Inflation in old Desperate Dan comic.

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Inflation in old Desperate Dan comic.

OK, I've been sitting on this sighting for some years now... but I had kind of forgotten about it.

My brother used to get the Dandy comic (I got Beano)... the main character in Dandy was Desperate Dan, a big 'gentle giant' cowboy who didn't know his own strength. He was always trying to do right, but messing it up through his strength (he ate cow pies with the tail and horns sticking out and shaved with a blowtorch).

In one comic, in a Dandy Annual (can't remember which year) he was at CPR training with a dummy (and because this was a comic, there was no difference in appearance between the dummy and the real people).

He goes to give the dummy a kiss of life, but blows too hard and she inflates like a balloon before exploding, with scraps of her clothing being scattered around.

Anyone know of it. I might look for it next time I'm at my parents'.

nineteenthly

I've seen an annual with an illustration of Desperate Dan with an inflated chest on the front. It may have been a theme that was often revisited.

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Zepylin

Oh, I've got that one. It's one of the 90s annuals definitely.

Unfortunately you don't see too much; just glimpses of the sides of the dummy as it expands for two panels. The first one is presumably her front blowing up, but it's only part of a sphere with the same pattern as the dress the dummy was wearing (and a small square hole, presumably the collar of the dress). Then you see a bit more of it, but it still just looks like a big patterned sphere, except this one has a puffy arm sticking out from it.

It's nothing too impressive. Dan himself has been inflated many times in the past anyway, like one time where he inhaled gas to fatten himself up to act as a circus fat lady and another time where he drinks a huge container of fuel to stop it form leaking.

nineteenthly

The thing is, i obviously look at these things in a particular way, so how much is it just a joke for people and how often is it something more than that as well? I can accept the humorous side of it, but it has a whole other dimension. I just can't tell if there are secret inflation fetishists doing some of this or not. The rather obscure 'TV Comic' has a couple of inflation scenes too.

http://www.youtube.com/user/nineteenthly

 

Murkstorm

Apparently, in the Christmas issue for 1938, Desperate Dan delivered the mail as a balloon.

Anonymous

A lot of this sounds pretty interesting. Any chances for scans of the comic?