SHERLOCK HOLMES IN BRITISH COMICS

MONSTER FUN




Appearances by Sherlock Holmes and his imitators in British comics.

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


Number 15 (20th September 1975)



Badtime Bedtime Storybook: Sherlock Bones

Artist: Tom Paterson


A ventriloquist's dummy is delieverd to the home of Sherlock Bones, and asks him to find its owner, the Great Chatto. Bones deduces the location of the ventriloquist's captors by throwing bricks over the the rooftops. A trapdoor leads Bones and What's-on to the Great Chatto and a joke-telling dog.

Reprinted in Krazy Annual 1981.







Number 49 (15th May 1976)



Frankie
                    Stein's Pull-Out Book of Monster Gags

Artist: Jim Crocker


A single pane cartoon in which Watson points out a savage gorilla and Holmes heads in the opposite direction.







Number 61 (7th August 1976)



Badtime
                    Bedtime Stories

Artist: Leslie Harding


A second-class postman is tasked with delivering mail to the house where the Hound of the Back-Street-Villa lives.







Monster Fun Annual 1979



Terror TV

Artist: Barrie Appleby


Among the guests on Hughie Groan's Horror-tunity Shocks is Clement Fried, whose bloodhound Henry has just got a new job with the Baskerville family.