It was a comic strip about an 11 your old kid who always wore a metal bracelet that controlled these model toy soldiers/planes/boats. The bracelet was made by an uncle or his grandad. I read a strip in some old annual when I was a kid.
General Jumbo?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Jumbo
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/j/jumbo.htm
Chris Weston came up with a similar idea - Major Minor:
http://chrisweston.blogspot.com/2005/04/major-minor-machine-marines.html
Thank you!!!
Wasn't there another similarly themed one in the comic "School Fun" called "Terror Toys"?
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/t/toymaker.htm (http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/t/toymaker.htm)
Quote from: Garageman on 20 September, 2009, 11:22:50 PM
Wasn't there another similarly themed one in the comic "School Fun" called "Terror Toys"?
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/t/toymaker.htm (http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/t/toymaker.htm)
Interestingly that page links to another couple of comics that use this idea. There is also DC Comics' Toy Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyman).
Sems a popular idea ;)
I used to love these "action" stories that were in the Beano alongside the funnies - as well as General Jumbo, I remember the Q-bikes and Billy the Cat (brilliantly lampooned in Viz recently - kid in costume jumps in to fight crime and crims beat the crap out of him).
Ah, General Jumbo. Happy days. Change just one letter and 'jumbo' becomes 'jimbo', you know.
I can't believe I'm on the internet at midnight posting about General Jumbo.
Quoteas well as General Jumbo, I remember the Q-bikes and Billy the Cat
I used to love Billy the Cat (and Katy!). I'd give a fair wedge of cash for a collection of Beano, Beezer, Topper etc. stories from the early 1970's.
-Bouwel-
I used to work with the man who created Billy the Cat. He's a good lad, enjoying retirement now (the creator, not the character).
- Trout