Fishboy
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Comic strip
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appearing in the British
United Kingdom
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comic book
Comic book
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Buster
Buster (comic)
Buster was a long-running British comic which carried a mixture of humour and adventure strips, although the former increasingly replaced the latter...
between 1968 and 1975, written by Scott Goodall
Scott Goodall
-Career:Goodall created and wrote the character Fishboy and lesser-known characters such as Splash Gorton...
and drawn by John Stokes
John Stokes (artist)
John Stokes is a British comics artist who has largely worked for IPC and Marvel UK and is best known for his work on Fishboy.-Biography:Stokes got into the comics industry thanks to his brother George Stokes who already worked for IPC...
and others. As with most UK comic books, neither the writer nor artists were credited.
The title character
Fictional character
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is a British boy who was abandoned on a desert island
Desert island
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as a baby and survived as a feral child by learning to breathe underwater and talk to shark
Shark
Sharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago....
and other sea creatures. He also developed webbed fingers and toes which gave him the ability to swim as fast as a car
Čar
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.
The strip follows his adventures as a teenager
Adolescence
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as he travels the world's sea
Sea
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s searching for his long-lost parents and helping people in trouble.
Goodall also wrote Kid Chameleon
Kid Chameleon (comic strip)
Kid Chameleon was a weekly 2-page colour comic strip appearing in the British Comic Book Cor!! from its first issue in 1970 until 1972. It was written by Scott Goodall and drawn by Joe Colquhoun, both uncredited.-Story:...
for Cor!!
Cor!!
Cor!!, a British comic book Was launched in June 1970 by IPC , their sixth new comic in just over a year. Cor!! was edited by Bob Paynter....
, another comic strip featuring a feral boy on a similar quest.
Fishboy appears in the 2005 comic Albion
Albion (comics)
Albion is a six-issue comic book limited series plotted by Alan Moore, written by his daughter Leah Moore and her husband John Reppion, with covers by Dave Gibbons and art by Shane Oakley and George Freeman. As a result of a deal forged by Vice President Bob Wayne of DC Comics and Publishing...
, as one of a number of comic book characters who have been imprisoned by the British government. He was captured off the coast of Japan
Japan
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. He has seemingly grown more fishlike since his last appearance.