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Sunday 29 August 2010

Profile - Gloomy Glad


Glad wasn't so much bipolar as north polar.  Usually accompanied by her own black rain cloud (a snow cloud in cold weather), Glad was one of those people for whom not only is the glass half empty, it's cracked and has something nasty floating in it.


Cheeky showed his caring side with Glad, always trying to cheer her up when she told her tales of woe, only to find that his attempt to lift her spirits plunged her further into despair.


To prove that Glad's life wasn't one of unremitting despondency, Cheeky's writer allowed us to witness a few occasions (four, to be precise*) when Glad cracked a smile.


Glad's cousin, Dismal Daisy, made a single appearance, in the cinema interval of the comic dated 28 October 1978.

* Boxing Day in the 31 December 1977 issue, Saturday in the 10 June 1978 issue, Sunday evening in the 16 September 1978 issue and Wednesday in the 05 May 1979 issue. An apparently beaming Glad was seen on Saturday in the 13 January 1979 comic, but it turned out she was wearing a mask.


Character
Total Issues
First Appearance
Final Appearance
Gloomy Glad10612-Nov-197702-Feb-1980



Gloomy Glad - Number of appearances by Element
Element
Number of Appearances
Saturday27
Wednesday19
Monday16
Sunday16
Tuesday13
Thursday12
Friday11
Sunday evening5
Boxing Day2
Interval2
Ash Wednesday1
Cheeky's Week1
Easter Monday1
Saturday - April Fool's Day1
The Burpo Special1



Gloomy Glad - Number of appearances by Page
Page
Number of Appearances
216
1213
3111
1510
98
268
257
307
196
85
105
44
53
73
133
183
213
233
202
222
11
61
241
281
291
321

1 comment:

  1. I don’t suppose Cheeky ever said, “I’m feeling Glad all over”; that’d have been crossing a line, even for our joke-fixated hero!

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