Freddy the Fearless Fly

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Freddy the Fearless Fly is a British comic strip series in The Dandy about a fly who is not scared of people. The strip began in the first issue in 1937, drawn by Allan Morley. [1] In the 1990s, the strip returned, albeit more humorously, with stories such as Freddy rasping at a vampire in front of a TV, these were drawn by Gordon Bell and Tom Paterson. The strip returned again in 2011, as a quarter-page strip. This strip is out of series at the moment was drawn by Phil Corbett and involved his encounters with cool flies and humans.

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  1. "Beano Artists".