Woah. The Dandy Annual is outselling Beano's on Amazon! Food for thought for DC Thomson?
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- 19 Dec 2021, 19:15
- Forum: Dandy
- Topic: Will The Dandy ever return?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 101609
- 16 Dec 2021, 18:44
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Beano special no. 1
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2132
Re: Beano special no. 1
I have Double Trouble listed as issue 1 and Kids Rule OK as issue 2, as does Comic Vine. But from your description, that's the wrong way around. I assume Double Trouble advertises issue 3, The Time Travellers?
- 03 Dec 2021, 03:59
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: What comics DIDN'T you buy today?
- Replies: 894
- Views: 316104
Re: What comics DIDN'T you buy today?
Last week's Beano. Just moved house, and the only shop I've found in walking distance that sells it (a One Stop) still had the previous week's (still did on Wednesday too, when another new issue was due out). I have bought the current one, but that's because I happened to need to go into town.
- 03 Dec 2021, 03:39
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Don't call me Fatty, the name's Freddy!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5402
Re: Don't call me Fatty, the name's Freddy!
It's happened again. Spotty is now called Scotty.
- 28 Nov 2021, 13:54
- Forum: Newspaper strips
- Topic: Weekly News to cease publication.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5357
Re: Weekly News to cease publication.
Two months into the first lockdown last year. I guess COVID killed it off.
- 28 Nov 2021, 13:53
- Forum: Newspaper strips
- Topic: Daily Mirror has axed Mandy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9615
Re: Daily Mirror has axed Mandy
Mirror is now down to just The Perishers and Andy Capp. And Perishers of course is a reprint.
- 28 Nov 2021, 13:47
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Beano/DC Thomson film deal
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2296
Re: Beano/DC Thomson film deal
The Amazing Mr X was originally resurrected nine years ago, in the Retro Active story in that failed digital Dandy experiment. No surprise that Dennis and Bananaman have things planned. What happened to that Minnie the Minx TV show that they were planning? The Misadventures of Minnie, or something l...
- 10 Nov 2021, 00:53
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: What are you reading on the ComicScene website?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1678
Re: What are you reading on the ComicScene website?
The old format version has, yes, due to lockdown. They've relaunched in a new format called History of Comics 11 months ago. This was the last old format issue: https://comicscene.org/2020/03/31/dan-dare-flies-again-for-70th-birthday/ Which was delayed and not initially available in shops: https://c...
- 03 Nov 2021, 22:31
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: What comics did you buy today?
- Replies: 7780
- Views: 1453816
Re: What comics did you buy today?
Just picked up the 2022 Beano, Dandy and Classic Beano/Dandy annuals at bargain prices - Beano £2.99 in Home Bargains, and the other two on 2 for £10 at WHSmith. The Classic one would normally be £14.99 on it's own! I got the exact same deals last year too.
- 02 Jun 2021, 16:28
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Don't call me Fatty, the name's Freddy!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5402
Re: Don't call me Fatty, the name's Freddy!
And only one week later, more changes - Mandi (previously used for PSA type stories) and Harsha (from Har-Har's Joke Shop) have joined Class 2B, which solves two problems - Toots is no longer the only girl, and both new characters are ethnic minorities (Indian/Pakistani).
- 23 May 2021, 19:16
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Don't call me Fatty, the name's Freddy!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5402
Don't call me Fatty, the name's Freddy!
Fatty from the Bash Street Kids has been renamed Freddy.
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/bash-stre ... ty-freddy/
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/bash-stre ... ty-freddy/
- 30 Mar 2021, 21:05
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Big Bonanza @ Kew
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2419
Re: Big Bonanza @ Kew
Outdoor stuff reopened yesterday.
- 30 Mar 2021, 21:03
- Forum: Artwork, artists and writers
- Topic: RIP Duncan Scott
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2059
RIP Duncan Scott
Former Beano and Dandy artist Duncan Scott has died.
https://downthetubes.net/?p=125849
https://downthetubes.net/?p=125849
- 27 Mar 2021, 04:03
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Beano expansion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5619
Re: Beano expansion
Wizard, not Rover. http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2008/01/bash-street-wizard.html Spotty didn't exist when the text stories were written, so he didn't get a name from there. I think he's only had his first name revealed. Plug and Erbert didn't appear in the text stories either, so Erbert doesn't ha...
- 25 Mar 2021, 21:54
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Beano expansion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5619
Re: Beano expansion
Yeah, until 2013, I think it was just Cuthbert Cringeworthy and Percival Proudfoot Plugsley, two of the Bash Street Kids who both got their names in the 1970s (Cuthbert when he debuted, Plug when he got his own comic).