SHERLOCK HOLMES IN BRITISH COMICS

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Appearances by Sherlock Holmes and his imitators in British comics.

WARNING: These are summaries, not reviews, and may contain story spoilers.


Number 139 (27th January 1973)



The Goodies

Artist: Joe Colquhoun


When Tim decides to set up a lost and found office, Bill dons a deerstalker and sets off to find lost objects. His retrieval of a lost ladder ends in a chain of disasters, which are all resolved when he solves the case of a missing roll of linoleum.







Number 150 (14th April 1973)



Swopper
                    Stan

Artist: Mike Lacey


Tired of looking at the same old face in the mirror, Swopper Stan decides to swop identities, and dresses up as Sherlock Swopper. He swops his pipe for a lollipop, and sets out to catch some crooks whom he can swop for a reward. An encounter with a ladder puts paid to his plans.







Cor!! Holiday Special 1976



Dial T
                    for Twitt

Sam Twitt and his son Cyril are deerstalker-wearing secret agents. The chief assigns them the task of protecting Professor Klott and his secret shrinking device from enemy agents. The professor departs for a mad scientists convention, and two enemy agents are delivered in a crate. The Twitts pursue the agents, now disguised as a pillar box to recover the device.







Jolidays

A page of one panel cartoons. Sherlock Holmes is looking at a "Mystery Tours" poster at a coach trips booking office.







Cor!! Comic Annual 1977



The Return
                    of Spooky Spokes


In 1875, detective Spooky Spokes and his arch-enemy Ponsonby Prendergast are blown up by one of Prendergast's fiendish devices. They return as ghosts, and in 1977 decide to help private detective Arnold Twinge solve a gold robbery. Twinge is captured by the robbers, but with their ghostly powers and the contents of a baker's van, Spokes and Prendergast capture the gang and free him.







Cor!! Comic Annual 1982



A Quick
                    and Easy Puzzle Page


A puzzle page with a question about Sherlock Holmes's assistant.







General Knowledge Quiz

A quiz page with a question about Sherlock Holmes's address.