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Beano or Dandy?

Chizz
Chizz Posts: 28,334
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I mean, obviously Beano is the right answer.  

Right?
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  • cafcdog
    cafcdog Posts: 65
    Beano

  • LeaburnForEngland
    LeaburnForEngland Posts: 2,291
    Yes. 

    A better question is Whizzer and Chips or Buster?
  • LeaburnForEngland
    LeaburnForEngland Posts: 2,291
    (Whizzer and Chips)
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,274
    Beano.  Still have all my comics. About 30+ years old now.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    Beano
  • 9goalswentpastperry
    9goalswentpastperry Posts: 1,109
    LeaburnForEngland said:
    Yes. 

    A better question is Whizzer and Chips or Buster?
    Buster
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    edited June 2020
    Bit of beano related trivia - when americans talk about dennis the menace, they're talking about a completely different dennis the menace that was actually created in the exact same month as the british one. Both creators had no idea about the other's creation at the time.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    Beano just shades it ..... but always used to buy both.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,739
    Beano. Rarely read The Dandy
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,739
    This was my  favourite. Anybody else remember it ? 

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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    Beano every day. 
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    I got Beano, younger brother got Dandy. Preferred Beano. Then got "the big comic" (which I think came after whizzer and chips) and then the all time classic, Viz.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,847
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    Beano every day. 
    I thought it was weekly?
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    Then there was the Beezer and Topper, as well.

    I used to buy both of them from time to time, or do swapsies with my mates.

    Beryl the Peril, haha. And the Numbskulls ...... I'm sure they really do live inside my head!


  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    Whizzer and chips and Roy of the Rovers

    every Saturday as a kid. 
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    Beano, Dandy, Whizzer and Chips, Tiger, Roy of the Rovers, Beezer, Buster, Cor!. That was the weekend pretty much covered. Eagle was in there as well, but never really my thing.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    Beano up to the age of about 8, then after a gap of about 6 years I returned to comics to read the mighty Viz.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    SporadicAddick said:
    Beano, Dandy, Whizzer and Chips, Tiger, Roy of the Rovers, Beezer, Buster, Cor!. That was the weekend pretty much covered. Eagle was in there as well, but never really my thing.
    Victor was a must read for me from about 10 years old. And remember TV 21 with Lady Penelope & Thunderbirds, Stingray, Fireball XL5 and My Favourite Martian?

    My sisters bought Bimbo and Sparky, before upgrading to Bunty and Judy, with the cut out clothes on the back page.

    Being a kid in the 1960s, eh?




  • cafcdog
    cafcdog Posts: 65

  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Beano,though some people used to call me a Dandy, well I think that is what they called me.
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  • robroy
    robroy Posts: 4,426
    Beano
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
    Beano, Victor, Scorcher, NME
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    Beano. I remember Eric Clapton reading one on a John Mayall album.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,266
    Beano, Bash Street Kids, Dennis and Gnasher, Numbskulls were favourites, still get the Annual every year for Christmas as a weird little tradition
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,334
    dickplumb said:
    Beano. I remember Eric Clapton reading one on a John Mayall album.

  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    My older brother and I started with Dandy and Beano, he then moved on to The Eagle before Playboy and as he moved on I had the choice he left behind. This was in the 50s
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,783
    Cracking thread this.

    In my view, (disregarding the themed or gender targeted comics like Victor, 2000AD, Roy of the Rovers, Bunty or Judy), there were 3 categories of comic -
    1 - The cheaper, more childish ones like Beano and Dandy (Published by DC Thomson,)
    2 - The bigger, More expensive with better quality jokes and darker humour like Whizzer and Chips, Buster, Krazy and Whoopee! (Published by Odhams, later IPC)
    3 - The midrange price, yet somehow lower quality ones where it seemed like writers and cartoonists did their apprenticeships, or maybe they just used as a place to sell their crappier strips, like Topper and Beezer.(Also DC Thomson)

    I remember suddenly hitting a point where I realised I was only interested in the 2nd category because I thought the others were either too babyish or just shit.

    Incidentally, there was an artist called Leo Baxendale who was highly influential in comic illustrations. (He was responsible for such creations as the Bash Street Kids, Minnie the Minx, Grimly Feendish and, my favourite, Sweeney Toddler). 
    He was the only illustrator at the time that gave the reader free little extra jokes, such as peripheral characters doing weird stuff in the background, dogs and cats showing comic reactions, and nice little touches like smelly socks lying abandoned in the road. All of these techniques are ten a penny now and it’s pretty much all down to him.
    He was also quite outspoken about how horrible DC Thomson were to work for - he walked out on them to work for Odham’s and helped set up new comics.

    Anyway, in answer to the question:
    Beano or Dandy? Beano.
    But Buster, Krazy, Whizzer and Chips et al were FAR superior.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    Oggy Red said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    Beano, Dandy, Whizzer and Chips, Tiger, Roy of the Rovers, Beezer, Buster, Cor!. That was the weekend pretty much covered. Eagle was in there as well, but never really my thing.
    Victor was a must read for me from about 10 years old. And remember TV 21 with Lady Penelope & Thunderbirds, Stingray, Fireball XL5 and My Favourite Martian?

    My sisters bought Bimbo and Sparky, before upgrading to Bunty and Judy, with the cut out clothes on the back page.

    Being a kid in the 1960s, eh?




    I was 80's! 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    Beano.

    However, I used to get TV Century 21 and my brother the one with The Trigan Empire in it - wonderful Don Lawrence artwork https://www.donlawrenceshop.com/en_GB/c-4192106/artwork/
  • Oliver Street
    Oliver Street Posts: 5,132
    Beano but always had the Beezer Annual for Christmas.

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