Real
Name: Kit Katz Spare-Part Kit
Real
Name: Kit Katz
Identity/Class: Human technology user
Occupation: School boy
Group Membership:
Affiliations: Professor Katz, Henry, Horace, Boris, Doris, KBR (Steamy Sid, Kid Banjo), Bill and Coo, Kid Comic, Adam and his Ants, British Secret Service, Cedric, Margery Pargery
Enemies: President Krunshki, Munchski, Fruitski, Nutski, Haggis McToot, Howard Gleek, Tootun Camel (the Desert Bat), Snapcrackle Popadopalis, Acme Spy Agency, Bonkers Brigade (Brian Bonkers, Kevin Kretin, Stuart Stupid, Ian Ear'ole), Frankenfruitski's Monster, Julius Junk, Mr Coffin, Slambo, Jumbo, Combo
Known
Relatives: Tom Katz (father), unidentified grandfather, Kitty
(aunt), Kate (cousin), Gertrude (aunt), Kat (cousin)
Aliases: impersonated President Krunchski
Base of Operations: Rickets House, Extown, U.K.;
formerly Zoblolnia
First Appearance: Wow!#1 (I.P.C., 5th June 1982);
Powers/Abilities: The bionic limbs made Kit superstrong and superfast. They were also bulletproof, and had been programmed to only work for Kit; if anyone else donned them (without him resetting them to work for them), the limbs would soon begin to attack the wearer. The parts included a control cap that could remotely pilot the parts without anyone having to wear them.
Kit was bilingual, fluent in English and Zoblobnian.
Height: Unrevealed
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Blond (see comments)
Summary: Zoblobnian sacientist Professor Tom Katz invented electronic "spare parts," bionic limbs which the user could attach over their own to make themselves incredibly strong. Realizing his country's corrupt president, Krunshki, intended to use them to cheat at the forthcoming Los Angeles Olympic Games in two years time, Katz and his son Kit defected to England to prevent his, so Krunshki sent Zoblobnia's two greatest spies, the masters of disguise Fruitski and Nutski, to steal the spare parts back.
History:
Comments: Created by Graham Exton, originally drawn by Vic Neill, then later Robert Nixon and Trevor Metcalfe.
Wow!#33's Spare-Part Kit story became a mini-crossover story for the comic as Steamy Sid and Kid Banjo from KBR, Coo from Bill and Coo, Adam and his Ants, and Kid Comic all helped MI6 hunt for a kidnapped Kit.
Unlike many humour strips,, Spare-Part Kit came to a definite close with Kit and his father eventually set off on a globetrotting multi-episode adventure pursued by Fruitski and Nutski that ended in Los Angeles at the 1984 Olympic Games. When the games ended, so too did the strip. Though in theory there was no reason Kit's story had to end there (he was still alive and in possession of the limbs), the spies' main reason for wanting to steal the Parts had been thwarted, so it made for a natural end point to the series.
Kit's strip was normally in black and white, but he was depicted in colour five times that I know of. As was so often the case, because the colourists didn't have a baseline reference to work with his colour scheme wasn't consistent. The first was in Barney's Badges in Wow!#25, where a version of him appeared on one of the titular Barney's badges, depicting him with red hair, a red tunic, blue fish scaled trunks, red boots, and flesh coloured bionic limbs. Then on the cover of Wow!#37 his hair colour was reddish blond, perhaps ginger, his bionic limbs flesh coloured, his tunic black with red buttons and his trunks green. Then he appeared alongside all the characters appearing in Whoopee on the cover of the first issue where Wow! merged with it, and there he was definitely blond, flesh coloured limbs, black tunic with red buttons and black trunks. In Wow! Holiday Special 1986 his hair was suddenly brown, his tunic red, no buttons, black trunks, green limbs and purple boots. Finally in Whoopee Holiday Special 1992 (as shown at the top of this page) he was blond again, his tunic was black but with blue buttons and highlights, his trunks blue, and his limbs flesh coloured again.
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Appearance checklist (not including reprints):
Wow!#1-9, 11-56, Wow! Annual 1984-1986, Wow! Summer Special 1983-1987; Whoopee! (all unnumbered) #476-489 (2nd July
1983-1st October 1983), #491 (15th October 1983), #493-497 (29th
October-26th November 1983), #499-514 (10th December 1983-24th March
1984), #516-533 (7th April-4th August 1984)
Note: Kit's appearance in Whoopee Holiday Special 1991 and
1992 were reprints of earlier stories
CLARIFICATIONS:
Spare-Part Kit should not be confused with:
First Posted: Circa 14/09/2004
Last updated: 06/06/2023
Any Additions/Corrections? Please let me know.
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