Baby Crockett (Bimbo)

Although hardly as universally-known as the more famous Beezer counterpart, BABY CROCKETT did indeed enjoy a long run within the glossier pages of Bimbo, in wholly seperate adventures drawn up by the self-same artist Bill Ritchie, who somewhat unusually turned out two pages of this strip weekly, both aimed at quite different readerships.

The BIMBO version is most noticable for it's wholesome innocence, as the dimunitive Baby explores the world around him from his own toddler perspective. [I say: 'toddler', but he can take to his heels when the need arises!] The main difference is in the total absence of word-balloons in the juvenile version, which is replaced by the customary BIMBO technique of having captions along the bottom of the frames. In all other respects, [the characters of Baby's Mum, Dad, his little friends, etc] are identical in both versions, although the deliberate 'baby -talk' of the BEEZER [Baby referes to himself as 'Me's', his Mum is 'Mumsie', etc] is abandoned altogether in the tiny-tots version, presumably in an intent to encourage very young readers to read properly.