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I bought this comic for the first time in years today. I know times change and all that but i nearly cried when i saw how Dennis the mennace and Gnasher had changed due to the computer age. The Numskulls are nothing how i remember them. Billy Whizz is almost unrecognisable. And as for Roger the Dodger * sobs*.Thankgoodness for the Bash street kids, nothing much has changed there Phew!
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Gluben
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Funny you should mention this Miss H. I was just looking at the history of The Beano and The Dandy the other day, the latter having changed beyond recognition.

I bought both of them up until 2000, and I still have a box full of them, as well as a few annuals. Great stuff, and yes it has gone downhill now. I think the old style comics just aren't entertaining children anymore, so they have to update, which is a real shame.
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If I'm right in thinking the Dandy only exists now as a monthly comic. Also there is now a 'Beano Max' out which I believe is a monthly edition. I've got some editiions from the late 90s to early 00s in the attic still and quite a few past annuals. I stopped collecting the new annuals (and comics) when it went computerised as I didn't like the changes, I much prefer the older annuals. When I brought my first comic it was only 45p, when I stopped I think it was 65p, if I recall the comic is now 80 something pence.
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I'm showing my age here, but, i think the last Beano comic i bought was sometime in the mid- late 80's and that was for my cousin and the last Beano annual i have is dated 1979.
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I remember when the Beano was 21p. The oldest issue I have is from 1984, a year after I was born. Picked it up from a car boot.
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Beano Max is apparantly a version of the Beano for older children.
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Brad
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I gave up reading The Beano in 1988 when it became more like a glossy magazine full of adverts disguised as cartoons. Munch Bunch indeed. :P
It was printed on ordinary newspaper before that (complete with ragged edges to the paper!) 21p indeed. Tssss. Youngsters. Was 16p in my day when I were a lad. ;)
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I was nearly killed by massive flying windows outside DC Thompson the other week. True story
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Massive flying windows? Do explain how that happened.
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I was at an audition yesterday with a man from DC Thompson.

Worra lorra shit he talked.
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