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I totally agree, I can't think of any D.C.T. cartoonist who's been so versatile and had such a wide range of styles. In the early 1970s, as well as the Baxendale-originated Bash Street Kids and the more realistic, rather Paddy Brennan-esque Billy the Cat, he was also drawing Davy Law's Dennis the Me...

Good point about the Phoenix, Tin Can - I didn't mention it because I'm not really that familiar with its contents (I have some idea of what it contains, but not an in-depth knowledge) and I didn't want to blindly lump it in with the Beano and Dandy. In truth, its format is probably more similar to ...

I'm not defending the policy, just explaining it. The problem here is that people are so quick to condemn The Dandy and Beano but if one looks at the bigger picture many other titles are doing exactly the same thing. Why are Dandy and Beano always singled out? I think the Beano and Dandy aren't sin...

A point of interest in this week's issue is the return of Gnasher's Bit(e), drawn Barrie Appleby. After its return last week, Super School is absent, as is, somewhat more surprisingly, The Germs. This week's Bash Street Kids strip looks like a reprint to me - for one thing, the title was drawn for t...

I think Retro Beano's still running, but it's usually one of the first pages to go in issues where there are more adverts, including Wenlock and Mandeville. I think it's good that Beryl is back in the Dandy, as she is an iconic character, but I'm somewhat surprised at the age of the reprints being u...

I was shocked to hear about Fabrice Muamba. I really hope he comes through, my thoughts and prayers are with him at this time. I didn't watch the game but from what I've read both sets of supporters were very respectful and understanding of the seriousness of the situation, which they should be appl...

It would be interesting to learn whether Thomsons' considered doing this upcoming history of The Dandy in 2007 to celebrate its 70th birthday, and then quietly shelved the idea, or whether it never even occurred to them, perhaps until someone put forward the idea of the history of The Beano for its...

I certainly hope the post-2010 Dandy is included. The History of the Beano was bang up to date, to the point of inclduing the 70th anniversary issue of the comic, so I'm expecting that the Dandy book will be similar in this respect. I'm very pleased to hear that this book is being released - it was ...

I couldn't agree more about a 1990s Beano and Dandy book, swirly. Many of the comics' current readers were not even born then, and I think it is old enough now to be considered classic. In a strange way I probably know less about the early-to-mid 1990s Beano than I do about any other era since the 1...

I agree that it's a great book, but it's not 500 pages in length - I think there's 382 pages in total (yes, I was sad enough to count them ).

I do remember some of Mike Pearse's long stories first-hand, but I never saw any of the full-length ones in the comic itself - rather annoyingly, I have the very next issue after Dennis's 50th birthday special (from a pile of 1999-2001 Beanos I once picked up at a fair). I have seen most of the ones...

Yes, up until about the 1980s strips were sometimes reprinted if the artist wasn't available - I seem to recall reading that in the 1970s Bash Street Kids stories were reprinted occasionally during the summer if David Sutherland was on holiday or too busy drawing Dennis. I'm not sure why this stoppe...

Some interesting comments there, Wizzkid97. I couldn't agree more about Roger, Bob's version is my favourite as well and it inspired me to start drawing Beano characters as a kid - I was fortunate enough to read the comic prior to his death in 2002 and the first Beano character I ever drew was Roger...

More bad news for Arsenal after their heavy Champions League defeat to A.C. Milan - they were knocked out of the FA Cup yesterday after a 2-0 defeat to Sunderland. Unless they can pull off a remarkable comeback against Milan in the Champions League in the second leg, that's probably yet another trop...

A highlight was Dennis, Minnie, Danny and Roger rapping at the end and listing pretty much every single Beano strip there's ever been, many of which would have been lost on the target audience (I don't suppose many of the kids remember Hairy Dan or Kat and Kanary). I suppose it was for the Beano ge...