Welcome to the 'TOPPER UNIVERSE' web site (formerly the 'BUZZ comic and CRACKER comic' web site).
The aim of the site is to cover those comics that were related directly or indirectly with 'The Topper':-

The Topper (1953-1990) and the two comics with which it merged : Buzz (1973-75) and Sparky (1965-77),
The Beezer (1956-1990) and the two comics with which it merged : Cracker (1975-76) and Plug (1977-79), and
The Beezer and Topper comic (1990-1993)

All were published by DC Thomson & Co.Ltd and copyright of all images is with them.

Many thanks to Ray Moore for inspiration and artist information.

Any comments gratefully received (if maybe not speedily acknowledged).
Send to postmanknox at btconnect dot com. Sorry, but no £1 postal order!

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First time here?
The pages can be accessed via the menu above. Hovering over the comic's name will drop down a sub-menu for pages that are available for that comic.
A Brief History of the Site
The site started life as the 'Buzz Comic' web site and went live on 6th April 2009. It had been built using Frontpage 2000 Express (!) while I was learning HTML. The 'Cracker' section was hand-coded in HTML and was added on 13th February 2010. The 'Buzz' section was rewritten in HTML sometime afterward. On 4th November 2013 it became 'The Topper Universe' with the addition of a Plug section.
Links

Comics UK
Peter Gray's comics blog
The comics archive
Two Headed Boy's Blog
Lew Stringer's British comics blog   Lew Stringer's Web Site  Lew Stringer's Art Blog
If you have a link to my site and I don't have one to yours, please let me know
( ... and if your link is to the old Buzz and Cracker site, could you change it? Thanks).
Site Updates
Latest Updates :-

13-Oct-2014
Stats covering ALL 'Topper' comic strips (i.e. issues nos. 1 to 1963).

Stats covering ALL 'Beezer' comic strips (i.e. issues nos. 1 to 1314).

For list of previous updates see Site Updates Page