"Big Eggo Big Eggo was a British comic strip series about an eponymous ostrich, published in the British magazine""The Beano"". He first appeared in issue 1, dated 30 July 1938, and was the first ever cover star. His first words in the strip were ""Somebody's taken my egg again!"" It was drawn throughout by Reg Carter. Eggo remained on the cover of ""The Beano"" until issue 326, dated 10 January 1948. Biffo the Bear took over two weeks later, as at this time the comic was published fortnightly due to paper rationing. He continued inside the comic until issue 358,"
"British comics A British comic is a periodical published in the United Kingdom that contains comic strips. It is generally referred to as a comic or a comic magazine, and historically as a comic paper. British comics are usually comics anthologies which are typically aimed at children, and are published weekly, although some are also published on a fortnightly or monthly schedule. The two most popular British comics, ""The Beano"" and ""The Dandy"", were released by DC Thomson in the 1930s. By 1950 the weekly circulation of both reached two million. Explaining the enormous popularity of comics in British popular"
"The Dandy The Dandy was a British children's comic published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. The first issue was printed in December 1937, making it the world's third-longest running comic, after ""Il Giornalino"" (cover dated 1 October 1924) and ""Detective Comics"" (cover dated March 1937). From August 2007 until October 2010, it was rebranded as ""Dandy Xtreme"". One of the best selling comics in British popular culture, along with ""The Beano"", ""The Dandy"" reached sales of two million a week in the 1950s. The final printed edition was issued on 4 December 2012, the comic's 75th anniversary, after"
"that predominated in the US. Gifford observed that the ""Thirties were the Golden Age of British comics"" due to the profusion of successful, high quality and specifically British humour comics beginning in the 1930s, including D.C. Thomson's ""The Dandy"" (4 December 1937), ""The Beano"" (30 July 1938) and ""Magic"" (22 July 1939) and Amalgamated Press's ""Jingles"" (1934), ""Jolly"" (1935), ""Golden"" (23 October 1937), ""Radio Fun"" (15 October 1938), ""Happy Days"" (8 October 1938) and ""Knockout"" (4 March 1939). The start of the Second World War in 1939, and the resulting paper shortages, marked the end of many of the titles,"
"Pansy Potter Pansy Potter The Strongman's Daughter is a British comic strip series created in 1938 by Hugh McNeill for the magazine ""The Beano"". The series appeared first in the issue dated 17 December 1938. The protagonist is Pansy Potter, a girl who has super strength. McNeill was assisted by Harry Hargreaves. During the war years, a number of different artists with their own distinct styles drew the strip, including Basil Blackaller. Around 1949 Jimmy Clark took up drawing the strip, and it was retitled as ""Pansy Potter in Wonderland"". As the name suggested, Pansy Potter no longer lived in"
"second half of the 1930s. In 1936, the experienced publisher Jean Dupuis put his sons Paul and the 19-year-old Charles in charge of a new magazine aimed at the juvenile market. First appearing in April 1938, it was a large format magazine, available only in French and only in Wallonia. It introduced two new comics, the eponymous ""Spirou"" drawn by the young Frenchman Rob-Vel, and ""Les Aventures de Tif"" (later to become ""Tif et Tondu"") written and drawn by Fernand Dineur, and printed American comics such as ""Superman"", ""Red Ryder"" and ""Brick Bradford"". On 27 October 1938 the Dutch edition"
"in newspapers after the success in 1907 of Bud Fisher's ""Mutt and Jeff"". In Britain, the Amalgamated Press established a popular style of a sequence of images with text beneath them, including ""Illustrated Chips"" and ""Comic Cuts"". Humour strips predominated at first, and in the 1920s and 1930s strips with continuing stories in genres such as adventure and drama also became popular. Thin periodicals called comic books appeared in the 1930s, at first reprinting newspaper comic strips; by the end of the decade, original content began to dominate. The success in 1938 of ""Action Comics"" and its lead hero Superman"
"the 1930s. By 1950 the weekly circulation of both reached two million. Explaining the enormous popularity of comics in British popular culture during this period, Anita O'Brien, director curator at London's Cartoon Museum, states: ""When comics like the Beano and Dandy were invented back in the 1930s - and through really to the 1950s and 60s - these comics were almost the only entertainment available to children."" The ""world's naughtiest schoolboy"", ""Dennis the Menace"" was created in the 1950s, which saw sales for ""The Beano"" soar. He features in the cover of ""The Beano"", with the BBC referring to him"
"marked the beginning of the Golden Age of Comic Books, in which the superhero genre was prominent. In the UK and the Commonwealth, the DC Thomson-created ""Dandy"" (1937) and ""Beano"" (1938) became successful humor-based titles, with a combined circulation of over 2 million copies by the 1950s. Their characters, including ""Dennis the Menace"", ""Desperate Dan"" and ""The Bash Street Kids"" have been read by generations of British schoolboys. The comics originally experimented with superheroes and action stories before settling on humorous strips featuring a mix of the Amalgamated Press and US comic book styles. The popularity of superhero comic books"
"in 1938, when Dupuis added to its portfolio a men's magazine (""Le moustique"" [the mosquito] in French, ""Humoradio"" in Dutch), a women's magazine (""Bonnes Soirées"" [good evenings] in French, ""De Haardvriend"" [the hearth's friend] in Dutch) and the children's comics magazine ""Spirou"". The latter was originally only in French, and contained a mixture of American comics (e.g. ""Superman"", ""Brick Bradford"", and ""Red Ryder"") and new creations (""Spirou et Fantasio"" and ""Tif et Tondu""). A few months later, a Dutch edition called ""Robbedoes"" followed. After some difficulties during the war (mainly because of the scarcity of paper towards the end of"
"public's mind of comics as somewhat juvenile. ""The Guardian"" refers to Ally Sloper as ""one of the world's first iconic cartoon characters"", and ""as famous in Victorian Britain as Dennis the Menace would be a century later."" British comics in the early 20th century typically evolved from illustrated penny dreadfuls of the Victorian era (featuring Sweeney Todd, Dick Turpin and ""Varney the Vampire""). First published in the 1830s, penny dreadfuls were ""Britain's first taste of mass-produced popular culture for the young."" The two most popular British comic books, ""The Beano"" and ""The Dandy"", were first published by DC Thomson in"
"magazines became quite popular, especially those published by DC Thomson; the publisher sent observers around the country to talk to boys and learn what they wanted to read about. The story line in magazines, comic books and cinema that most appealed to boys was the glamorous heroism of British soldiers fighting wars that were exciting and just. D.C. Thomson issued the first ""The Dandy Comic"" in December 1937. It had a revolutionary design that broke away from the usual children's comics that were published broadsheet in size and not very colourful. Thomson capitalized on its success with a similar product"
"TV Comic TV Comic was a British comic book magazine published weekly from 9 November 1951 until 29 June 1984. Originally started by Beaverbrook, it was published by Polystyle Publications from 1960 and featured stories based on television series running at the time of publication. The first issue ran to eight pages, with ""Muffin the Mule"" on the front cover. It also featured many other TV favourites of the day, including ""Mr. Pastry"", ""Larry the Lamb"", ""Tom Puss"", ""Prince Valiant"" (Hal Foster reprint), ""Jack & Jill"" and ""Prudence Kitten"". In common with other British children's comics, ""TV Comic"" absorbed other,"
"Tony Morrow, the Desperate Dan statue, which also features his dog Dawg, is the most photographed of 120 pieces of public art in the city. In July 2001 the cover of ""The Dandy"" featured Dan visiting Dundee and encountering his statue. In December 2012 the University of Dundee held an exhibition in partnership with D C Thomson to mark the comic's 75th anniversary. The Dandy The Dandy was a British children's comic published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. The first issue was printed in December 1937, making it the world's third-longest running comic, after ""Il Giornalino"" (cover dated"
"Commando Comics"". Commando (comics) Commando For Action and Adventure, formerly known as ""Commando War Stories in Pictures"", and colloquially known as ""Commando Comics"", is a British comic book magazine that primarily draw its themes and backdrops from the various incidents of the First and Second World Wars. It was first published in July 1961 and is still in print today. It's noted for its distinctive 7 × 5½ inch, 68 page format that became a standard for these kinds of stories. ""Commando"" has remained more popular than many other British war comics, and some would say British comics in general,"
"actors, plus more general articles about teenage life, whilst throwing in a few comic strips for good measure. In British comics history, there are some extremely long-running publications such as ""The Beano"" and ""The Dandy"" published by D. C. Thomson & Co., a newspaper company based in Dundee, Scotland. ""The Dandy"" began in 1937 and ""The Beano"" in 1938. ""The Beano"" is still going today while ""The Dandy"" ceased print publication in 2012. The ""Boys' Own Paper"" lasted from 1879 to 1967. There has been a continuous tradition of black and white comics, published in a smaller page size format,"
"Commando (comics) Commando For Action and Adventure, formerly known as ""Commando War Stories in Pictures"", and colloquially known as ""Commando Comics"", is a British comic book magazine that primarily draw its themes and backdrops from the various incidents of the First and Second World Wars. It was first published in July 1961 and is still in print today. It's noted for its distinctive 7 × 5½ inch, 68 page format that became a standard for these kinds of stories. ""Commando"" has remained more popular than many other British war comics, and some would say British comics in general, because of"
"by William Randolph Hearst to create similar kid characters for a new strip, ""Just Kids"". It was launched as a daily July 23, 1923, with the Sunday strip following during the next month. Later that decade, Carter began another strip, ""Nicodemus O'Malley"", which also featured kids as the main characters. In 1950, the title of ""Just Kids"" changed to ""Mush Stebbins and His Sister"". Comics historian Don Markstein described the ""Just Kids"" gang: ""The Adventures of Just Kids"" was published by Saalfield in 1934. ""Just Kids and Deep-Sea Dan"" was a 1940 Big Little Book published by Whitman. An offshoot"
"Rabbit and the March Hare. The oldest funny animal comic strip is James Swinnerton's ""The Little Bears"", which debuted in 1892. The earliest example of funny animals in a British comic strip was Arthur White's ""Jungle Jinks"" (1898-1947), which featured a group of school children, anthropomorphized as animals. The comic strip ran in Playbox, a supplement of Home Chat, for years. ""Jungle Jinks"" in particular paved the way for a whole stream of British comics about cute animal characters: ""Tiger Tim"", ""Teddy Tail"", ""Rupert Bear""... and so on. An early example of a novel which made exclusive use of funny"
"Hood and Company"", which made its appearance in comic books when McCall founded Anglo-American Publishing in 1941. The Golden Age of Comic Books and subsequent superhero boom began with the release in June 1938 of ""Action Comics"" #1. The cover story was the first appearance of Superman, drawn by Toronto-born Joe Shuster. Shuster modeled Superman's Metropolis after his memories of Toronto, and the newspaper Clark Kent worked for after the ""Toronto Daily Star"", which he had delivered as a child. These comics crossed the border and quickly gained Canadian fans as well. In December 1940, the War Exchange Conservation Act"
"Twinkle (comics) Twinkle, 'the picture paper specially for little girls' was a popular British comics magazine, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd from 27 January 1968 to 1999 (1612 issues). It was aimed at young girls and came out weekly, supplemented each year with a Summer Special and a hardcover Annual (the first annual was dated 1970). The comics were introduced by Twinkle herself and featured comic strips, dress-up dolls, a Twinkle Club letters page, and, often, puzzles. Among the most popular comic strips were Nurse Nancy (illustrated by Sabine Price), Jenny Wren, Witch Winkle, Polly's Magic Paintbox,"
"Twinkle (comics) Twinkle, 'the picture paper specially for little girls' was a popular British comics magazine, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd from 27 January 1968 to 1999 (1612 issues). It was aimed at young girls and came out weekly, supplemented each year with a Summer Special and a hardcover Annual (the first annual was dated 1970). The comics were introduced by Twinkle herself and featured comic strips, dress-up dolls, a Twinkle Club letters page, and, often, puzzles. Among the most popular comic strips were Nurse Nancy (illustrated by Sabine Price), Jenny Wren, Witch Winkle, Polly's Magic Paintbox,"
"content was mostly American newspaper strips and the first issue sported a cover strip by Will Eisner. Okay lasted only until 26 February 1938, or a total of twenty issues. At about this same time, other British publishers experimented with reprinting American comics and imports of the real thing began to land on British shores. It rapidly became apparent that a significant British market for American comic books existed. However, the British declaration of war on Germany on 3 September 1939, immediately halted the official importation of American comics into the United Kingdom although masses of American comics intended for"
"with the working class and may have had a circulation as high as 350,000. In 1890, two more comic magazines debuted to the British public, ""Comic Cuts"" and ""Illustrated Chips"", establishing the tradition of the British comic as an anthology periodical containing comic strips. In the United States, R.F. Outcault's work in combining speech balloons and images on ""Hogan's Alley"" and The Yellow Kid has been credited as establishing the form and conventions of the comic strip, though academics have uncovered earlier works that combine speech bubbles and a multi image narrative. However, the popularity of Outcalt's work and the"
"Playhour Playhour was a British children's comics magazine published between 16 October 1954 and 15 August 1987, a run of approximately 1,700 weekly issues. Originally published under the title ""Playhour Pictures"", the title was shortened with issue 32 to ""Playhour"". ""Playhour"" was intended as a companion to ""Jack and Jill"", initially aimed at a slightly older audience. The lead strip in its early days was ""Prince, the Wonder Dog of the Golden West"", drawn by Sep E. Scott. With issue 32 (21 May 1955) it lowered its target age-group and introduced comic strips based on A. A. Milne's ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" and"
"the 1930s. By 1950 the weekly circulation of both reached two million. Explaining the popularity of comics during this period, Anita O'Brien, director curator at London's Cartoon Museum, states: “When comics like the ""Beano"" and ""Dandy"" were invented back in the 1930s – and through really to the 1950s and 1960s – these comics were almost the only entertainment available to children."" In 1954 ""Tiger"" comics introduced ""Roy of the Rovers"", the hugely popular football based strip recounting the life of Roy Race and the team he played for, Melchester Rovers. The stock media phrase ""real 'Roy of the Rovers'"
"meal, or loosely ""a good time"". A third paper, ""The Magic Comic"", aimed at a slightly younger audience, followed in July 1939, but ceased publication in early 1941, due to paper rationing. Wartime shortages also prevented the New Big Five project from being completed. The first edition of ""The Beano"" was dated 30 July 1938. A facsimile of the first issue's cover was printed on the back of issue No. 2,000. There are only 12 known copies of the first issue in existence, and only five known copies of the second issue (not including facsimiles). A copy of the first"
"Knockout (UK comics) Knockout may refer to one of two British comics. The first, published by the Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications), was launched by editor Percy Clarke and sub-editor Leonard Matthews in 1939 to compete with ""The Dandy"" and ""The Beano"", launched by DC Thomson in 1937 and 1938 respectively. Like its rivals, it featured a mixture of humour and adventure strips and illustrated prose stories. Matthews recruited Hugh McNeill, a former ""Beano"" artist, as the title's main humour artist, and his strips ""Our Ernie"" and ""Deed-a-Day Danny"" were very popular. Two characters were imported from the prose story"
"Oink! (comics) Oink! was a British comic book magazine for children which was published from 3 May 1986 to 22 October 1988. It set out to be deliberately anarchic, reminiscent of ""Viz"" but for children. The creators also cited ""Mad"" magazine as a major influence. Part of its difference in the marketplace was that it attracted writers and cartoonists from a wide range of previous disciplines. It was devised, launched and edited by Patrick Gallagher, ""Private Eye"" regular contributor Tony Husband and Mark Rodgers, although within the fiction of the comic it was ""edited"" by a character called Uncle Pigg"
"Ward & Copley Art Studio of Oxford Road, Manchester. At Ward & Copley from 1932 until about January 1940 when lack of business ended his employment, McLoughlin found himself creating product illustrations for catalogues and newspaper advertisements for 10/- a week. T.V. Boardman, Ltd., was but one of many London publishing houses turning out both paperback and hardcover books, pulp magazines, and comics. Boardman pioneered British reprinting of American comics. During the week of 16 October 1937, the first issue of a Boardman tabloid comic in the traditional British format, Okay Comics Weekly, arrived at newsagents all over England. The"
"Polish comics Polish comics are comics written and produced in Poland. Very few of these comics have been published in languages other than Polish. One of the first and most famous Polish comics was ""Koziołek Matołek"" (Matołek the Billy-Goat), created by Kornel Makuszyński (story) and Marian Walentynowicz (art) in 1933. It became a cult classic, still popular today, and is an important part of the canon of Polish children's literature. In the People's Republic of Poland the term comic (""komiks"") was discouraged as a ""demoralising Western influence,"" and the terms ""graphic stories"" (""historyjki obrazkowe"") or ""color books"" (""kolorowe zeszyty"") were"
"Pippin (comics) Pippin was a UK children's comic, published by Polystyle Publications between 1966 and 1986, featuring characters from British pre-school television programmes. Stories were generally of four or eight numbered panels, with a short sentence below each illustration (similar to ""Rupert""), although some stories did appear in prose form. Regular stories included ""The Pogles"" (whose Pippin character gave the comic its name), ""Bizzy Lizzy, Joe, The Woodentops, Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben, Camberwick Green, Trumpton"" and ""Chigley, Titch and Quackers, Toytown, Mary Mungo & Midge, The Moonbeans, Tales of the Riverbank, The Herbs, Mr Benn, Teddy Edward, Barnaby the"
"Funny Wonder Funny Wonder is the name of two British comics published by Amalgamated Press. The first was published from 30 July 1892 – 25 May 1901 this comic was more satirical in nature like other early comics during its first run, also in this first run it absorbed another comic called Wonder in 1893. A second series ran from 26 December 1914 – 16 May 1942 when it merged with ""Wonder"" which in turn merged with ""Radio Fun"" in 1953. This new comic was aimed much more at children than the previous ""Funny Wonder"". In 1915 ""Funny Wonder"" began"