Cannonball Kid was a comic strip appearing in Nutty comic and drawn by Rob Lee from 1980 to 1985. The strip featured a character who was obsessed with football in a similar fashion to the Beano character Ball Boy. When Nutty was merged with The Dandy in 1985, the strip was discontinued. Cannonball Kid was however revived in The Dandy under the new name of Owen Goal in around 2000. Nutty was a British comic book that ran for 292 issues from 16 February 1980 to 14 September 1985, when it merged with The Dandy. ... Robert Martin Lee (born February 1, 1966 in West Ham, London) was an English football player. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Beano can refer to: The Beano, a British childrens comic. ... Ball Boy is a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano and also the name of the main character. ... The Dandy is a British childrens comic published by D. C. Thomson & Co. ... Owen Goal started in the Dandy as reprinted versions of Cannonball Kid from Nutty drawn by Rob Lee, recoloured, given a new masthead of a football shirt with OWEN GOAL on it, and with new speech balloons. ...