The Beano

[gary r]

£2 bloody 50p!!!!!! Just bought it for my 8yr old as he is off school sick.I must be getting old !comics were a cheap treat when i was a kid

 

[Joe24]

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I used to get The Dandy, and im sure that was under £1 when i was getting it, 40 something p? That wasnt that long ago either, im only 17

 

[rich p]

When I was a kid it was 2 groats.

£2.50 I'm shocked.

 

[ColinJ]

I think it was 3d (1.25p) when I bought it as a child in the mid-1960s! It was 3p in 1974

 

[Globalti]

I actually work with Plug from Bash Street Kids. He got a job at our place when he grew up.

 

[Cubist]

£2.50, and it's not remotely funny, not like it used to be.

 

[zimzum42]

Viz is £3, much batter value, I'd get him started on that early....

Buster was always better anyway!

 

[Keith Oates]

I didn't know the Beano was still going, been away too long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[beanzontoast]

£2.50 seems a lot of money for a comic. Does the new Beano have more pages than the ones I read in the early 60's? We have about 30 Beano annuals in the loft - some mine, some my sons, some we've acquired from other people. At one time, he was trying to assemble a complete set.

Tried the Dandy (and have memories of war stories in my brother's Valiant), but Beano was the one I stuck with.

 

[zimzum42]

Whilst back in London I was amazed to see that Commando comic still seem to be going strong. great stuff!

 

[beanzontoast]

Whilst back in London I was amazed to see that Commando comic still seem to be going strong. great stuff!

Yup - read a good few of those in the past too.

 

[Mr Pig]

I can remember when a packet of crisps was 3p...

 

[gary r]

£2.50 seems a lot of money for a comic. Does the new Beano have more pages than the ones I read in the early 60's? We have about 30 Beano annuals in the loft - some mine, some my sons, some we've acquired from other people. At one time, he was trying to assemble a complete set.

Tried the Dandy (and have memories of war stories in my brother's Valiant), but Beano was the one I stuck with.

its now glossy paper,I was looking forward to having a quick read myself but it's rubbish now.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I can remember when a packet of crisps was 3p...

....and a Mars Bar was 10p and not only that it was the size of a house brick!

 

[Saddle bum]

IIRC, and that's very marginal nowadays, Beano and Dandy were 2d each in the 1950's. Could even have been 1-1/2d, but mum bought them, bless 'er.