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Last year out of the blue DC Thomson brought us Best of Buster, Topper, Hotspur and Bunty annuals.

Unfortunately I have been informed by DCT that there are no plans for the same this year.

Lets hope Egmont do something.

wilsia wrote:Last year out of the blue DC Thomson brought us Best of Buster, Topper, Hotspur and Bunty annuals.

Best of Buster from DC Thomson??

Oops, sorry meant the Best Of Beezer

I never saw these items as I was overseas last year------was this reprinted annual stuff, weekly comics stuff----or both?

Hi Rab. These consisted of reprints from annuals.

i missed them as well as not one sainsburys i tried had any of them

Thanks, kash!

A mix of vintage weekly strips and newly-commissioned material for the annuals can work surprizingly well, as seen in the 1980 SPARKY annual, which has very early 70s Puss an Boots, alongside new, late-70s [probably 1978] artwork drawn especially for the annual, presented at larger scale.


The 50s/60s Topper/ Beezer books were an utter joy, with their lavish production values---these still look great today, even compared with modern digital colouring techniques.

big bad bri wrote:i missed them as well as not one sainsburys i tried had any of them

Yeah, same here, Sainsbury's Local didn't have them. All the Sainsbury's stores I can easily get to are Locals. I wasn't that bothered after finding out about the content though - I more than likely already have the Beezer and Topper material.

the best of Hotspur annual is still available here
https://www.dcthomsonshop.co.uk/the-bes ... nnual.html
also a reprint of Hotspur 1966 annual for only £6 here
https://www.dcthomsonshop.co.uk/hotspur ... sahot.html
all the others are sold out

judomole wrote:all the others are sold out

Try eBay. I was too late last year to get the Best Of Bunty Annual, the only one of the four that I wanted, but I bought a mint copy at a very reasonable price on eBay sometime in January.

I reviewed some of them last year:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... -more.html

Pity there won't be a `best of Sparky` annual. Thomson's don't rate it highly and there were only 14 of them- shame!

If you are still looking for the annuals, there are digital copies available on comixology, under Retro Classics for £2.99

https://www.comixology.co.uk/DC-Thomson ... 50U2xpZGVy

If you prefer hard copies there are books available on ebay, they seem to be selling for £7.50 + postage, there is a hotspur one for £2.00 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Best-of-t ... 2a54c71d55

I've got a "Best of Hotspur" that I'm willing to sell. PM me if interested.