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This was along the lines of Beano and Dandy and I took it for a while in the 60s. It had a title character on page 1 that would be instantly banned today - a caricature of what I think was some kind of black native person with big lips, wearing some kind of grass skirt! It beggars belief today that things were quite acceptable back then! The only other character I can remember is 'Jeff ye Jolly Jester'. Anybody else remember this 'classic' publication? ?

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  • PizzaMunki
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    I loved these annuals when I was a lad. Around the mid to late seventies. Far better characters, stories, art artwork than any other comic of the period imho. The character you mention was the infamous Sparky himself! Although it's claimed that he arrived in a spaceship and was intended to be a space alien, he certainly looked like an amalgamation of all of the very worst turn of the century racist stereotypes. He was long gone before I started reading.

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