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Let's take another trip back in time and review a single issue of an old British comic. Previously I have looked at the humour comic...| the-slipper.blogspot.com
Let's take another trip back in time and review a single issue of an old British comic. Previously I have looked at the humour comic...| the-slipper.blogspot.com
Hard to believe I've been doing this for ten straight years now!| The Slipper
Merry Christmas Slipperettes! (Yes, I KNOW!)| The Slipper
It's time for another round up of UK comics and cartoons!| The Slipper
It's that time of year again! When we find out which of our devices will automatically put the time back one hour and which won't. Oh, and Hallowe'en.| The Slipper
Happy New Year!| The Slipper
It's still the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. I'm aware you, reader, probably know that but I'm saying that for the benefit of someone who might be reading this in some future time when this is all over. Assuming that happens.| The Slipper
Let me start with an apology.| The Slipper
MERRY CHRISTMAS SLIPPERETTES!| The Slipper
Typical.| The Slipper
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And awaaaaay we go one more time into Beano history.| The Slipper
It's that time of FEAR again! Halloween!!!!!| The Slipper
Welcome back to my reviews of significant issues of The Beano from across its eighty-year history, as chosen by DC Thomson themselves.| The Slipper
And so we continue our journey through the 80-year history of The Beano, the UK's longest-running comic.| The Slipper
Let's continue our trip through the decades of The Beano's life, which began with an overview here, continued with a review of the first issue from 1938 here and the first issue to sell a million copies here.| The Slipper
Aw yeah! We are carrying on our 80th birthday celebrations for The Beano. Last week we looked at the very first issue from 1938, now we leap ahead to December 1945, the second world war is over and Beano sales hit one million copies for the first time. In fact, if the printing presses would have allowed it DC Thomson would have sold much more, but here we are.| The Slipper
And so we continue our 80th birthday celebrations for the world's longest-running weekly comic: The Beano. | The Slipper
It is the 80th birthday of two things I have known my whole life. One of them was my mother. The other was The Beano.| The Slipper
Yes! It's happening again! Some people I don't care about are going through a public ritual I dislike!| The Slipper
I've been thinking.| The Slipper
As we lunge head-first into a new year, let's have one last Christmas tradition: The Slipper's round-up of this year's festive comics.| The Slipper
'Tis the season everyone. Happy Goth Christmas!| The Slipper
It's time for something SPOOOOOOKY for all Hallow's eve. Presenting Dandy Comic Library #64 from 1985: Tricky Dicky's Hallowe'en Horrors! Which in spite of that front cover, was drawn by original strip artist John Dallas.| The Slipper
This week I paid money to watch a TV show on an IMAX screen. I am an idiot.| The Slipper
