70 Years of Beano/Dandy: v.22: Winter Games (Annual) |
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Pages: 132 (Hardcover) ISBN: 1845353811 Pub: D C Thomson Pub date: 2009-09-02 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 73814 |
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Reader Reviews:
Winter fun for everyone (0/0 people found this helpful)
The comic gang from D.C. Thomson have fun and cause chaos during wintertime in this special book scanning seventy years of Dandy and Beano mayhem with snowballs,pranks,fighting and laughs. Minnie The Minx,Dennis the Menace,Desperate Dan and all the rest will entertain you through Christmas and beyond. Plus there are unpublished strips here as well.
Why change the format ? (0/0 people found this helpful)
This year`s book has it`s usual excellent contents which I am sure I will enjoy, but why was the presentation format changed ?
For twenty-one years the series has shown it`s own high class act as a hardback with a dust-cover but not this year, why change a winning class act now ?
The look of this year`s book I am sorry to say has become like any-other D.C Thomson annual.
For this reason alone I have marked the annual with only three stars.
The series waved a flag for the past with a cover and dust-cover that matched the high content of every past `Golden Age Classic Comics of Beano and Dandy`.
Now the series is no longer a Mrs Bucket it has just become a plastic-bucket because it has now become just another annual..
Please return to the past class act format Thomson for the 2011 copy..
A hardback with dust cover is required please for this `Golden Age`.
Seasonal nostalgia (2/2 people found this helpful)
A delightful book to read on a foul cold day like today. It stirs many memories though I am now of an age when less attention is paid to the early years of the comics. The later characters are quite amusing. Before purchasing there is a need for a contents description. I think what was provided was adequate.
Let us have more of such publications.
An annual delight. (12/12 people found this helpful)
Once again the Beano/Dandy people have done us nostalgia Beano and Dandy freaks proud. A good collection of winter themed strips and stories.
The usual mix of older and gasp was I really going to say younger strips?? When these are from the 70s!!!!! There almost 40 years old yet I still remember the style and formant like it was yesterday.
The later (ha! 1970's)strips never seem to have aged. My 12 year old son reads them with relish and never a comment on "Dad why are they so old fashioned?" There you have it the Beano and Dandy are like Dad's Army timeless classics.
A niggle in that there are a few 'rogue' strips from the Beezer and Topper in there too. Have the publishers thought of doing a Topper/ Beezer one off of nostalgia edition to test the water. A minor point but to put Topper and Beezer strips in it seems to me to be a case of flying under false colours?? Oh well.
May I also at this point comment on the magnificent cover of the book? Truly a beautiful cover and the best I've seen in the series. Black and white with a hint of red. A cover to admire. Absolutely outstanding just like the series of books. A def Christmas/birthday/easter/ pressie!
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