There was Corporal Clot in the Beano (or was it the Dandy?), and Colonel Blink -- The short-sighted gink in the Beezer. (And who can remember the words to the Ballad of Baby Crocket?)

Some of the jingles only worked in Scotland (D C Thompsonm is a Scottish publisher), like Pansy Potter -- The strongman's dotter.

Kids today - they don't know what they're missing! We had so much in the fifties that kids don't have today -- polio, diphtheria, rickets ...