The Beano & The Dandy

The Beano Book/Annual #76.5

by D.C. Thomson & Company Limited

152 pages, Hardcover

First published July 4, 2014

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

[Arnas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grew up reading The Beano & The Dandy comics as a child. Glad to finally have got around to reading this one.

[Wreade1872 · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The Comics That Won The War."

Good selection of WWII strips with some notes about production during the war. Some pretty funny stuff.

There was one morbidly ironic moment. One page was a mess with 2 strips put in the wrong order and another unrelated one pasted in too. And on this one badly edited page they paid tribute to an editor who died fighting during the conflict. Awful but still ironic :| .