Sammy Shrink
    
                             
    A modern Tom Thumb, Sammy Shrink was a tiny lad
    just 6 inches high. And being tiny meant that he would
    get into lots of scrapes and encounters with the bigger
    badder world at large. Poor Sammy was often subjected
    to merciless bullying by the bigger lads around town -
    like Bully Bates and Bully Bloggs - and he frequently
    found himself trapped inside post boxes and postbags,
    which must have driven the Royal Mail crazy.

    Needless to say whatever scrape he ended up in,
    Sammy used his own tiny methods of reprisal and
    his smallness always won the day...

    Sammy started life in the pages of  Knockout, an
    Odhams comic swallowed by Fleetway in the mid-1960's.
    When Fleetway relaunched the comic in 1971, Sammy
    returned within its pages. But alas, the new Knockout
    only lasted two years before it was incorporated into
    Whizzer & Chips.

    Our Sammy was one of the lucky ones. He leapt into
    Whizzer & Chips and became a star Whiz-Kid. And he
    stayed there right up to the demise of the title.

    Sammy's condition was puzzling. There was the suggestion
    his smallness was hereditary - his Grandfather having been
    rather small too. Then again, later in the run of Whizzer
    & Chips it was suggested that Sammy might be able to
    shrink at willl - much like Lenny in Jackpot's Little and
    Large Lenny...?

    What is indisputable, however, is that Sammy was a
    tall toon star, and he was drawn almost throughout his
    long run by the masterful Terry Bave...