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reprinting five of the rare shilling booklets together with a brief biography. The stories are set in a logical order rather than in the order they appeared in the newspaper, and start with Lobey's tale of how he came to
Arizona as a runaway baby on a pirate ship. This includes his adventures on a
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booklets and, a decade after the strip ended, he was still getting enquiries from around the world from fans desperately trying to purchase one of these increasingly rare volumes. By the mid 1970s, Glasgow artist Ranald MacColl had begun collecting material for a biography. The
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where he bartered some mucking out and grooming duties in return for the opportunity to ride the horses. After leaving school, where he excelled at art, he returned to
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Lobey Dosser - Sheriff of Calton Creek. (The name is derived from "lobby dosser", meaning a lodger who, unable to afford a bed, paid a small amount to sleep in the lobby (entryway) of a tenement flat).
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for a year. He learnt a great deal from the experience, observing the sophistication of the North
American newspaper cartoonists. On his return to Scotland he served as a gunner in the
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focused on local wartime attitudes, and plundered the rich resource of the
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