lets take a look at the beano and prices over the years
so lets look at the 70s a very cheap 2p
[img:224:176]http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc12 ... sprice.jpg[/img] now lets go 20 years on to the 90s and a not as cheap 28p
[img:288:176]http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc12 ... ice001.jpg[/img] and now lets move on to today and a not very cheap 99p
[img:192:176]http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc12 ... ice002.jpg[/img]
the beano and prices
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the beano and prices
when priced in Mars Bars, the Beano has gone up in price like all comics. I think that even 20 years ago, it was only one Mars Bar.
In saying that, the Beano has the same number of pages as Buster, usually less reprint (although fewer comic strip pages now), and is still cheaper than the last issue of Buster in late 1999, which at ?1.10 was give or take 3 Mars Bars.
That's one thing that doesn't get mentioned very often when considering how much the Beano has gone up in price - in exchange we gained a total of twelve pages since the 1980s (16 since the 70s), full colour throughout (as opposed to the basic spot colouring used by Fleetway to maintain the fiction of full colour), and historically a lot less reliance on reprint - the current cycle of reprints only really started after Bob Nixon died, and reprints of even David Parkin's work are a very new thing.
In saying that, the Beano has the same number of pages as Buster, usually less reprint (although fewer comic strip pages now), and is still cheaper than the last issue of Buster in late 1999, which at ?1.10 was give or take 3 Mars Bars.
That's one thing that doesn't get mentioned very often when considering how much the Beano has gone up in price - in exchange we gained a total of twelve pages since the 1980s (16 since the 70s), full colour throughout (as opposed to the basic spot colouring used by Fleetway to maintain the fiction of full colour), and historically a lot less reliance on reprint - the current cycle of reprints only really started after Bob Nixon died, and reprints of even David Parkin's work are a very new thing.