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Lumbering Jack

'Lumbering Jack' (the 142 years old Policeman) was drawn by Andrew Christine for 10 issues of The Topper comic in 1970. It was an eerily comic depiction of a 19th-century bobby awaken from a Gypsy's curse to deal with the social problems of yobbish youths in the early 1970s.

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The Topper was a UK comic published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd that ran from 1953 to 1990, when it merged with The Beezer.

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