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Handy
Andy

Andy
was a fleet-fingered soul who could make his hand
shadows come to life in the blink of an eye. He'd just wave
his fingers in the air and his creation would take off.
Handy
for getting himself out of sticky situations. Not so
clever
on cloudy days.
Actually, Andy tended to use lights and lamps when e'er
he could, and he frequently carried a torch with him
to
assist his "handiwork"...
The strip always ended with a panel detailing the handshadow
Andy had just performed, so us readers could have a
go. Here
are the first three creations we saw Andy make:

The character design was squarely seventies. Trendy
Andy
sported a spectacular growth of lanky hair, bell-bottoms
and
a double-pocket shirt - like, groovy, Andy...
Actually, our Andy was a bit of rebel. In Krazy
#2, we see
him and a pal fishing in a private river without
a permit. Andy
creates a water-spouting elephant to drive off
the landowner
and his gamekeeper so our youthful twosome can keep
on
fishing in peace - Tsk, tsk...
But how exactly did Andy aquire this incredible skill?
How come he could switch this magic power on and off
at will?
And why did it only seem to work when he created
shadow
that resembled things - I mean, why didn't he
create big,
lumpy, non-descript freaks from time to time?
- Obviously
a different kind of magic was at play here: Fleetway
magic.
Trivia Hounds may like to to note that the strip
was actually
reprinted some years after Krazy's demise in the pages
of
Buster/Nipper...
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