DID YOU EVER WIN £1 BY DARING DAVY?

I don't suppose I ever thought much about it as a

kid, but I do now.  You see, knowing that comics are

produced at least 8 weeks ahead of seeing print, I now

realise that the first 8 DARE-A-DAY DAVY strips in

POW! couldn't have been from genuine readers.

Also, several of the stories were reused a few years

later in VALIANT comic, in a Davy-type strip called

CHALLENGE CHARLIE, so it's a certainty that the

named 'readers' were fictitious and never received £5

(that's inflation for you) for 'their' contributions.

Were the publishers just trying to save a few quid

by inventing readers' suggestions, or did they simply

never receive enough to begin with?  I once won a £1 in

1973 for a contribution to SHIVER & SHAKE, so not

all invitations for reader-participation were fake, but

it causes me to wonder just how many were.

So, dear reader, did you ever win £1 for submit-

ting an idea to Pow!'s Dare-A-Day Davy, or do you

know of anyone who did?  If so, leave a comment and

dispel the mystery.  And if you'd like to make a com-

parison between Davy and Charlie, you can do so

    over on KAZOOP blog - just click the name.   

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