Beano Annual 2019 2019

The Beano Book/Annual #80

by D.C. Thomson & Company Limited

For the first time, stars of TV s smash hit Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed are united with legends from Beanotown s past, present and future! The Beano Annual 2019 delivers 112 pages of brand new, hilarious and mischievous comic strip stories and is the ultimate read for kids of all ages. Guaranteed laughs on every single page!

Genres: Comics

112 pages, Hardcover

Published July 6, 2018

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

[Cee Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always a highlight of my year!

I know the jokes are rubbish and predictable. I know they are simple and childish, even. I know this because I'm sixty years old.
But I love it!
I was an 'occasional' Beano reader back in the day. Well, maybe 'frequent'but nor 'regular,' favouring Beezer and Hotspur as well as TV21.

But The Beano has always been there in my life, and every Christmas morning, even now, I waken like a, err, kid at Christmas excited to see if Santa has brought a copy of the latest annual. (Just in case he didn't get the hint, I generally buy a copy myself and pop it under the tree.)

Anyway - this year's edition doesn't disappoint. The Time Machine theme is genius, giving scope to meet some characters from the past. As is the the inside cover, where there are 255 Beano characters from past and present for the reader to identify.

And of course ... the smell. Is there a more comforting smell in the universe than that emitted from the flicking of pages of a Beano annual on Christmas morning?

I rest my case, m'lud.
:-D

[DAVID O CONNOR · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious

[Rhys_BookDude · Rating 4 out of 5]

epic ( just writing this cuz been offline 4 ages)

[Neil Wright · Rating 4 out of 5]

I seem to have stumbled on a period of the annuals with comics galore and no filler. Looking forward to seeing if this continues

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I vote 5 stars because I have read this book in real life! I am gonna see if I can find more. I think the next annual is going to star Dennis and Gnasher.