Bimbo

BIMBO was the flagship 'tiny tots' nursery comic published by D C Thomson between 1961 and 1972. Printed on classier, glossier paper more along the lines of the summer specials from the same company, [and costing an olde-currency sixpence as a result!] the comic contained 20 pages of nicely-rendered kiddie-fare. The logo depicted reader-identification icon BIMBO himself, [see main illustration], and the cover benefitted from the sheer prestige of having Dudley D Watkins artwork in the shape of 'Tom Thumb'. This strip contained much endearing fantasy imagery as the diminuitive TOM interacted with mice and other small creatures, often utilizing small props to novel effect. [This strip had appeared in Beano earlierthough obviously not in full-colour, as was the case here--].

Other BIMBO strips were impeccably put out by Bob Dewar, Ron Spencer and Bill Ritchie. Ritchie produced all-new Baby Crockett strips for this comic, and they were approached quite differently to the BEEZER variations, which were assembled concurrently.