D.C. Thomson & Co.

A friend of mine lent me a few collections of British Beano comics, I think possibly because he felt my not having read any was a gap in my education. This was the first of them, sort of. It's actually a sampler of comics from several publications, ranging mostly from the 1950s through the 1980s, with a few older ones thrown in as well, showcasing a variety of hapless, high-spirited, or bratty characters. I suspect it's intended more as a nostalgia hit for those already familiar with this show more stuff than as a first introduction, though.

I can't say I found any of it to be a giant laugh-fest -- at most, it got a few quiet snorts out of me -- but there is a little bit of quaint charm to it all. Or to a lot of it, anyway. And I was interested to discover that the British version of Dennis the Menace is very different from the one I was familiar with. Theirs is a lot more menacing-looking than ours! show less

A friend lent me a few of these compilation of British comics, so I am now able to fill in a gap in my knowledge of international culture, or something like that. The first one I read was a sampling of comics going back many decades, and, while it was amusing in places, was honestly more interesting to me as a quaint sort of curiosity than anything. This one, however, I found more enjoyable in its own right, although the individual comics vary a lot. Some were genuinely quite funny, others show more were just... kind of dumb. Most were somewhere in-between: mildly amusing or cute, but not anything that made me laugh out loud. I think I could easily imagine myself being into them as a kid the way I was into the Sunday funnies here, though, if I'd grown up on the other side of the Pond. show less

Children's annual of a weekly comic featuring popular characters like Korky The Cat and Desperate Dan. Funny in parts, but one or two jokes are arguably racist, while bullies and corporal punishment are recurring themes. For children of the 1970's perhaps, rather than of the 21st century.

Great annuals - with some wokery:(1970) Little copy cat sees a school boy with a D for Dunce on his head and ends up with one itself. Desert Island Dick has a page to himself. Over the next page, there is a Big Fat Boko story. Julius Cheeser munches his/her 'lovely grub'. When did I last see a catapult. There's Mickey the Monkey with his page and Nick Kelly special agent in his yellow bubble car. His secret is to stop bubble-gum coming into this country. Dopey Joe, the donkey injun, gets a show more job. Knife between his teeth he is given the job to clean 'Um Warpath'. Beryl the Peril is the star - and then there are so many other comic stars, including Big Chief Running Chump and there is 'the chimps' tea party at 4 o'clock', etc. show less