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You’re like Uncle Fred Bear.” So said my sister Janet the other day. It took a few seconds to register. Then I remembered. Back in the early-mid 1960s, we each had a weekly comic. My first one was called Teddy Bear at the age of six and I subsequently graduated to Valiant until about 1973 when asked if I could have Railway Modeller instead. Which, almost 50 years on, I still read.

Anyway, Uncle Fred Bear was a character in Teddy Bear. The key characters were