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Who used to buy Beano and Dandy comics here ? |
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I used to buy that one, also the Dennis the Menace annual. Is that still around?
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Used to read Beano and Dandy in the '60's, along with DC Comics, such as Superman, etc.
Mom would come back with a sackful from local jumble sales, and I usually siezed the lot, as my brother was dyslexic and couldn't read. A memorable character for me, from either the Beano or Dandy, was "Major Tom", I think he was an occasional, rather than in every issue, strip. He had a remote control army, navy and airforce from a remote control that he wore on his left wrist. Another was "Brassneck" - a sort of brass pal/robot with AI who was fun to be with. The American DC superhero comic characters were my favourites, and I always thought of the similar Marvel characters as second rate compared to them. I recall thinking of them as being a late attempt to cash in on the DC superhero idea. Mom is long since retired, but she now helps with jumble sales for the Mills Trust in Cornwall, occasionally. I was there a week or so ago, and she had some fantastic cloth doll clowns etc., for the next one. |
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Yeah, but it's now a tie-in to last year's CBBC cartoon, so instead of reprinting old material from a decade ago, it's entirely new material.
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Used to read Beano and Dandy in the '60's, along with DC Comics, such as Superman, etc.
Mom would come back with a sackful from local jumble sales, and I usually siezed the lot, as my brother was dyslexic and couldn't read. A memorable character for me, from either the Beano or Dandy, was "Major Tom", I think he was an occasional, rather than in every issue, strip. He had a remote control army, navy and airforce from a remote control that he wore on his left wrist. Another was "Brassneck" - a sort of brass pal/robot with AI who was fun to be with. |
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yeuk! Saw the American film a few years ago. Nothng like the real thing.
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Was a big beano fan, used to buy it weekly.
The gifts used to be much better than the plastic crap they stick to it now. My favourite was a Beano Banger, which was one of those paper bangers you could make via folding cardboard, except this one was made of cardboard and brown paper. It was incredibly loud! My sister then became a fan about the time I stopped buying it, she's given up now they've redesigned Dennis though, and I don't blame her. The new cartoons aren't a patch on the old ones either. |
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