I remember when I was 9 years old in junior school back in '82, we made a school magazine. All the kids donated work to it and one boy brought in some caricatures he said he'd drawn. The teacher and all my classmates were amazed at his apparent talent.. except me. I was livid! The caricatures were of The Two Ronnies, Henry Cooper, Bruce Forsyth and Jimmy Tarbuck and I knew damn well he'd traced them from that year's Beano Book!
That’s a great collection. I like Beano books from 80’s and before. My collection goes back to the 60’s (I was a 70’s child) Your enthusiasm reminds me of myself but younger! Very good video!!
Amazing video. I started collecting the beano in the late 90s but when some family friends heard I liked the beano they brought me a giant box of beano annuals from there attic from the 70s and 80s, it was wild to me seeing the difference in character art
Hello, At 12.35 that is Jimmy Tarbuck a comedian in the 1960's/70's and said to be the fifth BEATLE. You story telling is BRILLIANT. You have another sub mate. Cheers Dave.
Wow! What an amazing collection! I forgot how much I used to love those annuals. I also used to like the summer specials they did as well. They were smaller and thicker, almost like little magazines, and contained plenty of stories. It was always great having 6 weeks off school to watch cable telly and play outside, and the summer specials always marked that time. I would often go down to the newsagents on my own to buy the comic / summer special and also sometimes an ice lolly as a treat if I had a bit of extra pocket money saved. The raspberry mivvi was my absolute favourite but the strawberry ones were nice too, as were mint Feasts! One thing I really liked about the Beano was how topical it was, and how it would incorporate any current trends, and blurred the lines between the real world and the fictional Beanotown world. When I look back at those times I think how much simpler life was in the 80s / 90s, how magical everything was, the clothes, the music, the freedom from wokeism and being wrapped in cotton wool. No mobiles, only a 10p in case I needed to make a call from a 'phone box! I bet, even as an adult if I were to see your collection I would be stuck there for hours and hours. I feel sad that the Beano has gone woke, and that's one trend I am not sure it needed to follow.
Excellent follow up to your previous Beano video Luke! Always providing an insightful and entertaining look into the world of my favourite comic. Keep up the good work! 🙂
I love annuals and have a number of 80s annuals like Dandy, Beano and Jackpot, but also a few of my Dad’s old annuals like Dr Kildare and Eagle. The Beano holds a particularly important place in my heart! I’m loving your vids ❤
When I was much younger I lived in England and I was introduced to Beano and have fond memories of it. A copy of the 1979 Beano annual landed on my doorstop here in Australia this morning and I look forwards to revisiting a part of my childhood tonight.
I got Beano comic from Early 1968 till 1973. Iv still got about 30 copies from 1968 till 1970. Including xmas issues 1968 and 1969. Iv got many Annuals from 1964 till 69.
Stoner comics are sometimes really funny, personally I always found my brother's collection of international times and rolling stone magazine thought-provoking and a bit of-colour and questionable. Of course it was a notorious miscarriage of justice of the day, but what I found offensive wasnt so much that it was an assault on innocence. I was more interested in art history, animal art and expressionist modernism, surrealism and. I also have Henry Moore's Prison Skechbook. Does anybody know what an original of Egon Schiel's Prison Sketchbook would fetch now??? Talk about turning tradition on its head. I always hated the idea of Clownworld because I always found clowns creepy. Any other portraitists animal or human??? Isn't hindsight truly a wonderful thing??? Who would think that we could have wall-to-wall pornograhy at press of a button. It just goes to show that enough is as good as a feast. And on that profound note, I'll leave you!!!
General Jumbo did appear in the weekly comics - there were phases during which he filled the slot usually taken by Billy the Cat and Katie. Sometimes the strip took a more nautical flavour and he was called Admiral Jumbo.
They did all these in a Scotland. The staff had to wear suits and bowler hats like something out of ené magritte!!! A highly eccentric swingeing London outfit, especially. Very uptight and closely-buttoned adjunct and archetypal symbol of the times. It was the best of all the comics, for my money. I have a bunch of posters from beano, but they are just repros that i use for decoration. Anybody else collect wind-up gramophones and old decorative mains or battery. I suffer quite badly from mental health difficulties though this condition (cyclothymia) is very disruptive. It also makes people hoard and want to do things that are extremely bad for youer. But some days I have a scream. I always thought that the funniest people I ever met laugh at themselves as others. As Frankie Howerd also used to say(when he wasn't saying,"ooh...er.? My schoolfriends all laughed there heads off when by brother bought me a Beano album. Somebody amogst his mates swapped him the classic Beano album that we both loved, My brother, now sadly deceased (but that's for another time).
I love Beano, Beezer, Topper and Dandy annuals, I've got reviews of Beano, Beezer and Topper Annuals on my channel but I'm hoping to do some Dandy and other reviews as well when I get them.
I'm aware of MAD magazine, mostly through it being referenced so often in pop culture but I've never read it, we don't get it over here in England. We do have Viz though, which I think is a bit similar to MAD
Really great review, that's a lot of books! *whispers* my favourite annual was the Dandy 1987, I read it and stared at the art in that book for hours. Favourite Beano character has to be Roger the Dodger.
Can you please tell me which year was the Calamity James with the dinosaurs shown in the video? I had this as a kid and would like to get it again. But I don’t know which annual it was.
I have most of the annuals from the 80s, 1983-1988, I have a few 90s annuals, a singular comic on Star Wars Day '96, and tons of issues from '04-'05. *WARNING, DANDY MENTIONED BELOW* My oldest annual in my collection is a 1979 Dandy, in storage with my 1983 annual.
Hey I liked the Dandy plenty too, it's just that Christmas I always got Beano and my brother the Dandy. There's definitely a subtle difference in the writing and comedy between the two, Dandy is or was a lot more heavy with puns. They were both great in their own right
@@downfromtheattic I also seem to remember another one titled Rory of the Eagles or something like that, but it's only a very vague memory so I might be mis-remembering, do you have any recollection of it?
I won't do a full episode on it sorry, it's only one strip in one comic so it doesn't really warrant a full episode on it. I can have a look through my comics and find out which date and number it is for you, you can get it and read it then?
Hello Michael, honestly I’m not sure I’ve ever come across a fake Beano nor did I ever think they existed so it’s not something I can really shed light on I’m afraid. What’s made you think one of your annuals is a fake? I know that for certain anniversary comics like the 70th or possibly 80th, they put a print on the front of it so people couldn’t pass them off as the original 1930s comic.
@@downfromtheattic Hi and thank you for taking the time to reply. I notice that there seems to be facsimiles of most of the beano annuals but I did notice that these have the year printed on the spine, and reading comments online, people have mentioned that the pages are glued together instead of using string, which would have made facsimile copies uneconomically to make. I am looking to buy some earlier Beano books, so great to get confirmation that there are no fakes out there apart from the facsimiles Thank you again for all the help
Michael Coughlan not a problem! The newer annuals have the date on the spine, these are the thinner ones with the new binding technique. The older ones, no date on the spines. Think most of the 60s and 70s beanos has blue spines, 80s and 90s red.
I have a few Dandys, Beezers and Whizzer and Chips but nowhere near as many as I do Beano. I used to get Beano, my brother The Dandy. A lot of his Dandys went missing, only have maybe a dozen or so left :/
Hey Matt, I have a couple of them, same with whizzer and chips but I never really collected them. That being said, what few I have I really poured over as a kid. Some great characters started there like the Numbskulls.
The Children's BBC one? Heck yeah! I remember Blue Peter hyping up Dennis being brought to the small screen. It was a fun show, and Dennis actually menaced :D
@@downfromtheattic yeah. It was amazing. I really liked Richard Pierce's role as Dennis in the series. Too bad no other Beano characters made cameo appearances. The 2009 TV series was also pretty good, but the 2017 TV series (the CGI one) is awful. I don't know why Dennis is the only Beano character to get his own show. It was announced in 2018 that a live action Minnie the Minx show was in development, but since 2018, nothing else has been said about it.
@@joshproductions07 There was the Beano video stars which was fun to see some of the comic strips made into cartoons. Never saw Calamity James unfortunately ;) I think the bash street kids would be a good candidate for a tv show, nice variety of characters there, lot to play with and make stories with I think. And agreed, I've seen the new show...the less said the better
Modern Beanos don’t have the magic they used to have. They’re more of a Japanese anime now and they’ve lost their British tradition. I think the last good Beano book was 2010 as it still had its classic format.
