[1] The central character, Mike Kidd, is sitting around one day when out of the blue a large crate, containing a bike, lands in his garden.
The comic began as an ongoing comedy adventure where a group of villains with weird and wonderful devices came up with ever more desperate and zany plans to recover the bike.
During its run, Mike Kidd's adventures were used by the Raleigh Bicycle Company to promote a competition for their Vektar bike, which was given as a prize to the reader who solved Skid Kidd's villain problem in a special two-part episode.
[citation needed] McKie made it clear from the start that he wanted the character to look like "key" scenes from an animation storyboard rather than a conventional comic page.
[citation needed] The character and the backgrounds were drawn flat, with a rigid, inflexible nib, in order that the eye of the reader should not be distracted by thick and thin lines.