Lord Snooty is as old as the comic in which he resided. So if The Beano started life in 1938, and he was roughly ten years of age, I'd say Snooty must be well into his eighties by now. Same goes for coat hanger head. I think his name was Thomas and, so the story goes, he had his own spin off series in the forties.
* The gang seemed to comprise a fat lad (there was always a fat lad in a gang), a pair of pyjama clad twins, a posh girl, a girl of colour and a Jack the Lad character who always had his sleeves rolled up. And, of course, our top hatted hero. As an avid reader I remember they all used to say 'Grrr!' quite a lot.
'There was always a fat lad in a gang' So true! Just rewatching early (ie good) Grange Hill and Alan Humphries fits that bill too, towering over Tucker and Benny. It was the kind of trio you always saw stalking the playground of your own school
ReplyDeleteDoughnut from Double Deckers was a big old unit.
DeleteI never noticed this coat hanger kid when I read of Lord Snooty and his adventures. Shame on me. Yes, every gang did have a fat kid but fat kids stood out more in those days; now they are ten a penny. No offence meant, just an observation. Hungry Horace wasn't' t all that, though, was he? Odd that.
ReplyDeleteLord Snooty, like a lot of D C Thomson's creations, came from a pre-war era and was then dragged kicking and screaming into the sixties and seventies. If he was around now, and some could argue that David Cameron ticks all the boxes, he would have abandoned all his mates a long time ago, sold his country pile to the developers and buggered off to Jersey.
DeleteJack the Lad looks like he may have been an English cousin of Oor Wullie's pal Soapy Souter.
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