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CATALOG RECORD

The Dandy Book #1953

D.C. Thomson · Series began 1939

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Charles Grigg, Dudley D. Watkins, Allan Morley, Bill Holroyd, Paddy Brennan, George Martininks: Charles Grigg, Dudley D. Watkins, Allan Morley, Bill Holroyd, Paddy Brennan, George Martinletters: Dudley D. Watkins, Allan Morley, Paddy Brennan, George Martin

Stories

  • Untitled · 1 pages

    Korky is playing soccer but is injured and stretchers off. At half time he pours glue onto his head and then returns to play. He heads the ball and it sticks to his head and he runs into the goal with it.

  • Sooty and His Shooter · 2 pages
  • Untitled · 1 pages

    Keyhole Kate is looking through a keyhole, she is approached by a man with a microphone who asks her to speak on the radio but she runs off. Later the same man shows up but this time his microphone is in the shape of a keyhole and Kate is happy to speak into it.

  • Black Bob's Ding-Dong Rescue · 5 pages
  • Hungry Horace solves a puzzle - so now he can guzzle! · 1 pages

    Horace carries a man's bag for him which is very heavy. Horace is unhappy when the man only gives him a halfpenny dated 1860. Later Horace sees a cake in a shop window with a sign inviting people to guess how many currants are in it. Horace guesses 1,860 and is correct and wins the cake.

  • Korky's pet can imitate - but he imit-ate too much! · 1 pages

    Korky buys a monkey that copies everything he does. But when it starts copying Korky eating and won't stop. A month later Korky gags the monkey and gives him back to the seller.

  • The plumber is tough - but dumber than MacDuff. · Plum MacDuff the Highlandman who never gets enough. · 1 pages
  • The tale of the two-ton pirate beater. · Cocky Sue the Cockatoo · 1 pages
  • Freddy's bit of tragic magic. · 1 pages

    Freddy want to eat a joint of meat but the owner is sitting beside it. Outside a passing magician drops his magic wand. Freddy picks up the wand and taps the meat owner on the head making him disappear. Going to the meat joint Freddy accidentally taps it with the wand and it disappears too.

  • Ma's choir is dire - The teacher's a screecher! · Old Ma Murphy - the Strong-arm School - Ma'rm · 1 pages
  • All birds have wings - But all cuckoo's don't fly! · Rusty · 1 pages
  • Donkey-doogle-quadrupot - Wuzzy's an ass, but the boy is not. · Wuzzy Wizz Magic is his biz. · 1 pages
  • The boy who's magic in the jungles. Is full of tricks - and full of bungles! · Black Magic Bongo · 6.5 pages
  • Wily Smiley the Jungle Joker · 0.5 pages

    Wily is sitting on a swing hanging from a tree branch. A goat butts him hard from behind. Wily, on the swing, goes right over the branch and back down the over side (in an arc) and his feet kick the goat from behind.

  • Freddy Fly tries - and Freddy Fly flies! · 1 pages

    Freddy wants some cakes but he owner locks them in the larder. Freddy flies through the larder keyhole but finds Septimus Spider guarding the cakes. In the last panel Freddy is seen five miles away saying "Phew! In future I'll leave keyholes to Keyhole Kate!"

  • See how Noah travelled when his plot unravelled! · Noah Lott He Knows a Lot of Rot! · 1 pages
  • Who dares shift that royal paw. To pull a tooth from the royal jaw? · Daring Doyle and the Royal Gumboil · 5.5 pages
  • Wily Smiley the Jungle Joker · 0.5 pages

    An elephant squirts water at Wily through a knothole in a fence. Wily puts a piece of bamboo in the knothole and bends it back so the other end is in a higher knothole. When the elephant squirts more water it comes back through the higher knothole and soaks him.

  • Dan is nearly as black as jet - But he isn't the sun-tan champion yet. · 1 pages
  • A quick sail for a sick whale. · Cocky Sue the Cockatoo · 1 pages
  • Korky's in a hurly-burly with people who are all called "Curly." · 1 pages
  • Good-bye to Ma's hopes - ALL her pupils are dopes! · Old Ma Murphy the Strong-arm School-ma'rm · 1 pages
  • Why did the jam roll? - Because Horace's iced cake went for a stroll. · 1 pages
  • Poor Charlie feels he's in a fog - The cake he baked was for a dog! · Charlie Chutney the comical cook · 1 pages
  • Smoke billows up 'tween the chief and Wuzzy - Till the chief sees only a fuzzy Wuzzy. · 1 pages
  • The lad who's glad to make things hum - With tricks and shocks that will strike you dumb! · Shocker Jock the boy from the wonder world. · 7 pages
  • Three cooks with one hat wouldn't look well - But one with three hats is just swell! · Charlie Chutney the comical cook · 1 pages
  • Look at Sneezer, he feels faint - He gets a cure for what he ain't! · Julius Sneezer the sneezing Caeser. · 1 pages
  • With gum the pirates their ship defend - But then they come to a sticky end! · Cocky Sue the Cockatoo · 1 pages
  • For spying and prying and clever fun - Katie takes the currant bun. · 1 pages
  • Into the pot the rabbit flew - But it's Plum MacDuff who's in the stew! · Plum MacDuff the Highlandman who never gets enough. · 1 pages
  • Stand clear! Make way! Beware! Ahoy! - Here comes the desperate telegram boy! · 1 pages
  • Dad is laid low, laid out and laid up - And he takes it lying down! · Rusty · 1 pages
  • Oh, my head! says Fred, with feeling - He thought he was okay on ceiling! · 1 pages
  • Who put the "head" in hedge? The answer is Korky! · 1 pages
  • The mighty-muscled Sheriff with the mightiest mount in the west. · Jumbo Jake · 7 pages
  • A hound shows how well he can - Take Sooty and a Lord for a ride. · Sooty and His Shooter · 2 pages
  • A queer kind of pet is Willie's Pobble - Poor Willie can't keep him out of trobble! · 7 pages
  • Here's where Wuzzy has a lean - On a tree that can't be seen! · Wuzzy Wizz magic is his biz. · 1 pages
  • Here's where Wuzzy has a lean - On a tree that can't be seen! · Wuzzy Wizz magic is his biz. · 1 pages
  • Open the door, Richard, shouts Old Ma - But all she hears is a faint "Ha-ha!" · Old Ma Murphy - the Strong-arm School - Ma'rm · 1 pages
  • A cure at last! And Sneezer agrees - But he doesn't feel happy, he wants to sneeze! · Julius Sneezer the sneezing Caeser. · 1 pages
  • Beneath Kate's very eyes and nose - Are keyholes everywhere she goes. · 1 pages
  • How Korky hatched a plot to dig his plot. · 1 pages
  • Grand buns they are, but not for eating - The customer wants them just for heating! · Charlie Chutney the comical cook · 1 pages
  • Lummy, isn't Horace rummy? - Like a mummy with a tummy! · 1 pages
  • A bull in tent is better than - A bull intent on goring Dan! · 1 pages
  • The honour of King Richard the Lionheart is in this boys hands - And in this bird's beak! · Wild Wulf the boy keeper of the King's beasts. · 6 pages
  • The Nicker · 4 pages
  • Drake's Drummer Boy · 6 pages
  • Big thrills with a tough who treats cowboys rough - But he's glad to give in to Bill's cowboy of tin. · Bonanza Bill the tricky trader of Hilly-Billy city. · 6 pages
  • Korky Cat should never, never have taken this toddler up the river. · 1 pages

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