Issue 114, 1967
Sparky (The Sparky Comic from 1973) was a weekly humour comic published by DC Thomson, aimed at a slightly younger audience than The Beano and The Dandy, from 23 January 1965 to 9 July 1977, when it merged with The Topper after 652 issues.
Strips included:
- "Ah-Choo!"
- "Ali's Baba" - Continued in The Topper, reprinted in The Dandy as Jimmy's Green Genie in 2003-4.
- "Baron Von Reichs-Pudding" (The flying Hun from vorld var von!)
- "Barney Bulldog" - drawn by Bill Ritchie
- "Captain Cutler and his Butler" - a Victorian explorer, Egbert Cutler, searching for the source of the river Bongo, and his polite but long-suffering manservant Crumbs. This strip was notable for including the writer and artist as off-panel characters; Crumbs would interact with them and request changes to the strip in order to assist the clueless Cutler
- "Dreamy Daniel"
- "Dreamy Dave and Dozy Dora" a brother and sister who constantly dozed off and shared the same bizarre but vivid fantasy dreams
- "Hungry Horace" (originally from The Dandy) A boy who thought of nothing but eating, drawn by George Drysdale
- "I-Spy", a secret agent with a long coat which concealed hundreds of weapons and gadgets.
- "Invisible Dick" He was a boy who had a magic torch which shone black light and made things invisible.
- "Keyhole Kate" (originally from The Dandy), a nosey girl with pigtails and glasses who spied through keyholes, drawn by George Drysdale. Later moved back to The Dandy.
- "L-Cars" - two incompetent policemen
- "Minnie the Tea Lady" - Drawn by Jim Petrie.
- "The Moonsters", green aliens living on the moon - drawn by Bill Ritchie. Originally on the back page, but soon became the cover story.
- Mr Bubbles - a 'bubble imp' living in a plastic bottle similar to washing-up liquid. Each strip someone would squeeze it and he would grant three wishes
- Pansy Potter, the strong-man's daughter - drawn by John Geering, revival of 1940s Beano strip.
- Peter Piper, a boy with magic pipes which could make objects and pictures alive, revival of story from The Magic Comic.
- Planet Of The Nirdles
- Puss an' Boots - drawn by John Geering
- Snip and Snap - two dogs eternally conspiring to bite the visiting postman. Reprinted as "The Red Hot Chilli Dogs" in the The Dandy Xtreme as of August 2007.
- Some Mummies Do 'Ave 'Em - the final cover story.
- Sparky - the adventures of a black boy who wore a grass skirt. Sparky was the original cover story until replaced with The Moonsters.
- Sparky People - a semi-fictional office staff who produced Sparky
- Spoofer McGraw
- Thingummy Blob
- Wee Tusky
- Willie Getaway ("or will he not") - who thinks he is a wanted criminal as he can't read the small print on the 'wanted' posters that he has in fact inherited a large fortune, spending each strip trying to escape 'capture' by people wanting the reward for finding him
