Bunty for Girls 1981

Bunty for Girls

by D.C. Thomson & Company Limited (Editor)

The Bunty the Book for Girls 1981 annual, published late August 1980.

125 pages, Hardcover

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

[Shauna · Rating 2 out of 5]

These more modern editions of the Bunty annuals are definitely inferior. I think the glory days were in the mid 1960s to mid 1970s. The artwork and story content is much poorer than earlier books. My all-time favourite strip, The Four Mary's, is still a regular but is now just a vehicle for farcical, sci-fi type themes. So disappointing. I used to love reading of their school adventures.