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from ''

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in '' The Beano'', the comic was based on the character Plug who was a distinctively ugly member of the Bash Street Kids. His dog (Pug) from ''

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'', and a new character called ''Chunkee the Monkey'' (Plug's pet monkey) accompanied him.

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mainly drew the title character's strip. The comic also had its own fan club, the ''Plug Sports and Social Club''. The comic was inspired in part by '' Mad''. The ''Plug'' comic was never a big hit, possibly because, at 9

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, it was too expensive compared to other D. C. Thomson comics at the time, which were priced at around 5 pence. According to the 2008 book ''The History of the Beano'', for a while there were rumours of a "curse of ''Plug''", fuelled by the fact that a number of celebrities featured in ''Mad'' magazine-style caricatures on the comic's cover died soon after, most notably

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. However, the strip's use of gravure painting is still used in comics today.

List of ''Plug'' comic strips

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''Plug'' (1977-1979)
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List of ''Plug'' comic strips

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