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Bah! 007sites deleted my stuff. I've moved the comic libraries page to Webs. Got rid of the ads anyway, so it's an improvement.

List updated.

Looks like I'm going to be busy. That Beano Project site had something other than illegal scans for once - an XLS file, listing a lot of the comic libraries, fun-sizes, and Beano Superstars.

I've just updated the Beano libraries list, filled a lot of gaps. I'll do Dandy, the Fun-Sizes and Superstars in the next few days.

talking od Fun Sizes and that its now closed..got me thinking again of comic libraries before fun size..
Comic Libraries the first 100 before I had a spell of being grown yup..it didn't last long..
I always liked John Geerings take on Jonah I thought he did a great job..his style worked well..




Heres the first one I read...appropriately read it on Bournmouth beach and loved it..collected them after..

Must try and get some more after the 100 mark..

Today I got a healthy stack of Beano Comic Libraies from the eighties (1982-89), and can identify some of the artists that aren't identified on the list:

No. 16: Barrie appleby
No. 17: Barrie Applby until page 14, Tom Williams afterwards.
No. 28: Barrie Appleby
No. 42: John Aldrich (?)
No. 47: Barry Glennard
No. 55: Barry Glennard
No. 63: Tom Williams
No. 65: Keith Reynolds
No. 70: John Geering
No. 72: Tom Williams
No. 75: Jim Petrie
No. 80: Ron Spencer
No. 82: Tom Williams
No. 85: John Geering
No. 99: Tom Williams
No. 100: Bob Nixon
No. 102: John Geering
No. 103: Keith Reynolds
No. 104: Tom Williams
No. 110: Tom Williams
No. 112: John Geering
No. 114: John Geering
No. 119: Keith Reynolds
No. 121: Dave Gudgeon
No. 130: John Geering
No. 136: Tom Williams
No. 138: Jerry Swaffield
No. 143: John Geering
No. 157: Tom Williams
No. 163: Tom Williams
No. 210: Barry Glennard
No. 282 is called "Look out, Dennis is about" and is drawn by Tom Williams.
No. 301: Trevor Metcalfe
No. 310: John Geering

(The ones from after the 200 mark I already had, but never thought to idetify the artists and/or name the issues)

Excellent, thanks for that!

EDIT: #75 was already identified.

The first update in over five months is now up!

as i won over130 beano libraries the other week i am now trawling the net trying to compile a list so i know what to get of the beano & dandy comic libraries,here is a few from ebay not on your list digifiend.
Beano
209 - (Character)the 3 bears - (title) christmas cheer
237- lord snooty -the king and I
265 - roger the dodger - the worlds greatest dodgers
267 - Dennis the menace - holiday haunts
286 - ball boy - world tour

Dandy

136 - desperate dan - dandy lion
138 - baby crockett - star turn
147 - Young desperate dan - huckleberry fun
187 - desperate dan - vs. the metal munchers
195 - desperate dan- museum mayhem
229 - Bully beef & chips - camp fire tales
244 - bananaman - quick on the draw
251 - bananaman - vs. rhubarb man
269 - Dandy fun pals - all change
272 - barney's barmy army - indian file
330- jonah - captain clueless

the only 4 beano superstars i own are
Beano Superstars
64 - roger the dodger - The D Files
66 - minnie the minx - minx on the moon
82 - dennis the menace - what my dad does
92 - Dennis the menace - pirate pandemonium

Thanks! Expect an update tomorrow.

Aha i have a load of these and I have looked at your list and some of mine are not on your list I can't remember which ones are on there and not so i'll write 'em all down. They're ain't much.

Beano Comic Libraries:
164 Dennis the Menace - Is it a Record?
233 Little Plum in Pipes of Peace
268 Minnie the Minx in Circus Girl

Fun Size Beanos (most of which i got free in issues of the Beano)
145 Dennis the Menace in Farm alarm, Ivy the Terrible in Getting the Bird, The Bash Street Kids in whose flu?
146 The Numskulls in hurry Curry, Ball boy in things that go bump on the pitch, Little Plum in Desert Disaster
171 Dennis the Menace in Roman Rumpus, Ivy the terrible in ferreting around,
247 The Bash Steet Kids Daze gone by, Lets have a big hand for Ivy the Terrible
271 Roger the Dodger in Doggy Dodges, Calamity James in Lucky Horseshoe

ads in the above comics revealed info about following fun size beanos (no reveal in 171):
147 Dennis the Menace in Magic Moments, Calamaity James in win or bust!
148 Minnie the Minx in Treasure Hunter, roger the dodger in dodgopoly
248 Dennis the Menace Jumps for joy, Calamity James is Under the weather
272 Dennis the Menace Hair raising story and Calamity James in Horror in the Home!

Also I have some Beano Superstars, by the way do you know when these ended cos after no. 120 the place I got 'em from no longer stocked them and i looked elsewhere but couldnt find them? they also had adverts for the next issues in them so ill write them here as well.
115 Dennis the Menace in Shape of things to come
116 Dennis the Menace in Car Crazy (never actually got this one, ad for it in 115)
119 Dennis the Menace in Wild West Pest
120 Dennis the Menace in Panto time again
121 Dennis the Menace in Stone Age Story (not sure if 121 was ever released but there was an ad for it in 120)

I don't know when it ended, but if 121 never came out, that's the same fate that happened more recently to Classics from the Comics and the Fun-Size comics (unfortunately, I didn't know those Fun-Sizes were the last ones until after the next ones should've come out, so I didn't buy them as they were reprints of material I likely already have).

Anyway, I'll update the list tomorrow, thanks.

I was looking on Ebay at some Beano Superstars and as there were only a handful there, i made a note of them so you can add them to your list (this is copied from the pictures, so they're definitly the correct issues)

05 - Dennis the Menace - T.V. Terrors!
15 - Minnie the Minx - Min Overboard
31 - Dennis the Menace - The Sercret of Their Success
32 - Roger the Dodger - Headache Horrors!
33 - Dennis the Menace - The Case that Wouldn't Open
35 - Dennis the Menace - Animal House
38 - Minnie the Minx - Ski Whizz
43 - Dennis the Menace - The Menace Who Fell to Earth
49 - Dennis the Menace - Allen
59 - Dennis the Menace - Dennis and Denise
63 - Dennis the Menace - Wanted
70 - Minnie the Minx - Minx and the Mechanics
78 - Minnie the Minx - Minnie's Animal Hospital
98 - Dennis the Menace - The Day the Town went Mad
101 - Dennis the Menace - Gnasher goes to Hollywood
114 - Dennis the Menace - Comic Chaos

Nice one. Looks like today's update will be bigger than I planned.

More gaps to fill from your Beano Comic Library list

231 - Jonah - All at Sea
232 - Roger the Dodger - Man-O-War!
238 - Bash Street Kids - School Daze!
332 - Dennis the Menace - Balloonery