Sherwick Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Beano was rubbish and for girls compared to > Valiant! The Valiant was of course for boys, Cap'n Hurricane very rarely got in touch with his feminine side, though looking back on it his relationship with his batman 'Maggot' Malone may have been why he used to have his 'ragin' furies'. Thwarted sexuality perhaps? Though Jack O' Justice had a female sidekick, Moll Moonlight, she was blond and pretty and used to give me a funny feeling in my lower stomach. Mind I used to read my sister's Bunty on the quiet, there was the cut out doll on the back page and Mary Raleigh of the Four Marys - cue funny feeling in lower stomach. I would always find myself getting involved with the stories about the crippled ballerinas with cruel stepmothers who were taken on as protegees by strict but kindly Russian emigrees. These strips were usually called 'I Shall Dance'. But have a care the way you talk of the Beano Sherwick, agreed it's long past its best but was a great kid's comic. And it was not for girls, it was of course unisex.