Shiner (comics)
Shiner was a British humoristic comic strip drawn by . It was published in the magazine Whizzer and Chips, where the character first appeared in the second issue in 1969. Whizzer and Chips characters were divided into "Whizz-kids" and "Chip-ites", reflecting respectively the two sections of the comic; Shiner was the leader of the "Chip-ites". He was an amateur boxer, constantly getting into trouble with his mother, who disapproved of his activity. He usually ended up getting a black eye in each issue, hence his name (in 20th-century British English, shiner has a colloquial meaning of "black eye").
Unlike most of the Whizzer and Chips characters, Shiner was not transferred into Buster and thus was terminated in 1990.
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