Colonel Crackpot's Circus was a British comic strip, published from 1960 until 1963 inThe Beano. It was the first Beano comic strip drawn byMalcolm Judge, who later went on to drawBilly Whizz andBall Boy for the same comic, as well asThe Numskulls forThe Beezer.
The strip was about a circus and theslapstick adventures of the circus folk and often involved Colonel Crackpot (the circusringleader) trying not to pay his workforce what they were worth. In its Beano incarnation the main characters were Colonel Crackpot (the ringleader), Charlie Globes (the strong man, his name being a play onCharles Atlas), and Cynthia the fat lady.[1]
The comic strip was later revived inThe Dandy, under the titlePinky's Crackpot Circus, in a strip drawn byNick Brennan and later byGary Northfield. This revival first appeared in October 2003. Characters during this time included Pinky the ringleader, Spanky and Blotto the clowns, Brenda the bearded lady, Rick the human cannonball, Thomas the tightrope walker, Lenny the lion tamer, and Mehmet the elephant.
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