British Update: March Of The Bimbos ???
*Younger Readers Comics: Bimbo must have been many readers’ first experience of comics. Aimed at nursery school aged children it included many nursery rhyme characters in stories such as Old MacDonald’s Farm, and Little Snow White (very carefully delineated from the Disney version: Little Snow White’s dwarves included Bossy, Nosey, Dozy, Chuckles, Thumpy and Mumpy). Bizarrely, Bimbo didn’t appear on the front cover until issue #3, and was soon replaced by Tom Thumb. Other stories used characters from sister D C Thompson titles such as Baby Crockett (the Beezer), and Patsy the Panda (Twinkle), other notable stories include Pip the Penguin, which ran for the whole life of the comic, Aladdin and his Magic Lamp and Pussy Willow (fondly remembered by Dr Evilla). We have greatly expanded our stock of Bimbo, to include missing years 1961, the year it started, 1962, and 1970. 1963 and 1964 are much better represented than they were.