Carol Day

‘Carol Day’ was a newspaper comic strip by David Wright (1912-67) which ran from 1956-1967. I found this frame in a newspaper of 1966.

Carol was a fashion model under the care of an uncle who is also her guardian, and who is improbably named Marcus Axel. Uncle Marcus is a collector of African art - you couldn’t make this up, except David Wright actually did. Carol has a long time fiancé called Michael Fletcher who is a photographer. But Fletcher is ditched when the flighty Carol gets engaged to Joe Wilson, another photographer. Maybe Carol is simply bewitched by camera gear - that would be understandable: after all, this is the age of the Nikon F. Let’s assume Joe Wilson has a better gadget bag than Michael Fletcher. Carol’s brother Mark Lovell is a jazz musician - hang on, why does he have a different name? Then there is Arnold Tracy, an elderly lecher who is after Carol, and Adam Boone, a reclusive sculptor and friend of Carol who lives in the same village as Uncle Marcus. But wait: this is post-war England where the class system is still going strong, so there is a butler called Baines (butlers never have forenames) and he is a confidante of Carol (I bet he fancies her too).
Anyway, this frame, from a strip numbered 2981, is from a story named ‘Mystery Man’ in which Carol et al unravel the mystery of a skeleton discovered in a seaside cave. Good job the grown-ups got there before the Famous Five happened along with their bulging picnic hamper and insufferable snobbishness.

Photographed with a 55mm Micro-Nikkor f/3.5 AI lens on a Nikon D2Xs.