The Byrds of Paradise Isle was a story appearing regularly in
Buster comic from 1 July 1978 to 29 March 1980. It was drawn in a 'realistic'
comic
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style by Andrew Wilson.
Premise
The Byrd family, Tom, and Ethel, and their two boys, Richard 'Dickie' and Basil, and Grannie, live in
Birmingham, and are facing
eviction. On the day of their eviction, they receive a letter saying that Tom's long-lost cousin has died in
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
, and has left them an
Island in the
South Pacific
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to live on. They fly to Australia, then take a
banana boat to the island, to discover it's not the paradise they expected.
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British comic strips