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Weird children’s comic from 1967

Dreamt up by Gerry Anderson’’s Century 21 studio

Titled ‘Candy’, it featured two life-sized mannequin children & their parents - two humanoid pandas. It didn’t last long before being discontinued.

Set in a quintessential English village, the model children and the two pandas live above a toy shop in a brightly-colored apartment. With a small striped Mini car parked in the garage and outdoor space to play, the family indulge in wholesome activities; riding their bikes and picking berries. But what marked their world out as an anomaly in the Century 21 comic strip universe was that the title employed photography in place of illustrations.