Allan Morley was a British comic artist. He first worked for DC Thomson in 1925, drawing a number of comic strips for the Sunday Post and for DC Thomson's story papers including The Wizard

The Wizard (DC Thomson)

The Wizard was launched as a weekly British story paper on 22 September 1922, published by It was merged with The Rover in September 1963, becoming Rover and Wizard, and renamed The Rover in August 1969. The Wizard was relaunched on 14 February 1970, and continued until 10 June...

, where he drew Nero and Zero

Nero and Zero

Nero and Zero was a comic strip originally in the boys' story paper The Wizard, published by DC Thomson. This strip started on 1 November 1930 and was originally drawn by Allan Morley. The strip featured the subtitle the "Rollicking Romans" and featured two bumbling Roman guards called Nero and...

. He also drew a number of strips for both The Beano

The Beano

The Beano is a British children's comic, published by D.C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. During the Second World War,The Beano and The Dandy were published on alternating weeks because of paper and ink...

and The Dandy

The Dandy

The Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The first issue was printed in 1937 and it is the world's third longest running comic, after Detective Comics and Il Giornalino...

from the late thirties until the early fifties. He drew Keyhole Kate

Keyhole Kate

Keyhole Kate was a comic strip in The Dandy. The strip featured a nosy young girl who looked looking through people's keyholes. She first appeared in The Dandy's first issue drawn by Allan Morley back in 1937. She continued in The Dandy until 1955 and even appeared as the cover strip of issue 294...

, Hungry Horace and Freddie the Fearless Fly, three long-running strips which first appeared in the first issue of The Dandy. He also drew a number of strips for The Beano, including Big Fat Joe, which appeared in the comic's very first issue. The last time he drew for The Beano was the last strip of The Magic Lollipops

The Magic Lollipops

The Magic Lollipops was a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, featuring a boy with lollipops, that if you licked them, they would turn into what you wanted. It ran from the 1940s to early 1950s, and was drawn by Allan Morley....

 in issue 475 (August 25, 1951). Allan Morley died in Kent on September 5, 1960.

Legacy

Allan Morley was held in such high regard by DC Thomson that they said the comics might close without him. Along with Dudley D. Watkins

Dudley D. Watkins

Dudley Dexter Watkins was a British cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his characters Oor Wullie and The Broons; comic strips featuring them have appeared in Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post since 1936, along with annual compilations...

, Allan Morley was one of the first artists allowed to sign his work, which he did from January 1947. His strips even survived after his death with reprints of Waggy the Shaggy Doggy continuing in the Dandy until the late seventies.

The Beano

• Big Fat Joe
• Cocky Dick He's Smart and Slick
• The Magic Lollipops
  The Magic Lollipops
  The Magic Lollipops was a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, featuring a boy with lollipops, that if you licked them, they would turn into what you wanted. It ran from the 1940s to early 1950s, and was drawn by Allan Morley....
  
  
• Tricky Dicky Ant
• Sammy Shrinko
• Sammy's Super Rubber
• Smarty Smokum and his pipe of peace