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Thanks for the cover photo, it looks very familiar - I think I’ve seen it recently in a bargain book shop. I’ll have a good look the next time I’m in Belfast.
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HUGH wrote:
Thanks for the cover photo, it looks very familiar - I think I’ve seen it recently in a bargain book shop. I’ll have a good look the next time I’m in Belfast.
They sometimes have them stocked with the colouring books. Well, it's black and white so if the young assistants have never read a comic....
HUGH wrote:
Thanks for the cover photo, it looks very familiar - I think I’ve seen it recently in a bargain book shop. I’ll have a good look the next time I’m in Belfast.
They sometimes have them stocked with the colouring books. Well, it's black and white so if the young assistants have never read a comic....
Lew
Lew,
Actually that’s where I thought I spotted them.
I notice Amazon have a lot of books with Dennis on the cover, can anyone tell me if any of these books are general DC Thomson omnibuses or just Dennis the Menace strips?
Exactly. Judging by the cover, I'd never have expected it to be a Classics style omnibus. Most of the others with similar covers aren't even comic strips but are things like colouring or puzzle books. Dennis & Gnasher & Friends Cartoon Capers is one book which you shouldn't judge by it's cover.
Not that they are anything like the same size but there are four Oor Wullie paperbacks available at the moment which reprint most of the contents of the Oor Wullie Summer Specials published between 1980-1994 should one have missed them first time around.
Thanks for the cover scan Im pretty sure I saw that in a shop very recently (hope shops still there think it was a ex stock type shop) and thought it was a colouring book as well - A wee trip to Glasgow is in order lol
If you like any of Dennis the Menace, Desperate Dan, The Bash Street Kids, Jonah, Colonel Blink, Beryl the Peril, Puss and Boots, L Cars or Spoofer McGraw, then this book is an essential purchase. If not, it's worth buying anyway!
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I was nearly tempted to buy this, I saw it in one of those cheap book shops, I think it was £3.99, could have been £4.99 still better then £9.99 RRP.
Nice pressie for a kid but sadly I've met adults who think a comic is put together that way! "Do you send in the characters for them to put into a story?" was one question I was once asked.
Lew Stringer wrote:I've met adults who think a comic is put together that way! "Do you send in the characters for them to put into a story?" was one question I was once asked.
I was once TOLD that I traced the characters off a style sheet and then emailled them to be pasted together by proper artists. Never saw the point of that.
Lew Stringer wrote:I've met adults who think a comic is put together that way! "Do you send in the characters for them to put into a story?" was one question I was once asked.
I was once TOLD that I traced the characters off a style sheet and then emailled them to be pasted together by proper artists. Never saw the point of that.
Proper artists? Luxury! The ones I spoke to thought you fed character drawings into "a machine" and a completed comic popped out!
(They also assumed comics were "only local", like provincial newspapers. )
Local like provincial newspapers? The fools! The truth is comics are international! The Beano for instance can be bought in the UK, Canada, and New Zealand at least. Marvel/DC stuff gets reprinted in many different markets. The big name stuff aren't even restricted to one country nowadays, let alone one town!
I do like these Bargain bookshops and pound stores, I bought the Beano colouring book too for the nephews. And an immaculate condition recent old annual. (not my sort of thing though)
Shame some pricing of comics is so high, as it must effect sales (eg recent Buster comic at £4)
Muffy wrote:I do like these Bargain bookshops and pound stores, I bought the Beano colouring book too for the nephews. And an immaculate condition recent old annual. (not my sort of thing though)
Shame some pricing of comics is so high, as it must effect sales (eg recent Buster comic at £4)
Bargain bookshops are full of remaindered items, stock bought at massive discounts, or books that have been knocked out on the cheap. They don't make a lot of money for publishers.
If people want annuals & comics to continue they have to buy them full price (or near to full price). I thought £3.99 for the Egmont specials was reasonable for today's prices considering they're limited edition exclusives. Too bad they're more exclusive than we anticipated.
Buying annuals at full price is nigh impossible, virtually every retailer had them either reduced or on multibuy offers as soon as they were released! So I hope that the shop takes the hit and not the publisher.
The ones I spoke to thought you fed character drawings into "a machine" and a completed comic popped out! 
Local like provincial newspapers? The fools! The truth is comics are international! The Beano for instance can be bought in the UK, Canada, and New Zealand at least. Marvel/DC stuff gets reprinted in many different markets. The big name stuff aren't even restricted to one country nowadays, let alone one town! 
