A comic drawn by Bob Monkhouse in which a superhero battles giant penises? Yes, it’s all here

British comic strips were nothing if not subversive, as this new British Library exhibition shows

From magazine issue: 28 June 2014

issue 28 June 2014

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Peter Hoskin

A comic drawn by Bob Monkhouse in which a superhero battles giant penises? Yes, it’s all here
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Fwoooosh! That, were someone to write a strip about it, would be the sound of a thousand comic books going up in flames. They used to do that, you know; burn comics. It was mostly in America, in the late 1940s, after these DayGlo fictions, with their monsters and superheroes and suggestive curves, were declared bad for children’s health.