First Issue: 18th March 1961Last Issue: 22nd January 1972Copyright: DC Thomson Bimbo, not some wench that you met in the local night club, but a nursery comic from the early 1960s. Nursery comics such as ‘Bimbo’ and ‘Little Star’ were aimed at younger children and included some watered down versions of characters from their elder…
First Issue: 21st January 1956 Last Issue: 21st August 1993 Copyright: DC Thomson The broadsheet sized first issue of ‘The Beezer’ first appeared 21st January 1956 and introduced the carrot topped ‘Ginger’ (Dudley Watkins) to the comic world. Other debutants in the first issue were ‘The Voyage Of The Bushwhacker ‘, ‘Mick On The Moon’,…
First Issue: 15th February 2007 Last Issue: June 2013 Copyright: DC Thomson On 15th February 2007, Daleks invaded Bash Street. Whether or not Daleks or even Cybermen would be a match for the Bash Street Kids remained to be seen. In conjunction with Comic relief, DC Thomson released a new comic called Beanomax. Beanomax was…
First Issue: 30th July 1938Last Issue: N/ACopyright: DC Thomson Inspired by the success of The Dandy (4th December 1937), The Beano Comic, as it was originally known, appeared on July 30th 1938. The Beano Comic’s first issue had seven full text stories, six conventional stories whereby the text appeared under the strip and the rest…
First Issue: 8th March 1975 Last Issue: 23rd January 1988 Copyright: IPC Magazines Six months prior to the arrival of ‘Battle Picture Weekly’, DC Thomson had launched their own war themed comic called ‘Warlord’. Perhaps the most enduring legacy of Warlord was not that it raised the standard for violence and violent language in comics…
First Issue: 17th September 1921Last Issue: 14th January 1961Copyright: DC Thomson Before comics, there were Story Papers. Story papers were long text stories with the occasional illustration. In the space of three years, DC Thomson launched five story papers. Adventure was the first of the five papers. The story paper market was dominated at the…
First Issue: 14th February 1976Last Issue: 12th November 1977Copyright: IPC Magazines
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