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Jet first appeared dated 1st May 1971 and lasted for 22
issues until it was merged with Buster 25th September 1971. Jet introduced us to
many characters including "Bonehead" the Barmy Bulldog who lived in a pet shop.
Bonehead was often bought but the owners always returned him because of his
voracious appetite. Bonehead continued his adventures, which include a job as a
guard dog at the circus, in Buster. (Reg Parlett)
Jet Number one introduced the boy with one hundred faces, Ricky Rubberneck who
was better known as "Faceache". Faceache could by the way of "scrunge-ing
himself " turn himself into anything and in Jet no.1 used his unusual ability to
help him scrump for apples although, this left him with tummy ache as well as
faceache (Ken
Reid).
The humorous theme continued with "The Kids of Stalag 41" which was a story
about a prisoner of war camp whose inhabitants were British schoolchildren, the
sons of Britons who had been living in France when it was overrun. The boys,
Nipper Long, Winston, Dinger Bell, Muscles Miller and Judge Perkins spent their
time planning tricks against the camp commandant Colonel Klaus Von Schtink.
(Tony Goffe)
The war theme continued with "Seargeants Four" which was the story of Seargeants
Alf Higgs, Taffy Jones, Jock McGill and Paddy O'Boyle who were from England,
Wales, Scotland and Ireland respectively. The four seargeants returned to Dunkirk
to recapture the British Bulldog Banner which was the army's most treasured war
souvenir which had been at Waterloo, the Crimea and South Africa. Due to their
success and their uniquely British makeup, they became an independent commando
force created to tackle special top danger missions. (Fred Holmes)
Germany, April 1945 and the crazy inventor Doktor Von Hoffman
plans to destroy Britain with "the mightiest weapon ever devised by man". Von
Hoffman invented an armoured rocket firing flame-throwing centipede. The RAF
destroyed the centipede so Von Hoffman invented a Giant eel. (Eric Bradbury)
Other popular stories from Jet were "The Sludgemouth Sloggers", "Partridge's
Patch", "Paddy McGinty's Goat", "Crazy Car Capers", "Adare's Anglicans", "Kester
Kidd", "Bertie Bumpkin" and "Bala the Briton."
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