Allan Morley (

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, Great Britain, 29 April 1895 - Thanet, Kent 5 September 1960) was a British comic artist. He first worked for

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in 1925, drawing a number of

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for the ''

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'' and for DC Thomson's story papers including '' The Wizard'', where he drew Nero and Zero. He also drew a number of strips for both ''

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'' and ''

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'' from the late thirties until the early fifties. He drew

Keyhole Kate ''Keyhole Kate'' was a 1930s British comic strip series in '' The Dandy''. The strip featured a nosy young girl who liked to look through people's keyholes. She appeared in ''The Dandy''s first issue, drawn by Allan Morley back in 1937. She con ...

, Hungry Horace and

Freddie the Fearless Fly ''Freddy the Fearless Fly'' is a British comic strip series in '' The Dandy'' about a fly who is not scared of people. The strip began in the first issue in 1937, drawn by Allan Morley. In the 1990s, the strip returned, albeit more humorously, w ...

, three long-running strips which first appeared in the first issue of ''The Dandy''. He also drew a number of strips for ''The Beano'', including

Big Fat Joe Lord Snooty is a fictional character who stars in the British comic strip ''Lord Snooty and his Pals'' from the British comic anthology ''The Beano''. The strip debuted in issue 1, illustrated by DC Thomson artist Dudley D. Watkins, who designed ...

, which appeared in the comic's first issue. The last time he drew for ''The Beano'' was the last strip of

The Magic Lollipops Over the years ''The Beano'' has had many different strips, ranging from comic strips to adventure strips to prose stories. Prose stories were the first to go, being phased out in 1955. Adventure strips were phased out in 1975, with the last on ...

in issue 475 (25 August 1951). Allan Morley died in Kent on 5 September 1960.

Legacy

Allan Morley was held in such high regard by DC Thomson that they said the comics might close without him. Along with Dudley D. Watkins, Allan Morley was one of the first artists allowed to sign his work, which he did from January 1947. His strips even survived after his death with reprints of

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continuing in ''the Dandy'' until the 1970s.

Bibliography

The Skipper

* Wishbone Wuzzy-The Merry Magician

The Wizard

* Nero and Zero

The Rover

* Nosey Parker

The Dandy

* Hungry Horace *

The Beano

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References

1895 births 1960 deaths British cartoonists British comics artists British comics writers British comic strip cartoonists The Dandy people The Beano people {{UK-comics-creator-stub