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Bound volumes of 1937 and 1938 books of Beano and Dandy idea

Loved to buy every year a bound volume of all the year of Beano and Dandy.....

price ?100.....

July 38- July 39
52 Beano comics reprinted in bound volumes....buy one every year..

Dec 37- Dec 38
52 Dandy comics

Anyone else like to buy this if it existed....

I wonder if this will happen.....It would be great to read old adventure stories in order.....see the first of characters.....the war years...

It would be a dream come true.....
I know DC Thomson own all there comics ...summer specials annuals..so it is possible...........

Nice idea, but the early issues had 28 pages. Nearly 1,500 pages per volume!

Marvel have released runs of some of their comics on CD. (I'm currently awaiting the Fantastic Four one from the USA: 500 comics on disc for ?15)

Maybe it'd be more economical for DCT to do that?

Lew

Nice idea, dont think it would work though. Even if it was done in Half year books of 700 odd pages, how many people would actually be interested in buying it?
My guess would be a couple of hundred at most, so the print costs would be huge on a small print run with so many pages.
The CD idea is a nice one, you could print off a new copy every week for yourself!

Again DCthomp is not going to scan tonnes of pages to sell a few CD.
But there may be hope, Thompson keeps most of it material on film, which degrades with age, and as far as I know they keep a library of everything they own as well. So for reference and copyright protection they may scan copies and keep them digitally, and sell CDs off their site to order.

The above paragraph is all speculation, but I think its the only way that copies of very old Thompson material is made available.

David

David McDonald wrote:
Again DCthomp is not going to scan tonnes of pages to sell a few CD.
But there may be hope, Thompson keeps most of it material on film, which degrades with age, and as far as I know they keep a library of everything they own as well. So for reference and copyright protection they may scan copies and keep them digitally, and sell CDs off their site to order.

The above paragraph is all speculation, but I think its the only way that copies of very old Thompson material is made available.

David

I may be completely wrong, but looking at the pixilation on the linework of Classics From The Comics it looks like it's using digital technology. So Thomsons might be keeping everything digitally already. Makes sense. Marvel Comics already do this.

Lew

I'm up for the cd idea....

They have a locked secret huge room with every comic.. annual... special..free gifts...They showed this on a telly program..Flog it! BBC 2 my mouth watered


a lot of Dandys got lost in a fire..it was the London museum which keeps records of everything thats published...probably due to the war...

Now that would be one room that I wouldnt mind getting into!!

IIRC there was something similar mentioned in the Action book, a Fleetway archive. Anyone recall this and is it still around?

BTW lew, I have tried to PM you but it dosent seem to work, im just wondering on the cost of post to Ireland for the brickman. My mail is Doomlord@eircom.net.

David

David McDonald wrote: BTW lew, I have tried to PM you but it dosent seem to work, im just wondering on the cost of post to Ireland for the brickman. My mail is Doomlord@eircom.net.

David

Sorry David. I didn't notice the private messages. Have replied to you now.

Lew

Last year, I sent an e-mail to DC Thomson making a few suggestions regarding the idea of reprinted collections from their archive. I had a reply from B (Bill or Bob, sorry I can't remember) Moodie who liked my ideas but said they had no plans for any of them to be followed up. However, he inform me that serious collectors, for their own, non-copyright infringing use (i.e. not to run copies of for friends or to sell) could request photocopies of pages if they knew the issue numbers. I was suprised but delighted and after getting a quote for the cost, ordered a complete reprint of 'The Crimson Ball' that ran in 'The Dandy' in the 1960's (I had been trying to collect this strip for years without much luck). It cost me about ?40 altogether, which may seem expensive to most people but it is 64 pages, copied in colour (well, lots of crimson if you know the strip) on good quality paper, ringbound with card covers. It was a good copy job (high quality) and I thought it was an excellent service. I really can't see this strip being released as a collection in the shops like 'The Steel Claw', so for me, I thought it was well worth it. So for 'one off' strips such as this, it's still a cheaper alternative than trying to find the original issues.

Wow Gary that's fantastic! The Crimson Ball was a favourite of mine too (only have the last half of the series).

Of course, Thomsons may be inundated with requests now you've mentioned this! Glad you have though.

Lew

Well Lew, I had a feeling from reading some of the posts on the forum that this was not widely known. It could be that it's not 'official' policy, so if you contact them, it's probably best to point out first that you are a serious collector and that you want the copies only for your own colection and not to share.

My guess is that as long as nobody breaks the rules, they will be happy to do the copies.

Who knows, they may even decide there is a market for some reprinted stuff after all.

Gary