Gosh How The Beano Has Changed!

[Ann]

How "The Bash Street Kids" have chnged over the years! See the cartoons in the Beano today compared to yesteryear.

Political correctness /health and safety has crept in! The teacher as we remember him from our childhood comic was a bit like Hitler but now there is a lady teacher and a coloured teacher - the children are different looking and Gnasher the dog who was so fierce looking back in the 50s/60s is now a dog who does "gentle gnashing" of teeth.

Bring back the old style we say! LOL
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339691/Behave-Dennis-future-king-Charles-Camilla-make-guest-appearance-latest-edition-Beano.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[Ann]

.........and what about Biffo the Bear?

They are all on this link ...........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_comic_strips

[Svejk]

I joined Desperate Dan's Cow-Pie Club when I was 30.

[murraymints]

My brother had a dog called gnasher !

[murraymints]

And...I was in the tuffty club badge n all !

[murraymints]

Never got the blue Peter badge though. .......Damn !

[tonyav]

Still waiting for my Dennis the Menace catapult to arrive, sent for it last year !.

[Ann]

Will this do Tony?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Childrens-Dennis-The-Menace-Plastic-Catapult-Slingshot-Outdoors-Toy-Game-/200927788528?pt=UK_Toys_Games_Outdoor_Toys_ET&hash=item2ec83abdf0#ht_224wt_959

[Ann]

Found the Beano online. Click on the tab marked "Retro Beano" and see what happens hahaha :))

http://www.beano.com/

[sandyRoe]

Where's Lord Snooty?

[Ann]

He is there Sandy - look on my link, click on Retro Beano, then it gives tab options for each decade (takes a while to load) Lord Snooty is there in 1950s and 1960s.

[grasscarp]

Yep Minnie the minx in the beano and it was what my family called me. Bring back original teacher!

[Ann]

There is even a Beano quiz to do!
http://www.beano.com/characters/the-three-bears/fun-zone/how-well-do-you-know-the-beano

[sandyRoe]

Lord Snooty had a lot of common mates. Maybe he renounced his peerage to stand as a Labour MP during the time of the Wislon government.

[FredPuli43]

Beezer and Beano for me. The Beano has changed a lot. The abundant gratuitous violence made it for me. I bought some of the old editions, sadly for rather more than 3d, just to revel in it :) There's a thriving market, far wider than the comic collectors, made by people who just want to relive their childhood. Sad really!

[sandyRoe]

I've just seen Keyhole Kate in the Lord S strip. She might have went on to be a model in the 60s. She had the figure for it.

[Ann]

One 1950s comic on ebay for £35!

[Ann]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Beano-No-433-4th-November-1950-Fireworks-/230991371759?pt=UK_Books_comics_Magazines_UK_Comics_ET&hash=item35c8289def#ht_3301wt_1030

[jno]

Snooty got off to a bad start before acquiring the common touch

http://comicsuk.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&;t=5222