Jane is a comic strip created and drawn by Norman Pett exclusively for the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror from 5 December 1932 to 10 October 1959.

[5] Originally entitled Jane's Journal, Or the Diary of a Bright Young Thing,[6] the salacious comic strip featured the misadventures of the title ingenue.

Until 1943, Jane rarely stripped beyond her undergarments, but then she made a fully nude appearance when getting out of a bath and clumsily falling into the middle of a crowd of British soldiers.

A 1987 movie, Jane and the Lost City, starring Kirsten Hughes in the title role, was directed by Terry Marcel.

[17] Despite the early evening scheduling slot, the show was decidedly risqué with Jane continuously stripping down to her underwear, including stockings and suspenders.

The show was briefly revived during 1985 as a three-part sequence shown over a single morning on Breakfast Television but without Glynis Barber in the main role.

In World War II, one of the two 380 mm BL 15-inch Mk I naval guns comprising Wanstone Battery, which was installed at Dover and was capable of firing across the English Channel into German-occupied France, was named Jane after the comic strip character.