that ran from the issues dated 18 January 1975 to 11 September 1976, when it merged with "The Beezer". Its strips included:
*Big-Head Branny - The Strong-Arm Janny - a surly and vindictive janitor
*Billy The Kid - a strip borrowing heavily from Dennis the Menace, featuring a tearaway with black bushy hair and a mischievous spotted dog called Pongo
*Castaways On Planet Doom
*Curly's Commandos - a small gang of children organised along army lines
*Dunder Ed - who was clumsy
*Hector The Collector
*Iron Hand - a secret agent with a metal hand, moved to Beezer.
*Jimmy Jest
*Joe Soap
*Little 'Orror
*Scrapper
*Simple Spyman - a spy with a very long beard, dark glasses, and dark-brimmed hat
*The Snookums - a misbehaved class whose strip consisted of large 'action' panels containing with numerous gags
*Spookie Cookie - a ghost cook in a haunted manor
*Spookum School - yet another strip derivative of The Bash Street Kids, but set in a haunted castle where the children are ghosts
*The Head-Hunter's Of Skookum Skool
*The Nutters
*Young Foo - The Kung Fu Kid - a Chinese schoolboy martial artist, complete with bare feet as part of his school uniform. Each week he would feud with Bully Basher

They had a Mad Ads competition on the back page. Readers would send in an ad for a mad contraption and if it was printed, they would get 1 pound.

Some material from Cracker appears in Classics from the Comics.

ee also

*List of DC Thomson Publications


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