Skid Kidd is a comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 by Rod McKie

Rod McKie

Rod McKie , is a full-time professional cartoonist residing in the UK. He began drawing gag cartoons for Britain's national press whilst still at school....

. It appeared in the IPC comic book

Comic book

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 Buster

Buster (comic)

Buster was a long-running British comic which carried a mixture of humour and adventure strips, although the former increasingly replaced the latter...

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Plot summary

The central character, Mike Kidd, is sitting around one day when out of the blue a large crate, containing a bike, lands in his garden. The bike is actually a secret weapon going under the acronym S.A.M (Super Action Machine) and the bad guys who stole the bike want it back.

Skid Kidd

The comic began as an ongoing comedy adventure where a group of villains with weird and wonderful devices that came up with ever more desperate and zany plans to recover the bike. During its run, Mike Kidd's adventures were used by the Raleigh bike company to promote a competition for their Vektor bike, which was given as a prize to the reader who solved Skid Kidd's villain problem in a special two-part episode. Over time, the format changed from continuing cliffhanger-style story, to the preferred IPC format of a gag-a-page.

External links

• Rod McKie's website