Odd Ball (comic strip)

Odd Ball is a long-running British comic strip in the British comic magazine Whizzer and Chips'^[1]and survived its merger with Buster. It debuted in 1969^[2] and ended when Buster sold its final issue on 4 January 2000. Latterly appearing in reprints, it was drawn throughout its run by . His subtitle was "Nobby Noodle owns Odd Ball, the amazing toy from space".

Odd Ball follows the adventures of the titular red rubber ball which accidentally found itself kicked from a distant planet onto earth. Its finder, Nobby, remained its owner. Odd Ball could see and speak, and was able to turn himself into any shape at will.^[3] In later years, Nobby's dad lost his moustache and beard, and gained a full head of hair – his head was also redrawn at the time. Odd Ball also gained a Time Travel shape in the late 1980s, where previously he had been strictly restricted to rubber versions of day to day objects.

From 3 November 1990 until 4 January 2000, the series ran in Buster.^[3] In the final episode, Odd Ball gets punctured on a thorn and dies.

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