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Bill
and Coo

Bill
was a young lad who had a series of encounters and
adventures with his favourite feathered friend,
a pigeon
called Coo. Coo was a clever old bird, handy
for sending
messages across town
or retrieving out-of-reach items...

The first-ever strip introduces Coo arriving in
a new town,
looking for a place to perch in the park, only
to be ensnared
by Miser Moggs, who's pretending to be a statue so's
he
catch himself a pigeon for his pie. Bill spies
old Moggs
trapping Coo under his hat and he gives chase. He chucks
a penny at his hat but misses. All seems lost until
Moggs
reappears to snatch up the self-same penny:

Bill and Coo take flight and a brand new friendship
is formed!
Interesting how Miser Moggs bears more than a passing
resemblance to that other famous Fleetway miser Jasper
the
Grasper
from Cor!! - That's probably because both Jasper and
Bill and Coo were drawn by top strip artist Trevor
Metcalfe...
Interesting too, how that same origin strip reappeared
in
colour in the 1993 Whoopee! Holiday Special...
Most interesting of all, however, is the fact
that this must
surely have been Fleetway's most unhygenic strip
ever.
By all accounts, old Coo is nothing more
than a scraggy
town pigeon. And Bill lets him perch on his head
- Yeek!
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