The Beano 75 years issue whats inside...its guessing time..
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Re: The Beano 75 years issue whats inside...its guessing tim
They ought to do what they used to do with 'blister pack' action figures, put holes in the top of the bag and have them on 'prongs' sticking out of the walls.
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Re: The Beano 75 years issue whats inside...its guessing tim
Or just dump the toys altogether - comics should be able to sell themselves without plastic rubbish stuck to them!
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Re: The Beano 75 years issue whats inside...its guessing tim
They should be, but today's generation expects a toy/comic combo. Besides, I doubt many 8 year olds would regard a water pistol as 'rubbish'. I loved those free cardboard guns in comics when I was a kid so I'd have been dead excited to have the big plastic water pistol that comes with the Dennis comic.TwoHeadedBoy wrote:Or just dump the toys altogether - comics should be able to sell themselves without plastic rubbish stuck to them!
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Re: The Beano 75 years issue whats inside...its guessing tim
As a one-time paper boy I can't help wondering what today's paper boys and girls think about having a sack full of water pistols, etc. Would it even fit through the letterbox?
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Re: The Beano 75 years issue whats inside...its guessing tim
It should. Anyway a sack full of lightweight cover mounts would be a relief compared to the heavy Sunday papers they deliver. That said, I wonder if many kids have comics delivered these days unless they've subscribed?philcom55 wrote:As a one-time paper boy I can't help wondering what today's paper boys and girls think about having a sack full of water pistols, etc. Would it even fit through the letterbox?
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Re: The Beano 75 years issue whats inside...its guessing tim
You'll like this, then. From Family Star 83 dated 21 March 1936:Lew Stringer wrote:They should be, but today's generation expects a toy/comic combo. Besides, I doubt many 8 year olds would regard a water pistol as 'rubbish'. I loved those free cardboard guns in comics when I was a kid so I'd have been dead excited to have the big plastic water pistol that comes with the Dennis comic.TwoHeadedBoy wrote:Or just dump the toys altogether - comics should be able to sell themselves without plastic rubbish stuck to them!
Re: The Beano 75 years issue whats inside...its guessing tim
...How strange that Wizard gave away a free Dandy gun a whole year before Dandy itself had been thought of!
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Re: The Beano 75 years issue whats inside...its guessing tim
Yes i'd noticed DC Thomson described gifts as Dandy in the two or three years before the comic appeared.
Re: The Beano 75 years issue whats inside...its guessing tim
As you can see, it was a great Wizard shooter in The Wizard's own advert for it to its readers in its March 14th 1936 issue.
Re: The Beano 75 years issue whats inside...its guessing tim
I'm sure some items will have been described as Beezer as well.
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Re: The Beano 75 years issue whats inside...its guessing tim
I remember a character saying "Beezer Wheeze" (good idea) but it may have been used by Denis Gifford in more recent times - ie well after the Beezer was established. It might have been in the Reveille Morecambe and Wise strip (wot he wrote).