Bimbo

Subtitle: "The Picture Paper for Young Children"

Publisher: D.C. Thomson

Format: Weekly anthology

First Issue: Bimbo #1 (18th March 1961)

Last Issue: Bimbo #567 (22nd January 1972)

Absorbed: None

Absorbed into: None

Strips: Aladdin and His Magic Lamp, Baby Crockett, Billy Big Ears, Bimbo, Bimbo's Playmates, Buttons, The Cheery Chicks, Cinderella, The Cow With the Crumpled Horn, The Good Ship Lollipop, Goosey Gander, The Hector Heathcote Show, Jingles, The Jolly Mixtures, Little Hans and Big Feet, Little Snow White, Mandy the Mermaid, Michael and May of Sea-Shell Bay, Mighty Mouse, Old MacDonald's Farm, A Page for Your Scrapbook, Pam's Playmates, Patsy the Panda (later Peter and Patsy - The Perky Pandas), Pip the Penguin, Polly and her Dollies, Pussy Willow, The Teddy Bears (later Puzzle Play-Time with the Teddy Bears, The Teddy Bear's Puzzle Page), Tick-Tock Tommy, Tim Twinkle and the Toytownies, Tinker and the Taylors, Tom Thumb, Wendy in the Land of Nursery Rhymes, Yorky, Young Robin Crusoe, Your Bedtime Story (series of short prose tales)

Comments: A comic aimed at nursery age children.

The Hector Heathcote Show	Pussy Willow	Tick-Tock Tommy	Tinker and the Taylors - Tinker the pony belongs to twins Sandy and Sue Taylor, who live with their uncle, Bobo the Clown, as part of Merry's circus.	Mighty Mouse
Baby Crockett	Jingles	Goosey Gander	Yorky
The Cheery Chicks	Billy Big Ears	Polly and her Dollies - Polly's Dollies came to life after she wished upon a star.	Wendy in the Land of Nursery Rhymes	Young Robin Crusoe	Old MacDonald's Farm
Bimbo	Michael and May (Martin) of Sea-Shell Bay		Pip the Penguin (and his brother Squeak)	The Teddy Bears (Neddy and Kiltie shown)
					Aladdin and his Magic Lamp
Tom Thumb (and his friend Simon Jolly)			Peter and Patsy Panda		Little Hans and Big Feet
Little Snow White				Buttons	Mandy the Mermaid

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