Cracker (comic)

Cracker was a 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
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.

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