General Jumbo

[gringo]

a childhood favourite....just had to have him
sculpted...........
lovely sculpt almost finished
release post a Salute

cheers
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[Vanvlak]

a childhood favourite....just had to have him
sculpted...........
lovely sculpt almost finished
release post a Salute

cheers
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

And with 6mm scale tanks, perhaps, an army can be designed for him too

[Steve F]

I'm glad you've gone for the wrist controller, rather than the handset.  I made one out of cardboard when I was a nipper - sadly, not functional!

[gringo]

thanks Chaps a must have figure for me to do

need to look at the scaling of his army....

should be fun!!

cheers

Ged

www.gringo40s.com

[Plynkes]

He had a very brief cameo in Grant Morrison's Zenith (in 2000AD), when the superheroes* of all the various dimensions teamed up to fight the Lloigor, and you got to play "Where's Wally?" trying to spot characters from various old British comics.



Hate to tell you this, guys: you don't see what becomes of him, but he isn't among the small group of survivors at the conclusion. I think the Many-Angled Ones got 'im. 






*Including my personal favourite from those dim, far-off days: Robot Archie.

[gringo]

that's a pity Plynkes.........thought he was
immortal (ish)

cheers
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[Bugsda]

  Outstanding Ged, I so wanted to be him as a kid.........what comic was it, Victor maybe?

[gringo]

cheers Chris...Beano methinks.............

see you at Salute?

 ............loved the character
like you 

cheers
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[joroas]

Beano indeed....

[joroas]

For those who never read them:

[Steve F]

He had a very brief cameo in Grant Morrison's Zenith (in 2000AD)

Another thinly-disguised version, "Tusker", is killed by the Fury in Alan Moore and Alan Davis's "Captain Britain".

Below is the first "General Jumbo" strip in The Beano, from September 1953.  Art is by Paddy Brennan.  The character and story will probably have been devised collectively by editor George Moonie and his staff at D C Thomson (there were no freelance writers than).  The series ran until 1975, then intermittently til the 1990s.  It still crops up from time to time in Annuals.  As you can see, Jumbo was originally a hefty lad, thus earning his nickname.

[gringo]

Joroas and Steve F great postings not seen either
of these............


cheers
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[Hobby Services]

Not a piece of my childhood and I'd never heard of the character before now, but the idea of a Superfigs team composed of a single 28mm scale controller fig and a bunch of 6mm or 10mm scale troops/tanks as henchmen is strangely appealing.

[gringo]

Hobby Services indeed.............that was part of the appeal then..
"early wargame" figures controlled by oneself in the guise of the
young General

cheers
Ged
www.gringo40s.com