The Yank at Red Circle School
The Red
Circle School first appeared in the Hotspur when it
launched in 1932 and was a mainstay of the storypaper / comic for the next 25
years. It competed with the Billy Bunter stories in the Magnet. The stories
featured a more energetic, exciting, and more up-to-date public school than
Greyfriars. It soon became one of the most popular school stories of its time.
This
episode called Terror of Yank House was published on 14 October 1933. To the
distress of the Red Circle regulars, a new boy, Spike Moran, arrives at the
school and not only is he American, his father is a famous boxer.
Moran is a
bully but he hadn’t reckoned with Mr
Smuggs, the schoolmaster, ‘a fussy man who was noted for his harsh temper and
the number of canes he broke in the course of a term.’
Click here to read other Red Circle School stories.
You can find this and other
early issues of the Hotspur on Comic Book Plus.
Picture credits: D. C. Thomson
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comics and story papers, click here
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As many readers will probably know. Caning a boy while his head was stuck in a window, was also the method used for a "Pop tanning" at Eton. It prompted the putting together of these two otherwise unrelated pics: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51714212641_577c2d9edf_c.jpg
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