A copy of the very first issue of the Beano comic, dated July 30, 1938, and costing two old pence, has just been sold for £8,525. Minus, I should mention, the bumper free gift of a Whoopee Mask.

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

'Beano' and 'Dandy' scriptwriter. In 1951, when Gray was 13, a leering child with ink-blot hair, a red-and-black striped sweater, and a very bad attitude, was born, fully formed, in The Beano.

COMIC fans could be sitting on a fortune with the rarest Beano worth up to £20,000 to die-hard collectors. To mark the 40th birthday of parody superhero Bananaman, The Sun is revealing some the ...

The current Somerset House exhibition in London, Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, revels in the joyful impudence of the 83-year-old comic magazine’s characters. A tribute to the publication’s ...

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 ...