I must briefly gloat over the purchase of a Heritage lot in yesterday's auction: an original of a daily Perishers strip. (I have the feeling that someone's cool collection of originals is being doled out at Heritage these days. Just saying.)

Anyway, this particular strip is fairly routine for the feature -- but "fairly routine" for the strip written by Maurice Dodd (1922-2005) and initially drawn by Dennis Collins (and mine was drawn by Collins) -- is still delicious fun. It ran in The Daily Mirror from 1958 to 2006 and basically featured a gang of kids wandering about what Wiki says "resembles an industrial Northern town."

I'm a bit stymied by the realization that there's no easy way to describe the strip. (Go ahead. Describe Peanuts in a couple of sentences that convey that long-lived strip about "a gang of kids.") Looks as if I'll have to try to locate a couple of choice examples.

In the meantime, I continue to gloat over my purchase.