Offshore radio stations were officially outlawed in the UK
in the late 60s.
This confirms that the strip is a reprint.
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Dr. What decides to go to the year 1492 - Columbus’ times. After a lot of trouble that he gets from a sword fish and a giant gorilla he spends a short time on board Santa Maria but is thrown overboard for knocking Christopher Columbus out with a mop. He reaches the shore and beats Columbus at the discovery of America. Dr. What becomes the Great Whiter than White Chief of Red Indians who also take him for a weather man. Things get complicated when Dr. What is unable to stop the rain and Red Indians decide to scalp him. Dr. What uses his time clock again to travel to America of the 20th century where he finds himself in the company of entrepreneurial Luke Backwards, chairman of Coyote County’s historical reference library. Here is how the story ends:
The Goodies are behind the Gaswork gang..lol
ReplyDeleteat least Dr What stories are zany and fun..loved seeing him in Jasper the Grasper strip..
You say "Something about reproduction quality and the way the Dr. What stories are structured suggests the strip may be a reprint but if that’s the case, I don’t know where from", but you wrote yourself, on March 23rd: "Dr What (19 pages of his antics) was a reprint from Boy’s World, a short-lived ODHAMS publication from the 60s (1963-1964)" - and you were correct!
ReplyDeleteThe 1972 Summer Special Dr What story was a reprint from a 19 part Boy's World serial from 1964 (which is why Dr What most resembles William Hartnell), stretching out each weekly half page strip's artwork to a full page.
The 1974 Annual story is considered to probably be unpublished Boy's World strips from around the same period.
I completely forgot about the piece of information about Boys World that I found on Google when I was writing the review of the 1972 Summer Special...
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