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The Buster & Jet in the picture is

7th October 1972

Well done, steelclaw. Thanks for identifying the issue

On Foyles War (ITV 3 just now) a wartime Beano was shown for quite a while..it had Big Eggo delivering a bomb egg to Hitler by parachute..also Pansy Potter wording could be seen inside comic..

Presumably it's a facsimile, but kudos to the props dept for using a proper comic instead of a fake cover.

Did anyone see the Morcambe & Wise clip that Michael Grade showed a couple of nights ago where Eric was seen reading a copy of The Dandy in bed? The weird thing was that, while the comic seemed genuine, the regular 'Dandy' logo on the cover had been replaced with a completely different one - even though the name remained the same!

- Phil Rushton

Yes its already been mentioned on page 6 of this topic - with scans too.

Having a day off today.

Ooops - I missed that!

Thanks Steve!

- Phil R.

Peter Gray wrote:On Foyles War (ITV 3 just now) a wartime Beano was shown for quite a while..it had Big Eggo delivering a bomb egg to Hitler by parachute..also Pansy Potter wording could be seen inside comic..

Here's a screencap of it, it's numbered issue 156, from July 19th 1941

It featured quite a bit as the lady the driver for Foyle was reading the Big Eggo story to the boy..she did the jokey accents as well..she was trying to get the boy to talk again after he had suffered a trauma..

Thanks for the scan...so it was a helicoptor strapped to Eggo..
I wonder what Biffo the Bear would have been like in World War 2 if he was around?

Two years after a copy of Cheeky Weekly was featured in George and Mildred http://cheekyweekly.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... ky_18.html, young Tristram's taste in reading matter had obviously changed, as in the G&M episode 'A Driving Ambition' first broadcast on 13 November 1979, he is seen holding a copy of Warlord. I couldn't get a good shot of the whole cover as it's being moved about and held in shadow.

Peter Gray wrote:I wonder what Biffo the Bear would have been like in World War 2 if he was around?

Probably similar to Korky's wartime storylines. From what I've seen, many of Eggo's wartime scripts don't rely on the fact he's a bird at all (that particular one is an exception), and could easily apply to a cat or bear instead.

I've seen at least two instances of comics in Public information films, one was in a short public information film about fire safety where a boy leaves his Beano near the heater and it sets the whole room into flames, the second was in a longer public information film called "Safe as houses" which is a hybrid of cartoons and live-action, where I spotted a comic that was opened on a 12½p Buytonic Boy page. It was released in 1983 so I'm guessing it's a Whizzer and Chips. I'll try and find links soon.

That Beano is in mint condition so it was obvioulsy provided by one of those companies that creates props for period dramas. Maybe a cleaned up computer scan of an original copy. You sometimes see characters reading pristine copies of Victorian issues of the Times as well. Anyone know more about these props companies?

In the 1987 "Only Fools and Horses" xmas special "The Frog's Legacy", Rodney can be seen reading the Dandy towards the end. I think it's open at a "Corporal Clott" story,

I'm not so sure - the pages aren't full colour and Clott was always in colour. I think it might be that black and white strip about a Lion. Can't remember the title.