General Jumbo

[KeithS]

A while back I was talking with a friend about how I first became interested in wargaming.  I suppose my first contact with wargaming was reading an article in an Annual (Eagle maybe?) by Donald Featherstone, but I didn't get much further until a few years later I came across his War Games book in the library.  However The seeds were possibly planted much earlier by the General Jumbo comic strip in the Beano, anyone else remember this?

Now if only Pendraken would start producing radio controlled lancers.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Can't get the electronics small enough yet, it's on it's way.

[jimduncanuk]

However The seeds were possibly planted much earlier by the General Jumbo comic strip in the Beano, anyone else remember this?

Yup, General Jumbo was one of my favourites in the 60's and 70's.

[Nirnman]

"General Jumbo" haven't heard that in years likewise, I suppose it planted the subliminal seeds of wargaming in my head.

[Ben Waterhouse]

One of my childhood favourites!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

He was still in the Beano until the early 80s.

[KeithS]

He was still in the Beano until the early 80s.

That's quite surprising, he must have had a pretty good innings then, I was well under 10 when I was reading the Beano in the sixties, but had stopped by the eighties of course.

[T13A]

Hi

Well that brought back a few memories! 

Just checked my son's Beano annuals and General Jumbo was still around to 2010 at least.

I am trying to remember who his arch enemy was?   :-

Cheers Paul

[fsn]

[Poggle]

General Jumbo! Good heavens, that takes me back. 

[steve_holmes_11]

"General Jumbo" haven't heard that in years likewise, I suppose it planted the subliminal seeds of wargaming in my head.

Must admit, I was hoping for an elephant, who was a General.
Preferably a speaking elephant.

[Steve J]

Now I must admit I cannot remember this character, despite getting the Beano and Dandy as a young kid in the 60's. All I can remember are Minnie the Minx, Desperate Dan and the Bash Street Kids.

[Elliesdad]

I must admit it took quite a few years before I realised that the name of Dennis the Menace's dog - Gnasher - was pronounced with a silent G.

[Leman]

Yes, I remember General Jumbo, but Corporal Clott was funnier. Airfix got me into wargaming after my long association with Britains (can't remember far enough back when I didn't have any Britains toy soldiers - metal knights, plastic Swoppetts, cowboys, cavalry and Indians, Battle of Waterloo and 8th Army and Afrika Korps).

[FierceKitty]

And a 25 pdr that fired matchsticks!