Crazy Car Capers
Concept:
The strip was clearly inspired by the Hanna-Barbera cartoon
Wacky Races and featured an ongoing serial about an unusual
car race around Britain.
Prize: the ultimate prize for the winner of the championship
was a
substantial £ 100,000, a very large sum at the time
(equivalent.to over
£1,3: million in today's money).
Characters:
The main contestants were four British drivers,
often relying on national stereotypes for humour.
Bulldog Brown: an English racer who drove a coal powered car.
Mac Macintosh: a Scottish character
Dai Williams: a Welsh character:
Paddy O'Toole: an Irish character.
Plot:
The racers competed in various legs of the race, often facing
disruption from agents of the fictional
eastern : European nation
of Mundavia and their operative, Colonel Kutch.
Artist: the artwork for the strip was provided by Francisco Solano López.
"Crazy Car Capers" was a serialized comic strip featured in the British
weekly anthology Jet, published by IPC Magazines,
from 1 May 1971 to 25 September 1971.
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Compiled and edited by H. C.
We thank H. C. for his courtesy in offering our reader
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