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The Beano thinks TV wasn't around in 1938!

(August 2003)

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MD
Mr D'Arcy
Quote:
had been reading the Beano regularly since 1994 up until recently, back when it was 35p, but there's no way I'm going to spend 65p on it nowadays. Although I sometimes pick up an issue now and again, especially this one as it was a 65th birthday spectacular.


LOL On the day I started getting the Beano it went up 1p to 5p! Sigh!

Still have the copy too!
JA
james2001 Founding member
I used to read the Beano from 1995-98, then I felt I'd gotten too old for it
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A former member
james2001 posted:
I used to read the Beano from 1995-98, then I felt I'd gotten too old for it
How old are you?
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A former member
Nick Harvey posted:
Big_Boy posted:
Who gives a flying

Why, thank you, Sir, for that uplifting and truely helpful comment.

Your contribution to this thread is greatly appreciated.
Yeah, speak for yourself Big Boy!
WH
Whataday Founding member
Digifiend posted:
It's aimed at kids, yes, but about a third of it's readership are adult, judging by the pictures of parents and even OAPs which sometimes appear in the comic. Plus bear in mind, today's OAPs are the original readers - it's 65 years old, remember!


How did you come to that conclusion? The original readers are today's OAPs. That doesn't mean that they still read it! I'd say that it is aimed a kids, and it is read by kids.
JA
james2001 Founding member
Digifiend posted:
james2001 posted:
I used to read the Beano from 1995-98, then I felt I'd gotten too old for it
How old are you?


17
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A former member
The term 'TELLY' was probably not thought of in 1938!!!!!!!!He probably new what a wireless with pictures was!
MB
Mark Boulton
I used to have boxes and boxes of (almost) every Beano comic from March 1969 to August 1989.

I used to have Beano Books 1954, 1956, 1964 and 1966-1989 - all but the first two in Mint Condition. (Curious fact: 1966 was the first to state the year as part of the title - before then the year was not displayed ANYWHERE - not even on the copyright statement, and dating them is down to researching which artwork appeared when or finding clues to the year within the stories themselves)

Curious fact No.2 - "The Bash Street Kids" strip was originally called "When the Bell Tolls".

I used to have Beano Comic Libraries 3,4, 7-200 and Dandy Comic Libraries 1-c.150

I used to have all Beano Summer Specials from 1972-1989

I used to have "Buddy" comic (from D.C. Thompson & Co) - all issues (except No.3) until it merged with Victor after Issue Number 136.

Curious fact #3: Ex-Beano strip "Billy the Cat" resurfaced in Buddy as one of its main features, with newly drawn strips.

My mum got rid of THE LOT for £5 to a "House Clearance Dealer" shortly after I moved out. Except for the Books which I sold myself for £65 when I had fallen "on hard times" - rather like The Goodies in 1973. They were my "buttercup"...

I kid you not Mad Mad Mad
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A former member
james2001 posted:
Digifiend posted:
james2001 posted:
I used to read the Beano from 1995-98, then I felt I'd gotten too old for it
How old are you?


17
That's two years younger than me - you started buying it same time I did, which is no surprise, as 8-13 is their core age group. But you're never too old! Are 10 year olds likely to read the history section at www.beanotown.com - I doubt it. DC Thomson is aware of their fanbase.
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A former member
Buddy? Never heard of that one. Apart from Beano and dandy, there's also Beezer (1958-1994), Topper (1953-1994) - those two merged in 1993, and this year is the first since then with no Beezer Summer Special (so I expect The Beezer Annual 2003 was the last Beezer Book), Nutty (which featured Bananaman, now in The Dandy), Cracker, Buzz, Plug (NOT named after the Bash Street Kid!), Sparky (debut of Puss N Boots), and Magic (1939-1940, Magic-Beano Books 1941-1945, only dropped because of paper rationing, else would still be around now).

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