He returns the cat to its owner, a Romani pensioner, who repays him by repairing his trousers with a patch from a carpet.

He has met Alfred the Great,[1] Florence Nightingale,[2] and George Stephenson,[3] as well as Robin Hood,[4] Sinbad the Sailor and William Tell.

His school uniform is a cap and a striped tie with a suit, often coloured as a black jacket with blue trousers.

Jimmy and his Magic Patch debuted in issue 222 with artwork by DC Thomson staff artist Dudley D.

Its appearance in the issues flited between linear and episodic, since Watson would eventually return to the present day and travel somewhere else.