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Retro Classics: The Best of The Topper Annual
The Topper was a weekly British humour comic for kids that launched in 1953 and ran until 1990, when it was meged with companion comic The Beezer. Created as a stablemate to the famous comics The Dandy and The Beano, it featured a similar mix of funny strips and adventure stories, and artwork from now-legendary artists like Dudley D. Watkins (original artist on The Dandy's Desperate Dan) on Mickey the Monkey, and David Law (original artist on The Beano's Dennis the Menace) drawing Beryl the Peril.
The Best of the Topper Annual collects some of the funniest strips from The Topper Book, which appeared annually as a Christmas treat from 1954 to 1994. Join Mickey the Monkey, Beryl the Peril, Nick Kelly, Julius Cheeser and many more comic pals for fun from across four decades of The Topper.
The Best of the Topper Annual collects some of the funniest strips from The Topper Book, which appeared annually as a Christmas treat from 1954 to 1994. Join Mickey the Monkey, Beryl the Peril, Nick Kelly, Julius Cheeser and many more comic pals for fun from across four decades of The Topper.
68 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 25, 2015
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D.C. Thomson & Company Limited
783 books39 followersD. 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.
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.
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July 31, 2017
It was absolutely funny
I loved reading it when I was bored also it makes me laugh a lot all the time everyday and even year
I loved reading it when I was bored also it makes me laugh a lot all the time everyday and even year
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