Hoot (comic book)
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- See HootHootHoot generally refers to the call of an owl. It could also refer to:* Hoot * Hoot * Hoot , a novel by Carl Hiaasen** Hoot , a 2006 film based on the novel* The Hoot, a student newspaper at Brandeis University...
for other meanings of the word.
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Hoot was a British
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comic that ran from (issues dates) 26 October 1985 to 25 October 1986, when it merged with 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...
. Its cover price was 20p, represented by a stylized graphic depiction of a 20p coin. Throughout its run, it billed itself as "Britain's bubbling new comic!", a reference to the title masthead being made up of steam-billowing pipes (hence the title). Strips throughout its 53 issue run included:
- Big Uggy (reprint from The TopperTopper (comic book)The Topper was a UK comic published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd that ran from 7 February 1953 to 15 September 1990, when it merged with The Beezer....
) - CuddlesCuddles and DimplesCuddles and Dimples are fictional characters in the UK comic The Dandy. The stories are based around two toddler brothers who like to cause double the trouble whether they go, much to the dismay of their parents, who in the earlier strips, were referred to as Daddums and Mumsie...
(the cover star) - The Hoot Squad ( reprinted as The Riot Squad in The Beano in 2007)
- L Plated Ella
- Piggles
- Polar Blair
- Sam's Secret Diary
- Snackula
- Spotted Dick
- Super Fran
- Tarzan Stripes
- Wanta Job Bob
The comic also featured short, three-frame strips featuring pre-existng DC Thomson characters, but, as noted in Graham Kibble-White's Ultimate Book of British Comics, few of these strips seemed to have been drawn by their "proper" artists, hence a rather odd-looking Lord Snooty
Lord Snooty
Lord Snooty was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, first appearing in issue 1, dated 30 July 1938, and was the longest running strip in the comic until Dennis the Menace and Gnasher overtook it...
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Polar Blair and Spotted Dick later continued in The Dandy, with Cuddles joining another Dandy strip (Dimples) and becoming Cuddles and Dimples
Cuddles and Dimples
Cuddles and Dimples are fictional characters in the UK comic The Dandy. The stories are based around two toddler brothers who like to cause double the trouble whether they go, much to the dismay of their parents, who in the earlier strips, were referred to as Daddums and Mumsie...
. Revised reprints of Piggles appeared for about half a year in 2004.