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Jane (comic strip)

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Jane was a comic strip created and drawn by Norman Pett exclusively for the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror from 5 December 1932 to 10 October 1959. [1]

29 relations: BBC, Birmingham, Chrystabel Leighton-Porter, Comic strip, Dachshund, Daily Mirror, Don Markstein's Toonopedia, Entertainments National Service Association, Glynis Barber, Golf, Ingénue, Jane and the Lost City, King Features Syndicate, Kirsten Hughes (actress), Lady Jane Grey, Little Annie Fanny, Male Call, Milton Caniff, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, Nazism, Norman Pett, Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, Striptease, Tabloid (newspaper format), Television, The Adventures of Jane, Time (magazine), United Kingdom, World War II.

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Chrystabel Leighton-Porter

Chrystabel Leighton-Porter (11 April 1913 – 6 December 2000) was the model for the Second World War Daily Mirror newspaper cartoon heroine Jane which boosted morale during the Blitz.

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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.

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Dachshund

The dachshund (UK: /ˈdakshʊnd/ or or) (badger dog; also known as the sausage dog or wiener dog) is a short-legged, long-bodied, hound-type dog breed.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.

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Don Markstein's Toonopedia

Don Markstein's Toonopedia (subtitled A Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge) is a web encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation, initiated February 13, 2001.

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Entertainments National Service Association

The Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) was an organisation set up in 1939 by Basil Dean and Leslie Henson to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel during World War II.

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Glynis Barber

Glynis Barber (born Glynis van der Riet; 25 October 1955) is a South African actress.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Ingénue

The ingénue is a stock character in literature, film, and a role type in the theatre; generally a girl or a young woman who is endearingly innocent and wholesome.

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Jane and the Lost City

Jane and the Lost City was a 1987 UK film, based on the British newspaper strip Jane by Norman Pett.

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King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate, Inc. is a print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles, and games to nearly 5,000 newspapers worldwide.

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Kirsten Hughes (actress)

Kirsten Hughes (born 1963) is a former British actress best known for playing cartoon strip heroine Jane in the 1987 film Jane and the Lost City.

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Lady Jane Grey

Lady Jane Grey (Her exact date of birth is uncertain; many historians agree on the long-held estimate of 1537 while others set it in the later half of 1536 based on newer research. – 12 February 1554), known also as Lady Jane Dudley (after her marriage) and as "the Nine Days' Queen", was an English noblewoman and de facto Queen of England and Ireland from 10 July until 19 July 1553.

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Little Annie Fanny

Little Annie Fanny is a comics series by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder.

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Male Call

Male Call was an American comic strip series created and drawn by Milton Caniff on a volunteer basis, exclusively for US military publications during World War II.

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Milton Caniff

Milton Arthur Paul "Milt" Caniff (February 28, 1907 – April 3, 1988) was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.

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Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes

The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) is an organisation created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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Norman Pett

Norman Pett (27 April 1891, Kings Norton, Worcestershire - 16 February 1960, Sussex) was an English artist who, in 1932 created the famous cartoon character, 'Jane' for the Daily Mirror.

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Pip, Squeak and Wilfred

Pip, Squeak and Wilfred was a British strip cartoon published in the Daily Mirror from 1919 to 1956, as well as the Sunday Pictorial in the early years.

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Striptease

A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner.

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Tabloid (newspaper format)

A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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The Adventures of Jane

The Adventures of Jane is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Edward G. Whiting.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_(comic_strip)

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