Beat Your Neighbour (comic strip)
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Beat Your Neighbour was a British comic strip
which appeared in Knockout
in September 1971 and also in Whizzer and Chips
.
The strip centred around two families which lived next door to each other. Although the introductory title picture shows them arguing, the two families often tried to be pleasant to one another but secretly trying to outdo each other. The results were quite often far-fetched but unexpected.
One example was when one family said to the other that they should drink more milk as it is good for them, the other family ordered more milk. The original family ordered even more and eventually they were both ordering milk in churns and eventually the dairy brought the cows to their houses and told them to milk the cows themselves.
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
which appeared in Knockout
Knockout (comic)
-1939 series:The first ran from 4 March 1939 to 16 February 1963, 1251 issues, when it merged with Valiant. Magnet was discontinued in 1940; but its lead character, Billy Bunter, was thereafter granted his own cartoon strip in Knockout. Comic Cuts merged with it in 1953...
in September 1971 and also in Whizzer and Chips
Whizzer and Chips
Whizzer and Chips was a British comic magazine that ran from 18 October 1969 to 27 October 1990, when it merged with the comic Buster. As with most comics of the time, Whizzer and Chips was dated one week ahead....
.
The strip centred around two families which lived next door to each other. Although the introductory title picture shows them arguing, the two families often tried to be pleasant to one another but secretly trying to outdo each other. The results were quite often far-fetched but unexpected.
One example was when one family said to the other that they should drink more milk as it is good for them, the other family ordered more milk. The original family ordered even more and eventually they were both ordering milk in churns and eventually the dairy brought the cows to their houses and told them to milk the cows themselves.