Colonel Crackpot's Circus was a strip in The Beano it started in 1960 ended in 1963 and was the first Beano comic strip drawn by Malcolm Judge.
The comic strip was later revived in The Dandy, under the title Pinky's Crackpot Circus, in a strip drawn by Nick Brennan and later drawn by Gary Northfield. This revival first appeared in October 2003.
