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The Set – Calton Creek, Arizona.

At first glance, Calton Creek is no different from a score of frontier towns that sprung up around the New Mexico and Arizona border during the late 19th century.

Careful inspection however, would reveal that its inhabitants were made up exclusively of émigrés from Glasgow, Scotland.

Bud Neill's classic comic strip was first published in 1949 in Glasgow's Evening Times. It charts the exploits of Lobey Dosser, the sheriff of Calton Creek, from his journey from Scotland to Arizona, to his clashes with his arch-enemy, Rank Bajin.

There are five main sections to this site:

This site contains examples of strips from five Lobey Dosser adventures. Most pages carry links to strips, but if you prefer a complete list can be accessed here.
Strip of Lobey Dosser as a child of six weeks old running off to sea.Strip where Lobey Dosser is elected as Calton Creek's sheriff with Rank Bajin the resident villain and the hitch-hiker always somewhere. Strip of Lobey Dosser in negotiations with Chief Toffee Teeth who is never to be trusted.