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| Harry's first appearance |
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| Different look for third appearance |
In the 27 May 1978 issue, Harry gave Cheeky a copy of The Mystery Comic (surprisingly not a photo of it).
Flash Harry was featured throughout Cheeky's Week in the comic dated 15 July 1978, as he followed the toothy funster around in the hope of obtaining a snap worthy of the local paper's prize for the most unusual photo of the week. Although a number of suitably extraordinary events occurred, for various unlikely reasons Harry was unable to obtain a picture, and in an ironic twist found himself the subject of the winning entry.
In the comic dated 16 September 1978, Frank McDiarmid introduced a differently-nosed Flash Harry, and Frank carried on drawing this new version of the silly snapper in all his subsequent work on the character, while other artists continued to draw the more generously-nosed Harry, as he had originally appeared.
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| 16 September 1978 - First appearance of Frank's new version of Harry |
In the 07 October 1978 issue, somebody realised that an opportunity for a joke had been missed on the previous occasion that Harry had provided Cheeky with his copy of The Mystery Comic, and this time the funny photographer did indeed give the toothy funster a photo of the mysterious publication.
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| 20 October 1979 - Mike Lacey, like all the artists other than Frank, continues to draw Harry with the original nose |
In his only front page appearance, Harry was in evidence in the Cheeky's Week strip on the cover of the 03 February 1979 issue.
Harry featured in The Burpo Special dated 16 June 1979, which had as its subject Burpo himself, who was depicted in a series of photos that Harry had doctored to make the belligerent babe look heroic. Harry was the subject of the Pin-Up Pal poster in the comic dated 09 December 1978.
Like Snail and Baby Burpo, Flash Harry graduated to his own feature, but unlike his illustrious pals, Harry's feature was merely a sporadic filler, Silly Snaps.
UPDATE 10 May 2012 - for information on how Flash Harry is the key to a reassignment of artist credits, please see here, and here.
UPDATE 10 May 2012 - for information on how Flash Harry is the key to a reassignment of artist credits, please see here, and here.
| Character | Total Issues | First Appearance | Final Appearance |
| Flash Harry | 41 | 31-Dec-1977 | 29-Dec-1979 |
Flash Harry - Number of appearances by Element
| Element | Number of Appearances |
| Saturday | 25 |
| Thursday | 7 |
| Friday | 6 |
| Wednesday | 3 |
| Tuesday | 2 |
| Cheeky's Week | 1 |
| Christmas Day | 1 |
| Easter Saturday | 1 |
| Interval | 1 |
| Monday | 1 |
| Sunday evening | 1 |
| The Burpo Special | 1 |
Flash Harry - Number of appearances by Page
| Page | Number of Appearances |
| 31 | 9 |
| 25 | 6 |
| 23 | 5 |
| 30 | 4 |
| 20 | 3 |
| 21 | 3 |
| 26 | 3 |
| 24 | 2 |
| 32 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 |
| 8 | 1 |
| 9 | 1 |
| 10 | 1 |
| 12 | 1 |
| 13 | 1 |
| 15 | 1 |
| 17 | 1 |
| 19 | 1 |
| 22 | 1 |
| 28 | 1 |
| 29 | 1 |
Count of elements by artist
| Character | Artist | Total Elements |
| Flash Harry | Frank McDiarmid | 17 |
| Flash Harry | Mike Lacey | 16 |
| Flash Harry | Frank McDiarmid pencils | 9 |
| Flash Harry | Jim Watson | 3 |
| Flash Harry | Barrie Appleby | 3 |
| Flash Harry | Unknown Cheeky Artist 1 | 1 |
| Flash Harry | Dick Millington | 1 |
He must of had a nose job...poor chap..and those artists still kept drawing him witha big nose it was a waste of money for Harry!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCheeky's relatives i'm sure theres something similar..:))
ReplyDelete...even the dog looks strangely familiar!
ReplyDeleteTo get the photo to look like that..all the family had to be covered in flour and then Cheeky put on a red jumper...or maybe its a camera trick..
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