Baby Crockett

British comic strip

Baby Crockett was one of the longest running comic strips that ran from The Beezer issue 34 (September 1956) to Beezer 1809 (September 1990). He continued in the merged Beezer and Topper until its demise in 1993, and would appear in all the Beezer annuals and summer specials until they ended in 2002. He also appeared in several of the Dandy Comic Libraries over the years.

In appearance he was a toddler aged around three wearing red shorts & pumps & spoke in a childlike manner with phases such as "Me Thinks" and "Me don't like baffs", occasionally he was troubled by a bully called "Masher Molloy", with Baby normally coming out on top.

Baby Crockett also appeared in young children's comic Bimbo from 1961 to 1972 and its successor Little Star 1972–1976. In both cases the strip was drawn by Bill Ritchie. Baby Crockett himself was a character derived from the earlier Wee Fella, a strip drawn by Davy Law for Thomson's magazine-newspaper The People's Journal from 20 April 1946 to 6 February 1954.[1] It was sometimes drawn by Bob Dewar as well.

## References

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1. ^ "Beezer comic | Beezer Comics | Beezer Comics sale". Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2011.

## External links

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* The Beezer's Golden Years

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* The Beano
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* Fun Section in The Sunday Post

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Humour comics|

* The Beano
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* Cracker
* The Dandy
* EPIC Magazine
* Fun Size Comics
* Hoot
* The Magic Comic
* Nutty
* Plug
* Sparky
* The Topper

Pre-school comics|

* Bimbo
* The Magic Comic
* Twinkle

Notable strips|

* Alf Tupper
* Baby Crockett
* Bananaman
* The Bash Street Kids
* Beryl the Peril
* Black Bob
* Biffo the Bear
* Big Eggo
* The Broons
* Calamity James
* Cuddles and Dimples
* Dennis the Menace
* Desperate Dan
* Ginger
* Gnasher
* Ivy the Terrible
* Jonah
* Keyhole Kate
* Korky the Cat
* Little Plum
* Lord Snooty
* Matt Braddock
* Mickey the Monkey
* Minnie the Minx
* Nero and Zero
* The Numskulls
* Oor Wullie
* Pansy Potter
* Send for Kelly
* Roger the Dodger
* Tricky Dicky
* Willy Nilly
* Winker Watson
* Wilson the Wonder Athlete
* Wolf of Kabul

Comic annuals|

* The Beano Annual
* The Beezer Book
* The Bimbo Book
* The Dandy Annual
* The Hotspur Book for Boys
* The Sparky Book
* The Topper Book
* The Victor Book for Boys
* Warlord Book for Boys

Character annuals|

* Bananaman Annual
* The Bash Street Kids Annual
* Beryl the Peril Annual
* Black Bob Book
* The Broons Annual
* Dennis the Menace Annual
* The Desperate Dan Book
* Oor Wullie Annual

Notable artists|

* Barrie Appleby
* Nigel Auchterlounie
* Leo Baxendale
* Gordon Bell
* Nick Brennan
* Paddy Brennan
* Sid Burgon
* Reg Carter
* Wilbur Dawbarn
* Karl Dixon
* The Etherington Brothers
* Hunt Emerson
* Andy Fanton
* John Geering
* Barry Glennard
* Charles Grigg
* Ken H. Harrison
* Laura Howell
* Diego Jourdan
* Malcolm Judge
* David Law
* Trevor Metcalfe
* Allan Morley
* David Mostyn
* Vic Neill
* Robert Nixon
* Gary Northfield
* Nigel Parkinson
* Tom Paterson
* Jim Petrie
* Ken Reid
* Bill Ritchie
* David Parkins
* Jon Rushby
* Jamie Smart
* Lew Stringer
* David Sutherland
* Kev F. Sutherland
* Dudley D. Watkins
* Stevie White

Notable writers|

* Mike Chinn
* Gilbert Lawford Dalton
* Alan Grant
* Ian Gray
* R. D. Low
* Grant Morrison
* John Radford
* Cavan Scott
* John Smith

See also|

* List of D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd publications
* List of AP, Fleetway and IPC Comics publications
* List of Beano comic strips
* List of Dandy comic strips
* List of Topper comic strips
* List of Beezer comic strips
* List of Beezer and Topper comic strips

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