As previously established though I love British comics I am not the world’s biggest fan of the output of publisher DC Thomson which tended to skew younger than their rival Fleetway. But I am not completely immune to their appeal; in the past I’ve written about my love of two adventure strips that appeared in the boys weekly The Beano, Billy the Cat and General Jumbo. Over the years they appeared with less and less frequently as the comic became increasingly humor centric but new stories did appear in the comics oversized annual, The Beano Book, all through the 00′s. And thanks to a helpful scanner I’ve finally been able to read them and now so can you.

What both features have in common is pure and simple premises crazy rice in wish fulfillment. Which is amply demonstrated in this nice little General Jumbo story from 2006′s Beano Book; it would explain more, but I believe what I mean will be instantly self-evident .

Then we have Billy the Cat; I’ve long been a proponent of the idea that the only people who would “really” fight crime in costumes are children, something the creators of the strip clearly believed as well.

And finally, here’s a Billy the Cat/General Jumbo crossover from the 2008 Beano Book written by Kev F Sutherland and drawn by Nigel Dobbyn. I am of the considered opinion that this is awesome sauce.