Comic: Colorado Kid

 

The Colorado Kid was another unlikely character dreamt up by comic writers in an often vain attempt to breathe new life in to the stale school story genre.

The basic idea was that Spud Branigan, the son of a Colorado trapper, had been sent to one of the top public (i.e. elite) schools in England. An American millionaire had in effect bribed the headmaster to take him on as a pupil.

Naturally, the six-feet tall boy was a fish out of water and didn’t understand the rules. When he was made to ‘fag’ for a prefect (that is, work as his servant) he ended up caning the sixth-former.

In the episode below, the prefects must now decide how to deal with Spud.

The Colorado Kid appeared in the Hornet which was published by D. C. Thomson from September 1963 to February 1976, after which it was merged with the Hotspur.

Find editions of the Hotspur at British Comic Compilations here.

Hornet, Issue 94.

Picture credit: D C Tomson.

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