Tin-Can Tommy
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Tin-Can Tommy (The Clockwork Boy) was a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, featuring Tommy, the clockwork 'son' of Professor Lee and his wife. It first appeared on the back page of issue 1, dated 30 July 1938, where we learn that it was built due to the death of their own son a year earlier. A few years later came the addition of a clockwork sister called Babe, and a pet cat called Clanky. The strip ran until the 1940s.
In issue 3185 (a special 65th anniversary issue, dated 2 August 2003) he met Bea, Dennis the Menace's baby sister. Template:UK-comics-stub