Hairy Dan

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Hairy Dan
DC Thomson comic strip character(s)
Publication information
Stars inHairy Dan
Creator(s)Basil Blackaller
Other contributors
  • Bill Richie
  • Bill McLoughlin
First appearance
The BeanoIssue 1 (30 July 1938)
The Beezer1972
Sparky1965
Last appearance
The BeanoIssue 297 (16 November 1946)
The Beezer1981

Hairy Dan was a British comic strip character by Basil Blackaller originally published in the magazine The Beano Comic in the comic strip of the same name. It first appeared in issue 1 on 30 July 1938 and ran until issue 297.[1][2]

Story summary[]

Hairy Dan is an old man with a floor-length beard. His stories were about how this beard would save the day. Notable examples include issue 1 when Dan used his beard as a sail to win a boat race,[1] and the first Beano Book when he pretended it was a horse's tail for a "horse tail contest".[3]

To celebrate The Beano's 65th anniversary, Dan cameoed in a Ball Boy strip.[4]

Subsequent appearances[]

The character later appeared for a short time in Sparky in 1965. From 1972 until 1981, the stories also appeared in The Beezer, where it was drawn by Bill Ritchie, and written by Bill McLoughlin.[5]

In popular culture[]

A similar strip appeared in the first Dandy Monster Comic entitled Old Beaver's Brainwaves and also featured a man with a large white beard and using it to save the day.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Moonie, George, ed. (30 July 1938). "Hairy Dan". The Beano Comic. No. 1. Illustrated by Bill Blackaller. D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. (published 26 July 1938).
  2. ^ "Hairy Dan". The Beano Comic. No. 297. Illustrated by Bill Blackaller. D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. (published 14 November 1946). 16 November 1946.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ Moonie, George, ed. (1940). "Hairy Dan". Beano Book. D.C. Thompson & Co. Ltd.
  4. ^ Kerr, Euan, ed. (2 August 2003). "Ball Boy". The Beano. No. 3185. DC Thomson (published 31 July 2003). ISBN 9770262246133(31)
  5. ^ "Adventures in Pictures: From Sparky to Starblazer and Beyond". Down the Tubes. 27 June 2008. Archived from the original on 8 September 2021. Bill [McLoughlin]: I did “The Numskulls” on a regular basis and enjoyed that. “Little Mo” and “Hairy Dan” were others I wrote as well.
  6. ^ Dandy Monster Comic No. 1. Dundee, Scotland: D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. in conjunction with Aurum Press Ltd. 2006. pp. 40, 84. ISBN 1-84513-217-3.


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