Colonel Crackpot's Circus
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 strip was about a circus and the slapstick adventures of the circus folk and often involved Colonel Crackpot (the cicus ringleader) trying not to pay his workforce what they were worth. In it's Beano incarnation the main characters were Colonel Crackpot (the ringleader), Charlie Globes (the strong man his name is a play on Charles Atlas) and Cynthia the fat lady.[1]
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.
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