The Beano Annual 2005

The Beano Book/Annual #66

by D.C. Thomson & Company Limited

The Beano Annual 2005 [Hardcover] D C Thomson

Genres: Comics

Board book

Published September 1, 2004

About the author

D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy and Commando comics. It also owns Friends Reunited, Parragon, and the Aberdeen Journals Group which publishes the Press and Journal, the Evening Express, the Aberdeen Citizen and the North Scotland edition of ScotAds.

The company began as a branch of the Thomson family business when William Thomson became the sole proprietor of Charles Alexander & Co., publishers of Dundee Courier and Daily Argus. In 1884, David Coupar Thomson took over the publishing business, and established it as DC Thomson in 1905. The firm flourished, and took its place as the third J in the "Three Js", the traditional summary of Dundee industry ('jam, jute and journalism'). Thomson was notable for his conservatism, vigorously opposing the introduction of trade unions into his workforce, and for refusing to employ Catholics.

Reviews

[Caroline "Carrie" Murphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Found this beauty in a charity shop. I was a huge fan of The Beano growing up, same as my boomer dad.

This was the last annual I got as a kid and it brought back some great memories. Happy times

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

More Beano favourites most of which are familiar to several generations now.

[Neil Wright · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good solid edition of the Beano Annual