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66 pages...from 1959-1987 what would you like to see...

1) Dennis the menace

2) Bash Street kids (61-69) after 69 they are in the Bash Street annuals
3) Bash Street kids (61-69)

4)Mr Bubbles Sparky
5)Mr Bubbles Sparky

6) Sammy Scribble Buzz
7) Bertie Buncle Dandy

8) Bananaman Nutty
9) Bananaman Nutty

10) Black Bob
11) Black Bob

12) The Three Bears
13) Spoofer Sparky

14) The Great flood of London from beginning
15) The Great flood of London Beano

16) Samuel Creeps Nutty
17) Tweet William Nutty

18) The Iron Eater Beezer
19) The Iron Eater

20) I Spy continues
21) I Spy Sparky

22) Ginger
23) Mickey the monkey

24) Fiends Beans Cracker
25) Simple Spyman Cracker

26) G for Giant from beginning
27) G for Giant from beginning Beano

28) Danny's Tranny Topper
29) Harum Scarem Buzz

30) Bash Street (1959-61)
31) Banana Bunch (1959-61)

32) Minnie the minx
33) Minnie the minx

34) The Umbrrella men Dandy
35) The Umbrrella men

36) The Umbrrella men
37) Baby C Beezer

38) The Sparky people
39) The Moonsters Sparky

40) Thick head... Dandy
41) Ali Ha Ha Dandy

42) The Red Wrecker Beezer
43) The Red Wrecker

44) The Mc Tickles Beano
45) Mickey the mouth Dandy

46) Billy Whizz
47) Calamity James

48) Desperate Dan 1959
49) The Numskulls/Dicky Burd Beezer

50) The Jellymen Beezer
51) The Jellymen

52) Puss and Boots
53) Puss and Boots Sparky

54) The Badd Lads Beezer
55) Wotsit Topper

56) Billy the cat
57) Billy the cat Beano

58) Dennis the Menace
59) Desperate Dan 1959

60) Winker Watson in order
61) Winker Watson Dandy

62) Pup parade
63) Korky the cat

64) Starship lollypop Nutty
65) Starship lollypop Nutty

66) Biffo



.........why not have a go........quite tricky to get the balance right......
But more adventure stories please....in order
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3. Roger the Dodger (1980s late)
5. Willie's Whizzer Broom
7. Dennis the Menace (1950s)
8. Puss and Boots
10. Ali's Baba
11. Spoofer McGraw
12. Black Bob
14. Bash Street Kids (1960s)
16. Gnasher's Tale
17. Beryl the Peril (1950s)
18. Bananaman (Nutty front - centre page)
21. Schooldaze
24. Desperate Dan (1980s)
26. Ginger
27. The Numskulls (1980s-1990s)
29. Korky the Cat (1970s/1990s)
30. Buzzies and Fuzzies x 2
31. Desert Island Dick x 2
32. My Home Town
33. BLUBBA AND THE BEAR ;) ;)
34. Minnie the Minx (1960s-90s)
36. Korky the Cat
37. Puss and Boots
38. Barney Bulldog
39. L Cars
41. Black Sapper
42. Billy Whizz
43. Doodlebug
44. Bash Street Kids and Dennis the Menace (was this one page or 2)
46. The Bar-O-Boys
47. Rasher
48. Ball Boy
49. Desperate Dan (1950s)

I'll continue again later.
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I wonder what will replace the Black Sapper hopefully another adventure story...it had some nice headers...liked the circus poster ripped...and the 2 headed Sapper looking at an empty field then a circus tent.

cough...Jellymen..Cough!


on a side note the Topper had on the cover info of the castles in the air
1961 Oct 28th No.456 a thriller always make me wonder what the strip is like these little front cover ads..

Nice reading great flood and Jonah..
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Peter Gray wrote:I wonder what will replace the Black Sapper hopefully another adventure story...

cough...Jellymen..Cough!
It'd be interesting to see The Jellymen. I don't think I ever read that. Although my personal choices would be either The Umbrella Men by Charlie Grigg, or The Stinging Swarm by Jack Glass, both from the 1960s Dandy.

It'd be a good balance to have three regular adventure strips per issue, I think. (Great Flood, Jellymen, Stinging Swarm.) A 64 page comic could support that without putting off the readers who only like the funnies, in my opinion.

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What was The Umbrella Men about?

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I'll check out 'The Umbrella Men' but from memory it was about a gang of masked crooks dressed as city gents, complete with bowler hats, pin-stripe pants and umbrellas who could use said umbrellas to not only release knock-out gas from their metal points but also have them double as devices they could use to fly in a malevolent Mary Poppins kind of way.

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Hmm, wasn't a jewellry heist recently pulled off because the crooks where dressed in sharp suits with umbrellas and drove up in a really flash (stolen) car, so got waved straight in?

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Kashgar wrote:I'll check out 'The Umbrella Men' but from memory it was about a gang of masked crooks dressed as city gents, complete with bowler hats, pin-stripe pants and umbrellas who could use said umbrellas to not only release knock-out gas from their metal points but also have them double as devices they could use to fly in a malevolent Mary Poppins kind of way.


Hmmm - sounds a bit like something from The Avengers. (British TV series not American Marvel superhero comic.)

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Checked out the details of 'The Umbrella Men'. It ran in the Dandy from Dec 1965 to Aug 1966 and the hero of the piece was a young lad named Toby Judd. It also featured in the Dandy Summer Special for 1966 and the Dandy Book for 1967.

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on a side note the Topper had on the cover info of the castles in the air
1961 Oct 28th No.456 a thriller always make me wonder what the strip is like these little front cover ads..

Nice reading great flood and Jonah..[/quote]

Hope this will satisfy your curiousity Peter. 'Castles in the Air' featured in Topper Nos 456-469 and was about a family who owned and ran a one-plane air service in northern Canada. It was drawn by H R Platt and also turned up in the 1964 Topper Book.

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Kashgar wrote:I'll check out 'The Umbrella Men' but from memory it was about a gang of masked crooks dressed as city gents, complete with bowler hats, pin-stripe pants and umbrellas who could use said umbrellas to not only release knock-out gas from their metal points but also have them double as devices they could use to fly in a malevolent Mary Poppins kind of way.
That's right. Thomsons could always be relied on to provide memorable imagery for their adventure strips in The Dandy. I'll be blogging about this strip and other Dandy adventure strips soon on my Blimey! blog, when I have time to write the article.

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Hope this will satisfy your curiousity Peter. 'Castles in the Air' featured in Topper Nos 456-469 and was about a family who owned and ran a one-plane air service in northern Canada. It was drawn by H R Platt and also turned up in the 1964 Topper Book.
The Castles is there name...surname...

I'm sure the Castles popped up in another strip...though could be wrong..

Anyway thanks for the info Kashgar....I saw the plane on the cover advert..

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Classics in the new issue seems to be censoring the slipper in Dennis the Menace .the bottom panel has been altered...what a shame...

I like the idea of more background information.longer stories and I wonder what the feature would be like.....a whole issue dedicated to Jonah...Ken Reid..a birthday issue of The Beezer...a character..

If the Classics editor is reading this less Calamity Kate...Nobby.. yawn and more Jellymen..Les Barton's serial I-Spy....early 60's...love to also see The Moonsters by Bill Ritchie

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I was worried when I read "Important News Inside", it's a slogan that usually portended something a bit more ominous!

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I was the same, ANDY.....I fully expected to see a 'this is the final issue ' notice inside!---happily, it still continues.....I've actually wrote to them a couple of times asking for requests, to no avail...maybe I'll e-mail some suggestions in.

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