Peter Hoskin

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

Diceman no. 5 by Pat Mills and Hunt Emerson [© rebellion a/s all rights reserved]

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