original Beano no1comic

[judomole]

Is this listing for a Beano no 1 correct
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321779299620? ... EBIDX%3AIT
I thought it had 28 pages and no staple holes

[NP]

It's a cheap pull-out reprint, worth about £2.

[Phoenix]

It wouldn't have been possible to remove The Beano from a copy of D. C. Thomson Firsts, Danny Posner's volume of facsimile reprints, without inflicting serious damage to the spine edge because as it was the first comic bound in there is no left-hand border visible, and also the three left-hand panels of Big Eggo have lost about a quarter of an inch. The copy for sale is one of the loose issues that were also available in 1978 in the Vintage Magazine Shop to those enthusiasts who only wanted the odd one or two rather than all eight. Unlike the ones in the bound volume, the loose issues were stapled. Today, in Fine condition, they would be worth about a fiver. In my opinion, the one on eBay isn't even worth their basic 99p.

[big bad bri]

the guy has no kind of feed back either as buyer or seller someone should report it as fake

[Digifiend]

25 pages? That must be a typo. An odd number of pages is impossible on printed publications, only digital stuff can have an odd number.

[Lew Stringer]

the guy has no kind of feed back either as buyer or seller someone should report it as fake

Looks like someone did. It's now been removed.

[Kashgar]

This was most definitely a copy of the first Beano given away with the Sunday Post a few years ago. It only had 24 pages instead of the originals 28 in order to remove the two page 'Cracker Jack' adventure strip in which the western heros horse had an unfortunate name to modern sensibilities. And, in order to excise two pages they had to also remove another two so that the page count would still be divisible by 4 and make the issue easy to staple together with 6, 4pg sheets.

[judomole]

This was most definitely a copy of the first Beano given away with the Sunday Post a few years ago. It only had 24 pages instead of the originals 28 in order to remove the two page 'Cracker Jack' adventure strip in which the western heros horse had an unfortunate name to modern sensibilities. And, in order to excise two pages they had to also remove another two so that the page count would still be divisible by 4 and make the issue easy to staple together with 6, 4pg sheets.

In my History of the Beano book where they reproduce the original no1comic
The horse's name is nugget (page 24 box 5) and (page 25 box 9) have they used clever editing on the horse's name

[Digifiend]

Yes, it's edited - the version on beano.com (though it won't be there much longer as the website is about to relaunch) calls the horse Nigger (wow, I didn't get censored there).
http://www.beano.com/retro-beano/1930's

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

Benny Hills' horse in his 1971 number one hit 'Ernie' was called Trigger.



---and he PULLED the fastest milk-cart in the West!

[AndyB]

At least one person reported it, and that was me. Kind of obvious, really, as you all said.

I remember around the 70th birthday I asked about the facsimile in the souvenir magazine, and I was told that it had a lot to do with the inconvenience and cost of adding another sheet in the special format - the Beano 70th magazine and Dandy final issue both changing paper for the first edition facsimile. It of course helps in making sure that it can be distinguished from the real thing, so I imagine it's a bit of both.

[stevezodiac]

I picked up a first issue of the Magnet Library for a fiver at an ephemera fair last year. I was sure it was a facsimile but it looked just like the original with tan paper so I figured a fiver was an ok price to pay. That could easily be sold on ebay as an original.