Master Mind was a comic strip

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 British comic magazine 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...

. It made its first appearance in the issue dated 8 November 1980, and ran until 1983 when it was replaced with Cliff Hanger

Cliff Hanger (comic strip)

Cliff Hanger is the name of two different 1983 comic strips, one published in the United Kingdom and the other in the United States.The British Cliff Hanger was written and drawn by Jack Edward Oliver...

. It was written and drawn by Jack Edward Oliver

Jack Edward Oliver

Jack Edward Oliver was a British cartoonist. He is more usually known as J Edward Oliver or JEO and to his friends he was Jack....

.

Alf Witt was a boy who lived in the town of Flittem, and wasn't very clever. After falling into a hole, he met a wizard called Madness Madnesson (a reference to Magnus Magnusson

Magnus Magnusson

Magnus Magnusson KBE was a television presenter, journalist, translator and writer. He was born in Iceland but lived in Scotland for almost all of his life, although he never took British citizenship...

, who hosted the television show Mastermind

Mastermind (TV series)

Mastermind is a British quiz show, well known for its challenging questions, intimidating setting and air of seriousness.Devised by Bill Wright, the basic format of Mastermind has never changed — four and in later contests five contestants face two rounds, one on a specialised subject of the...

at this time) who gave him super powers. By getting into a telephone booth

Telephone booth

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 and saying the mystic word "Pass", Alf Witt would transform into a superhero

Superhero

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 called Master Mind.

In the strip he would come across a supervillain

Supervillain

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 and ask the readers for help on how to defeat him, this would usually involve puzzles such as anagram

Anagram

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place, Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort. Someone who...

s, join the dots

Connect the dots

Connect the dots, also known as dot to dot or join the dots is a form of puzzle containing a sequence of numbered dots. When a line is drawn connecting the dots the outline of an object is revealed. The puzzles often contain simple line art to enhance the image created or to assist in rendering a...

, and many others. Master Mind also had a dog that would accompany him, called Bones.