The Yeti with Betty was a comic strip

Comic strip

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 in the UK

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 comic

Comic book

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 The Beano

The Beano

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, first appearing in issue 2633, dated 2 January 1993, and drawn throughout by Robert Nixon

Robert Nixon (artist)

Robert Nixon was an artist who worked on several British comics.Bob was born in South Bank, Middlesbrough, in North Yorkshire on July 7, 1939. He was the fifth of six children born to Arthur Nixon and Phylis Thompson. Robert's mother Phylis worked as a housewife while his father worked locally...

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Sick of the cold weather and lack of company, a talking yeti

Yeti

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 flees the Himalaya by grabbing onto the wheel of a passing aeroplane

Fixed-wing aircraft

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, landing in the white cliffs of Dover

White cliffs of Dover

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. While there, he meets a young girl called Betty, who befriends the yeti and adopts it as her pet. The subsequent strips followed the adventures of the yeti as he tried to adjust to city life.

Appearing in the comic throughout the year, the strip last appeared in issue 2678, dated 13 November 1993.

However, the strip appeared in the 1995 Beano Annual.