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Issue: The Dandy Book #1953
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Publisher: FlagD.C. Thomson
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Content Items: 61 (56 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: Colour
Dimensions: 7.5 " x 11"
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Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: Annual
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Korky; Mice
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This book belongs to.
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Freddie the Fearless Fly writing "This Book Belongs To" into a notebook held by Korky while a spider walks away covered in ink. Traditionally the book's owner would write their name in the space provided.
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The Dandy Book

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Picture of Korky holding a can of Hoppit anti mice powder while facing a Shocker Jock who has Buzzoff spray for getting rid of cats being put into his spray gun reservoir by the mice.
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Plum MacDuff
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Plum MacDuff lifting lid off a wicker basket on the side of which are printed the book's contents.
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Korky the cat
Goal! Good old Korky!
Korky is playing soccer but is injured and stretchers off. At half time he pours glue onto his head and then returns to play. He heads the ball and it sticks to his head and he runs into the goal with it.
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No captions or word balloons but football crowd shout Goal! Good old Korky! in one panel and the word Cheers! appears above the crowd in the next picture.
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Sooty and His Shooter
The best of all flowers that grow in this town are a-bloom in the garden of old Mother Brown.
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Can't look after yourself because of your rheumatics, uncle Eb?
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Barney's Bear was enjoying himself.
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Artist named draws the strip in the weekly comic but equivalent stories in annuals sometimes drawn by another artist.
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Here's a corker!
Keyhole Kate is looking through a keyhole, she is approached by a man with a microphone who asks her to speak on the radio but she runs off. Later the same man shows up but this time his microphone is in the shape of a keyhole and Kate is happy to speak into it.
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Desperate Dan; Swimming baths manager; Pilot
I've got no customers. How about giving an exhibition, Dan?
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Black Bob's Ding-Dong Rescue

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There were no cinemas or theatres in the quiet little valley near Selkirk where Black Bob lived with his master, Andrew Glenn.
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Hungry Horace solves a puzzle - so now he can guzzle!

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Carry your bag, sir?
Horace carries a man's bag for him which is very heavy. Horace is unhappy when the man only gives him a halfpenny dated 1860. Later Horace sees a cake in a shop window with a sign inviting people to guess how many currants are in it. Horace guesses 1,860 and is correct and wins the cake.
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Korky's pet can imitate - but he imit-ate too much!

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You can have him for five bob, Korky. He's a great imitator.
Korky buys a monkey that copies everything he does. But when it starts copying Korky eating and won't stop. A month later Korky gags the monkey and gives him back to the seller.
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The plumber is tough - but dumber than MacDuff.

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Plum MacDuff the Highlandman who never gets enough.
Hey, do you want a job? I need a helper.
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The tale of the two-ton pirate beater.

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Cocky Sue the Cockatoo
It's buccaneer Boris after the elephant we rescued from him -
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Freddy's bit of tragic magic.

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What a lovely lump of meat - but I wish that man wasn't there!
Freddy want to eat a joint of meat but the owner is sitting beside it. Outside a passing magician drops his magic wand. Freddy picks up the wand and taps the meat owner on the head making him disappear. Going to the meat joint Freddy accidentally taps it with the wand and it disappears too.
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Ma's choir is dire - The teacher's a screecher!

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Old Ma Murphy - the Strong-arm School - Ma'rm
In Old Ma's school it is the rule that boys must sing in choir.
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All birds have wings - But all cuckoo's don't fly!

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Rusty
Where are you off to, Ginger?
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Donkey-doogle-quadrupot - Wuzzy's an ass, but the boy is not.

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Wuzzy Wizz Magic is his biz.
You'll have to swot harder if you want your apprentice's certificates by next week - can you recite your magic spells?
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The boy who's magic in the jungles. Is full of tricks - and full of bungles!

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Black Magic Bongo
Morning sunshine was streaming down on the Congo village when Bongo, the witch doctor's son, trotted out of his hut.
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Wily Smiley the Jungle Joker
Wily is sitting on a swing hanging from a tree branch. A goat butts him hard from behind. Wily, on the swing, goes right over the branch and back down the over side (in an arc) and his feet kick the goat from behind.
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Freddy Fly tries - and Freddy Fly flies!

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Coo! What a lovely dish of cakes! I must sample them.
Freddy wants some cakes but he owner locks them in the larder. Freddy flies through the larder keyhole but finds Septimus Spider guarding the cakes. In the last panel Freddy is seen five miles away saying "Phew! In future I'll leave keyholes to Keyhole Kate!"
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See how Noah travelled when his plot unravelled!

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Noah Lott He Knows a Lot of Rot!
Bah! There goes another car that won't give us a lift!
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Who dares shift that royal paw. To pull a tooth from the royal jaw?

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Daring Doyle and the Royal Gumboil
King Mog of Lavorna had the toothache.
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Wily Smiley the Jungle Joker
An elephant squirts water at Wily through a knothole in a fence. Wily puts a piece of bamboo in the knothole and bends it back so the other end is in a higher knothole. When the elephant squirts more water it comes back through the higher knothole and soaks him.
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Dan is nearly as black as jet - But he isn't the sun-tan champion yet.

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Say, I'll have to enter for this. I should win easy.
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A quick sail for a sick whale.

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Cocky Sue the Cockatoo
There's Wally the whale over there - but he's not moving, I'll just fly over and see if he's all right.
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Korky's in a hurly-burly with people who are all called "Curly."

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Are we getting to the party, Korky?
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Good-bye to Ma's hopes - ALL her pupils are dopes!

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Old Ma Murphy the Strong-arm School-ma'rm
Take this chalk, Donald Dope, and write the answer down.
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Why did the jam roll? - Because Horace's iced cake went for a stroll.

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Bah! Dad's gone out and he's locked the pantry door.
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Poor Charlie feels he's in a fog - The cake he baked was for a dog!

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Charlie Chutney the comical cook
There - that special order for a birthday cake with four candles is ready for the customer when he calls.
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Smoke billows up 'tween the chief and Wuzzy - Till the chief sees only a fuzzy Wuzzy.

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Woe is me! I can't work the annual magic test and the chief wizard is coming soon to see me do it -
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The lad who's glad to make things hum - With tricks and shocks that will strike you dumb!

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Shocker Jock the boy from the wonder world.
I think that's fixed it, said Shocker Jock, the boy from the Wonder World of the Future, as he straightened up and out away his tools.
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Three cooks with one hat wouldn't look well - But one with three hats is just swell!

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Charlie Chutney the comical cook
Coo! I'm late this morning!
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Look at Sneezer, he feels faint - He gets a cure for what he ain't!

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Julius Sneezer the sneezing Caeser.
Atishoo! Atishoo! Atishoo! Atishoo!
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With gum the pirates their ship defend - But then they come to a sticky end!

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Cocky Sue the Cockatoo
Put out to sea quicky, Skipper!
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For spying and prying and clever fun - Katie takes the currant bun.

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Coo! He's left his key in the keyhole.
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Into the pot the rabbit flew - But it's Plum MacDuff who's in the stew!

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Plum MacDuff the Highlandman who never gets enough.
This cave makes a great new hide-out.
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Stand clear! Make way! Beware! Ahoy! - Here comes the desperate telegram boy!

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I'll have to mind my B's and P's on this job.
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Handy Dandy Magic
Here's real magic for you!
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Two pages showing readers how to make shadow figures with their hands. Most are characters from the annual.
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Dad is laid low, laid out and laid up - And he takes it lying down!

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Rusty
What's the idea, Rusty?
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Oh, my head! says Fred, with feeling - He thought he was okay on ceiling!

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Coo! What a lovely plate of grub - and nobody here to stop me!
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Who put the "head" in hedge? The answer is Korky!

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The widow Malone's hat shop is burnt down. Poor woman.
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The mighty-muscled Sheriff with the mightiest mount in the west.

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Jumbo Jake
Crack! Crack! Crack! The silence of the Texas prairie was shattered by a sudden outbreak of shooting and the crash of breaking glass.
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A hound shows how well he can - Take Sooty and a Lord for a ride.

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Sooty and His Shooter
Lord John looks a cissy, in silk and in lace. That's why Sooty jeers, there's a scowl on his face.
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A queer kind of pet is Willie's Pobble - Poor Willie can't keep him out of trobble!

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It was Willie Willikin's idea to go camping, and his pals agreed it was a fine idea until it came to shouldering all the gear they would need.
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Here's where Wuzzy has a lean - On a tree that can't be seen!

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Wuzzy Wizz magic is his biz.
What are you groping around like that for?
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Here's where Wuzzy has a lean - On a tree that can't be seen!

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Wuzzy Wizz magic is his biz.
What are you groping around like that for?
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Open the door, Richard, shouts Old Ma - But all she hears is a faint "Ha-ha!"

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Old Ma Murphy - the Strong-arm School - Ma'rm
Huh! Bringing sweets to eat in school, are you?
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A cure at last! And Sneezer agrees - But he doesn't feel happy, he wants to sneeze!

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Julius Sneezer the sneezing Caeser.
Try this!
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Beneath Kate's very eyes and nose - Are keyholes everywhere she goes.

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Next time you see a keyhole, turn your head and look the other way then you won't be tempted to keep.
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How Korky hatched a plot to dig his plot.

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Get your plot dug up - it's a disgrace!
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Grand buns they are, but not for eating - The customer wants them just for heating!

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Charlie Chutney the comical cook
This should make trade buck up!
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Lummy, isn't Horace rummy? - Like a mummy with a tummy!

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Bother! I've lost the pantry door key.
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A bull in tent is better than - A bull intent on goring Dan!

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Here's a little pie to eat while you're out camping, Dan.
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The honour of King Richard the Lionheart is in this boys hands - And in this bird's beak!

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Wild Wulf the boy keeper of the King's beasts.
A boy, clad in a uniform of dark green, sat beside a small fire calmly eating his supper.
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Six page text story with four illustrations.
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The Nicker

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The lonely cottage where Black Bob lived with his master, Andrew Glenn, wasn't a quiet place at all nowadays.
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Drake's Drummer Boy
It was a hot morning in the Gulf of Darien, the northern part of the Spanish Main, and a thick mist drifted in patches over the blue water.
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Six page text story with four illustrations.
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Big thrills with a tough who treats cowboys rough - But he's glad to give in to Bill's cowboy of tin.

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Bonanza Bill the tricky trader of Hilly-Billy city.
Yippee! Ride him, cowboy! yelled young Archie, as his Paw, Bonanza Bill Brannigan, swung to and fro.
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Korky Cat should never, never have taken this toddler up the river.

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Look after my little boy for an hour, Korky. He'll be no trouble.
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