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Bix Barton is a fictional comic book character featured in the British science fiction anthology magazine 2000 AD . The character was created by artist Jim McCarthy and writer Peter Milligan, and first appeared in print in 1990. [1]

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The Barton stories are humorous in nature and deal with the adventures of the character in his role as sole employee of Her Majesty's Government's Department of the Irrational where he uses Holmes-like abilities to solve cases relating to weird and supernatural ("rum and uncanny") events.

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  1. "Bix Barton (Character) - Comic Vine". Comic Vine. Retrieved 3 September 2018.