Inspector Horse and Jocky
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Inspector Horse and Jocky was a comic strip
in the UK
comic
The Beano
, drawn by Terry Bave. The main character was a horse
who was also a plain clothes police inspector. His name was an obvious pun on Inspector Morse
. Jocky was the name of his human sidekick, a boy jockey
who would ride on Inspector Horse's back and help him out. As a 'Guest Star' in the comic, the strip first appeared in issue 2971, dated 26 June 1999, and ran until early 2000 alongside fellow Guest Stars Gordon Bennett
, The Three Bears
and Tricky Dicky
. All four were in the running to be voted into The Beano by readers. In the end, however, The Three Bears won.
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....
in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
comic
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
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...
, drawn by Terry Bave. The main character was a horse
Horse
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
who was also a plain clothes police inspector. His name was an obvious pun on Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse is a fictional character in the eponymous series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, as well as the 33-episode 1987–2000 television adaptation of the same name, in which the character was portrayed by John Thaw. Morse is a senior CID officer with the Thames Valley...
. Jocky was the name of his human sidekick, a boy jockey
Jockey
A jockey is an athlete who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing.-Etymology:...
who would ride on Inspector Horse's back and help him out. As a 'Guest Star' in the comic, the strip first appeared in issue 2971, dated 26 June 1999, and ran until early 2000 alongside fellow Guest Stars Gordon Bennett
Gordon Bennett (character)
Gordon Bennett is a comic book character, who appeared in The Beano , and is named after the exclamation The character originally appeared between 1999 and 2000, originally drawn by Jimmy Hansen who had previously drawn First Class...
, The Three Bears
The Three Bears
"The Story of the Three Bears" is a fairy tale first recorded in narrative form by British author and poet Robert Southey, and first published anonymously in a volume of his writings in 1837...
and Tricky Dicky
Tricky Dicky (comics)
Tricky Dicky was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Topper. Drawn by John Dallas, Dicky used to play practical jokes on people, but they usually managed to get the last laugh...
. All four were in the running to be voted into The Beano by readers. In the end, however, The Three Bears won.