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The 12½p Buytonic Boy was a fictional character who had his own strip in the UK comic Krazy. It first appeared in issue 1, dated 16 October 1976. The strip was about a boy called Steve Ford, who, after receiving a special tonic from Professor Nutz for the cost of half a dollar (or 12½p), gained super powers. He would later be hired by the Ever So Secret Service, using his super powers to interfere with the plans of the villainous NME spies. The name and strip itself was a pun on The Six Million Dollar Man television series. After Krazy finished in 1978, he became a Whizzer and Chips Whizzkid, and stayed in that comic until early 1986. Around the time the half penny ceased being legal tender, the strip was retitled The Buytonic Boy. It would later be retitled to Super Steve, and, after that, Super Steve vs NME Nasties. For much of its life the strip was drawn by Robert Nixon, but after he left IPC to go and work for D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, Frank McDiarmid replaced him.