POINT OF ORDER: All three of these come from the Knockout Annual 1985, which, as it turns out, was the very last Knockout annual and hence almost certainly the last time the strip appeared.
With this in mind, it is quite possible this is a deliberate pisstake of the strip's concept.
Christopher Wickham
I'm not saying "The Haunted Wood" was quite a formulaic comic strip, but... I can't think of a way to finish this sentence.