Cracker (comic)
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Cracker was a British comic printed by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd that ran from the issues dated 18 January 1975 to 11 September 1976, when it merged with The Beezer. Its strips included:

• Big-Head Branny - The Strong-Arm Janny - a surly and vindictive janitor
• Billy The Kid - a strip borrowing heavily from Dennis the Menace, featuring a tearaway with black bushy hair and a mischievous spotted dog called Pongo
• Castaways On Planet Doom
• Curly's Commandos - a small gang of children organised along army lines
• Dunder Ed - who was clumsy
• Hector The Collector
• Iron Hand - a secret agent with a metal hand, moved to Beezer.
• Jimmy Jest
• Joe Soap
• Little 'Orror
• Scrapper
• Simple Spyman - a spy with a very long beard, dark glasses, and dark-brimmed hat
• The Snookums - a misbehaved class whose strip consisted of large 'action' panels containing with numerous gags
• Spookie Cookie - a ghost cook in a haunted manor
• Spookum School - yet another strip derivative of The Bash Street Kids, but set in a haunted castle where the children are ghosts
• The Head-Hunter's Of Skookum Skool
• The Nutters
• Young Foo - The Kung Fu Kid - a Chinese schoolboy martial artist, complete with bare feet as part of his school uniform. Each week he would feud with Bully Basher

They had a Mad Ads competition on the back page. Readers would send in an ad for a mad contraption and if it was printed, they would get 1 pound.

Some material from Cracker appears in Classics from the Comics.

See also

• List of DC Thomson Publications