Buster

Buster was a long-running British comic (28 May 1960 - 4 January 2000) which carried a mixture of humour and adventure strips, although the latter genre would become a rarer occurrence as the comic went on. The title character, whose strip appeared on the front cover, was Buster Capp, who was originally billed as Buster: Son of Andy Capp and wore a similar flat cap to reinforce the connection. Buster often referred to his father who was seen in the comic attempting to find a gas leak in three frames of the 18 June 1960 issue. He was also shown in two drawn photographs in the 2 July 1960 issue, the first of which was displayed by Buster's mum with the pronouncement "It's a photo of Buster taken with Andy! You can see he's got his dad's fine straight nose". Buster's mum was often referred to by name and was consistently drawn to resemble Andy's wife Flo.

In its later years, the comic mostly consisted of reprints from either Buster itself or one of the many comics that merged with it over the comic's 40-year run, thirteen in total.

Throughout all the issues, it was never revealed what Buster had under his cap, until the final issue, when he took it off to reveal the same hairstyle that Dennis the Menace has. The same issue also revealed how every story in the comic would end^[1], often in the opposite way to the usual strip formula. This strip was written by the last cartoonist for Buster, J Edward Oliver.

A Swedish edition of Buster was started in 1967. At first most of the material was taken from the UK edition but as time went on the magazine produced more and more original material. See Buster (sport comic) for more information.

Return

In March 2009 Egmont UK announced they were bringing back 4 comics as one-off specials: Roy of the Rovers, Battle, Buster and Misty. To celebrate this bustercomic.co.uk held a poll for users to vote for their favourite Buster strip.

The results were released in May 2009 with X Ray Specs coming first. These were passed onto Egmont as they compiled the special due for release on 16 September 2009. Misty and Buster then had their release dates swapped, and the Buster special was released on 9 December 2009.

Absorbed titles

As occurred with other British comics such as The Dandy, many other comics merged with Buster over the years and some of their characters appeared in the comic.

• Radio Fun (25/2/1961)
• Film Fun (15/9/1962)
• The Big One (27/2/1965)
• Giggle (20/1/1968)
• Jet (2/10/1971)
• Cor!! (22/6/1974)
• Monster Fun (6/11/1976)
• "Jackpot" (30/1/1982)
• Oink! (22/10/1988)
• Whizzer and Chips (7/10/1990)

List of strips

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• Adam Adman
• All Creatures Grunt and Smell
• All Humans Tall And Small
• Andy and Sandy (1961 - 1962)
• Andy'n'Fred (1966 - 1968)
• Athletes of Lost Island (1963)
• Back-Tracker Jack (1965 - 1966)
• Bam, Splat and Blooie (1960)
• Barney Bluffer
• Barry & Boing
• Beastenders
• Benny Hill (1966 - 1968)
• Ben the Bad
• Bertie Bumpkin
• Bewitched Belinda
• Big Chief Pow Wow
• Big Daddy
• Big 'Ead (1960 - 1961)
• Big One, The (1965)
• Billy Blow
• Blarney Bluffer
• Black Axe the Saxon Avenger (1960 - 1965)
• Bluebottle And Basher
• Bob-A-Job
• Bobby's Ghoul (from Whizzer and Chips)
• Bob Morane and the Towers of Crystal (1965 - 1966)
• Bonehead
• Boris and Shimmy in Dinkle Land (1960)
• Brainsly
• Boy Who Knew Too Much, The (1963)
• Brenda
• Brayne Drayne (1965)
• Brett Shane frontier scout (1964 - 1965)
• Brian's Bike
• Bright Hunter
• Bruce Forsyth (from Radio Fun, 1962 - 1963)
• Bruise Brothers
• Bumpkin Billionaires, The (from Whizzer and Chips)
• Buck Rogers (1961-1962)
• Bully Buzzard, The (1974)
• Bungle Brothers, The (1965)
• Buster himself
• Buster's Bedtime Tale (1965)
• Buster's Diary (1960 - 1968, 1974 - 1985)
• Buster's Dream Time
• Buster's Dream-World (1968 - 1974)
• Buster's Good Deeds (1961)
• Busters of Bygone Days (1960 - 1961)
• Buster son of Andy Capp (1960 - 1961)
• Byrds of Paradise Isle
• Calamity Kate (1966 - 1968)
• Captain Crucial
• Chalky (from Cor!!)
• Champion the Wonder Horse
• Charlie Drake (from Radio Fun)
• Charlie Peace, The Astounding Adventures of
• Class Wars (from School Fun)
• Cliff Hanger
• Consternation Street
• Deadly Hedley
• Dekker
• Delbert the Dynamite Dude
• Dinah Mite
• Disappearing Trix
• Double Trouble (from Nipper)
• Dozy Derek
• Dracula Dobbs
• Drifter Long
• The Drowned World
• Elmer
• Faceache (from Jet)
• Faulty Towers - The Oldest School In The Land
• Fishboy
• Fuss Pot (from Knockout)
• Fishboy
• Freddie "Parrot-Face" Davies
• Fright School (1985-1987)
• Frozen Summer
• Galaxus - The Thing From Outer Space
• George's Germs""
• Good Guy
• Gums
• Ivor Lott and Tony Broke (from Cor!!)
• Ivor Lott and Tony Broke with Milly O'Naire and Penny Less (Milly and Penny from Jackpot)
• Jackpot (from Jackpot)
• James Pond (Agent 008½)
• Jelly
• Joker (from Whizzer and Chips)
• Junior Rotter (from Whizzer and Chips)
• Kid King (from Jackpot)
• Kid Kong (from Monster Fun)
• The Kids of Stalag 41 (from Jet)
• Laser Eraser
• Lazy Bones (from Whizzer and Chips)
• Leopard from Lime Street, The
• Lucy 'Lastic
• Mag Max
• March Of The Mighty Ones
• Marney The Fox
• Master Mind
• Masters of the Loonyverse
• Maxwell Hawke
• Melvyn's Mirror
• Mervyn's Monsters
• Memory Banks (from Whizzer and Chips)
• Mickey Marvel's Multigun
• Micro Chip
• Mike's Bike
• Moss
• Mr Crabbe
• Mummy's Boy (from Monster Fun)
• Nellyphant
• Nightmare on Erm Street
• Nits Of The Round Table
• Odd Ball (from Whizzer and Chips)
• Old Nick
• Park, The
• Pete's Pimple (from Oink!)
• Pete's Pocket Army
• Pete's Pop-Up Book
• The Pirates
• Plunk
• Ricky Rainbow (from Nipper)
• Roboplod
• Rodney and Dez
• Sammy Brewsters Ski Board Squad
• School Belle (from School Fun)
• School Team (from School Fun)
• Scrapham Junction
• Shrinker, The
• Sid's Snake (from Whizzer and Chips)
• Skid Kidd (from Buster)
• Slow Coach (from School Fun)
• Smiler
• Smiler and Dimps
• Snooper
• S.O.S. Squad
• Sporty
• Star Wreck
• Store Wars (from Whizzer and Chips)
• Strawbelly
• Stupid Street
• Superman (from Radio Fun)
• Sweeny Toddler (from Whizzer and Chips)
• Sweet Tooth (from Whizzer and Chips)
• Tich
• Tomboy (from Cor!!)
• Tom Thug (from Oink!)
• Top of the Class (from School Fun)
• Toys Of Doom
• Twister, Trail of the
• Val's Vanishing Cream (from Cor!!)
• Vampire Brats
• Vid Kid
• Von Hoffman's Invasion (from Jet)
• Walt Teaser (from School Fun)
• Watch Out Beagle's About
• Watford Gapp (from Whizzer and Chips)
• Winners, The (from Jackpot)
• Wizard of Football, The
• Wonder Wellies Buster - 17th Sept. 1983 to August 1985
• World Wide Wheelers
• X-Ray Specs (from Monster Fun)
• Young Arfur (from School Fun)
• Zarga - Man of Mystery

References

External links

• The Buster Fansite