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The Beano

Monday, December 29, 2014 12:42

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One of my Christmas presents was a copy of the Beano for April 23rd 1955 – price 2^D. It’s in good condition apart from some browning of the paper. As for the content it’s much as I remember from almost sixty years ago. Biffo the Bear, Minnie the Minx, the Bash St Kids, Lord Snooty are all there plus a few I don’t remember.

Private Eye are currently lampooning Cameron and his upper crust cronies via a take-off of Lord Snooty. It works rather well.

Two characters I don’t remember are Red Rory of the eagles and Longlegs the desert wild boy.

Both are more like the adventure stories I moved on to after the Beano. They seem out of place somehow, not quite the read it and toss it aside content I expected.

Although I always retained a soft spot for the Beano, as I recall it there was nothing hugely amusing about the exploits of Minnie the Minx or Roger the Dodger. I never laughed out loud, or if I did it wasn’t often enough to stick in my mind.

They were just easily digested micro-stories with a tinge of improbable humour fitted into that narrow period between learning to read and wanting something more substantial than a comic.

No doubt that was what Red Rory and Longlegs aimed to cater for but I think they may have disappeared not too long after this issue because I certainly don’t remember them.

Happy days? Yes they were.

I wonder what happened to Longlegs?

Source: http://akhaart.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-beano.html

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