Phil the First - a humorous strip from The Hornet

See The Hornet (Not sure in which issue the series started). Episodes appear in issues 284; 285; 288; 289; 290; 291; 293; 294; 295; 298; 299; 300; 302; 305; 308; 310; 311; 312; 322.

Writer:- The Hornet editorial team. Artist:- Not known. (But I have the feeling I should know).

Main cast:- Phil the First and Slimy Sid.

Time period:- late 20th Century.

These short one page adventures feature Phil doing his best to be the first to do a particular event. The villain of the piece is Slimy Sid who tries to knobble (sabotage) our hero and thus be first himself. The stories are not printed consecutively, which suggests that the stories were used when there was a spare page to be filled in the that week's comic.

The following adventures of Phil's and Sid's are from issues 296, 301 and 303.

Artist unknown. © D.C. Thomson Co. Ltd Artist unknown. © D.C. Thomson Co. Ltd Artist unknown. © D.C. Thomson Co. Ltd

© Adrian Banfield, 2008.