![]() ![]() These characters often reappeared, but it wasn't always the same character that had been seen previously. Bedbug was portrayed as a sleepy character, often seen in bed or at least in bedclothes. Humbug, for instance was of a miserable disposition. The other inhabitants of this world were also bugs, with their names reflecting their personality. Doodlebug, a slightly surreal tale of a bug in a comic-book world who could draw and remove things with a magic pencil.Dick Turban, Desert Highwayman, a boy desert raider who rode a camel.Drawn by Barrie Appleby and later moved to Hoot before joining Dimples in The Dandy. Cannonball Kid, "He's Football Crazy", similar to a Beano strip called Ball Boy, later reprinted as The Dandy's Owen Goal.Blubba and the Bear, an Eskimo in conflict with a polar bear trying to steal his fish, who later appeared in the Dandy as reprints from number 3408 but ended when Dandy Xtreme started.Big 'n Bud was a double-act style comic strip: they observed various scenarios, and then made jokes based upon what they observed.Drawn by John Geering, it survived the merger with The Dandy and that comic's eventual closure in the 2010s, moving to The Beano. Bananaman was its main strip, and by far its most popular. ![]() Ltd, Nutty was an attempt to create a more lively and chaotic comic compared to many on sale at the time. Nutty was a British comic magazine that ran for 292 issues from 16 February 1980 to 14 September 1985, when it merged with The Dandy. ![]()
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