Cracker (comic)
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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.