The Dandy and the Beano provided it. Miniature preview editions of the two new comics were given away in school playgrounds (they would probably be worth four figures today) and immediately ...

The Dandy’s team of experienced scriptwriters and talented artists developed a humour that celebrated slapstick and derided authority figures. The following summer, a “great new fun paper” arrived – ...

The Dandy sold 2m copies in the 1950s ... comics goes back farther than the present downturn. The Beano's circulation was a "six-figure" number in 2003. The reason might have something to do ...

and attaching them to his corpulent figure. I never knew any Dandy readers. By the time I was at comics reading age, the Beano was outselling the Dandy by two to one. Dandy readers were concentrated ...

Others like The Beano and The Dandy coughed and spluttered into the new millennium ... with extreme close-ups and angled panels replacing those classic full-figure frames. Previously, comic artists ...

before making several appearances in The Beano and The Dandy. A mick-take on your usual heroes, he’s portrayed as schoolboy Eric Wimp who transforms into a muscular figure with a cape when he ...

DC Thomson, the secretive privately owned publisher of the Beano and Dandy, has been quietly building ... admitted last month to the lowest listener figures it had recorded in the four years ...

Gray also edited a comic called Plug, which exploited the charms of the "plug-ugly" Bash Street Kid, and launched a series of pocket booklets, The Beano comic libraries. He joined The Dandy in ...

Dennis’s charm lay in being “an anarchic figure” who expressed others’ feelings of ... and Viz in particular. Beano and Dandy were a major influence on the wonderfully rude and crude Viz, which even ...

We've collected a plethora of classic comic samples from The Dandy and Beano in glass vials for you to study! STEM-ing from the archives, we've plucked, poked, and prodded these scientific ...

The Dandy became the first of ... slapstick and derided authority figures. The following summer, a “great new fun paper” arrived – The Beano. Now close to publishing its 4,000th edition ...