Cracker

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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)