Wee Peem
| Wee Peem | |
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| Appearance timeline | Issues 1 – 89, 714 – 765, 486 – 507, 3945[1] |
| Author(s) | Uncredited |
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Wee Peem was a British comic strip character in The Beano, first written and designed by James Jewell.[2] He starred in two comic strips between 1938 and 1957, and would get up to various forms of mischief in a similar way to later Beano strips such as Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx.
Synopsis
[edit | edit source]Peem is a little boy with a large, round head with long limbs, usually dressed in a stripy jumper, shorts, and a strip cap too small for his head. His stories would be about his misbehaviours irritating and angering adults. His name is "Little James" in the Scots language.
Character history
[edit | edit source]Peem debuted in Wee Peem (He's a Proper Scream) in The Beano's first issue[Note 1][4] with Lord Snooty and His Pals, Helpful Henry, Morgyn the Mighty, The Adventures of Tom Thumb, and Big Eggo.[5] The Beano magazine contained two types of children's fiction: comic strips and adventure prose stories; Wee Peem was the former, inspired by the funny pages of American newspapers.[5] When it ended in issue 89,[6] DC Thomson reprinted some of the Wee Peem strips in The People's Journal, along with some new stories by James Malcolm.[2]
A similar character in both appearance and mannerisms appeared in the first Dandy Monster Comic under the name Dipper the Dodger.[7]
Peem returned to The Beano a decade later in issue 486's Wee Peem's Magic Pills,[8] a 21-issue series by Charles Grigg about Peem and his mischief after finding a bottle of tablets (named B-Pills)[9] that fell from Dr Quack's medicine truck.[10] Peem made his first Beano Annual appearance in 1940.[11]
In 1956, the Wee Peem strip got rebooted by Hugh Morren[12] for 51 stories between issues 714 and 765.[13][14] As of 2021, it was the last time Peem had a Beano series, although he would make appearances for the 80th anniversary in both the 2019 Beano Annual[15] and the 80th-anniversary issue.[1]
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Citations
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