Cracker

Cracker was a weekly comic published from 1975 to '76 by DC Thomson. Comic historian Graham Kibble-White has described it as having "carved out a niche for itself by being ever-so-slightly wackier than its rivals". It lasted eighty-seven issues before merging into The Beezer, and was hosted by a character named Sammy.

Features included...


 * "The Astro-Nuts" (Alan Rogers)
 * "Big-Head Branny" (first appeared in issue 1)
 * "Billy the Kid and Pongo" (first appeared in issue 1, Gordon Bell)
 * "Curly's Commandos"
 * "Dunder Ed" (Phil Millar)
 * "Fiends Beans" (Gordon Bell)
 * "Hector the Collector" (John Aldrich)
 * "Iron Hand" (Paddy Brennan)
 * "Jimmy Jest" (issues 38-87)
 * "Joe Soap" (John Dallas)
 * "Little 'Orror"
 * "Mad Ads" (first appeared in issue 1)
 * "The Nutters" (first appeared in issue 1, John Geering)
 * "Rip Van Tinkle"
 * "Scrapper" (first appeared in issue 1)
 * "Simple Spyman" (first appeared in issue 1, Bill Ritchie)
 * "Skooldaze" (first appeared in issue 1)
 * "Slojak"
 * "Spookie Cookie" (first appeared in issue 1)
 * "Spookum School" (Ken Harrison)
 * "Wonder Wellies" (Andrew Christine)
 * "Young Foo: The Kung Fu Kid" (first appeared in issue 1, Brian Platt)