I also used to read Dandy comics when I was a kid and a preteen. My favourite Dandy comic strips are Desperate Dan, Winker Wattson, Bananaman (I don't care he's currently in Beano) and Korky. In about late December 2004, I discontinued buying Dandy comics when I was fourteen years old because I thought I had outgrown Dandy comics.
Very interesting. I used to read Beano comics when I was a kid and a preteen. My favourite Beano comic strips are Dennis and Gnasher, Bash Street Kids and Roger the Dodger. In January 2005, I discontinued buying Beano comics when I was nearly fifteen years old because I thought I had outgrown Beano comics.
I remember being 5 years old to 6 stuck in hospital and the chap with the concession trolley would come around but he would only have one copy and if he sold out I would get a nurse often the sister to take me to the concession box and get my copy, when my Nanny came to visit she would bring the Dandy and my great uncle who fought the Japanese in the war would bring commando .
On a separate note from the UK vs US Dennis competition me and TheAshTube are doing, it’s intriguing how bleak and messed up punching down humor was until very recently across the board. If you compare Ren and Stimpy or Fairly OddParents to late ‘90s Beano, there’s a very similar edge. Though of course, the Beano can uniquely say they came up with that kind of somehow kid-oriented humor before anyone else.
Now isn’t it odd that Britain comics had big dichotomy where we had wholesome and mischievous Beano while their more popular contents are exact opposite (like 40k, 2000AD, and “British Invasion” comic writers like Alan Moore). Same with literature since even Lord of the Rings and Hobbif were more Tolkien disillusioned with heroic stories and had “some guy from village dragged into adventures and horrified at conflict” (Bilbo had happy ending but Frodo got PTSD).
@powerist209 it's nice to have different flavours. We needed even more. There were too many beano and dandy style comics thatbdidntnoffer much in alternatives
You know, if US Dennis and UK Dennis met in a McDonalds and shared war stories, US Dennis would be amazed about how long it took for UK Dennis to be reigned in by changing times and disgruntled parents…and promptly realize how it’s better for everyone involved that he’s as tame as he is. And UK Dennis can fire back stating that “Yeah, well my shtick’s been so funny my cousin Minnie’s been ripping it off since ‘53, and even though I despise my publisher’s self-plagiarism, it does remind me of something. When did your guy decide to show the states that lassies can get rough and tumble too?” “Uh, I think the ‘70s…maybe?”
“Wow, your dad paddled you? That hasn’t happened in my strip since…I think CBS forced me to clean my act in the early ‘60s! They’re a television network, by the way” American Dennis would add. “Oy blimey.” Scottish Dennis replied, “Been there. Got to be my old self in the ‘96 cartoon when it was still cool for kids shows to be cynical and edgy. Then when the BBC called me up again in 2009, they decided to tone down the edge saying that that was ‘Horrid Henry’s territory’ Blimey, that guys an even bigger ripoff than you!” “The launch date was a coincidence and for the record, my prototype debuted first!”
Excellent video mate! I probably should do a video covering an issue from my era (which is about 5 years after the issue you cover in this video). It's mad how much has changed about the comic since the late 90s!
@@theashtubereviews Haha thanks! 😁 It's certainly an idea I'd like to do, I'll add it to the list of video projects I've got going on in the background! I recently rediscovered the first issue I remember having so maybe it's definitely worth giving it another look! 👍
@Luke Nyul great minds think alike, I recently bought my first issue again to do a video, I still had my original, but it was in tatters from over reading. Looking forward to seeing your future videos :D
This is one of the greatest publications in the world. My uncle was British so he used to bring buttloads of issues for me and my brother for Christmas. We didn’t always understand the slang, but it was still a lot of fun. Also, yes, I believe Little Plum wasn’t offensive, just a product of its time that went on WAY past when it was acceptable to draw these characters.
I don’t know if you’ve heard of it but I read a copy of toxic magazine back in the day. It used to have its own recurring characters called team toxic, I don’t think they’re in the magazine anymore though.
Ughhh another Beano Video! Well get used to it because I have a lot more coming. If you like the beano content, check out some of my other silly stuff..you know...if you want to
@kingrgames a 20-minute beano episode coming in, hopefully 2 weeks if work doesn't get in the way. I have it all edited. I just need to finish the animation
His considered a cult classic character but never rose to the fame of Dennis, The bash Street kids or even Billy Whizz. I always enjoyed his stripes, It was a shame he wasn't in this issue I looked at
Cuthbert & Plug are my two favourite 'Bash Street Kids', Cuthbert is abit more part of the gang these days, he recently joined the other 'Bash Street Kids' at the Bash Street Kids summer holiday club.
@@theashtubereviews He seems to get more than sometimes he use to, I love the contrast to him from the other Bash Street Kids, they live in Beano Tower, (a block of flats), he lives in a posh house! and driven in a nice car to school. The late Artist David Sutherland wrote to me once and told me Cuthbert is related to the teacher, he is teacher's nephew, did you know that?
Dennis is my character in The Beano, as he's the king of it. It is true when you said Minnie was basically Dennis in a skirt, but I do think there are some differences. I think one main difference in this era of the Beano and before that, Dennis was more of a big tough guy who would knock you out and could be considered a bully, while Minnie wasn't really a bully, and I heard once that the main difference with Dennis and Minnie most of the time was that Dennis was usually punished in the end, while Minnie often escaped and got away with it. The Bash Street Kids are great, Danny is probably my favourite. They have actually introduced more members to the Bash Street Kids recently, and most of them are fine, but I do feel like they should remain as solo characters and not be apart of the Bash Street Kids. Billy Whizz is probably the fastest character in history, honestly, especially in the Beano Videostars. I don't think Roger is a bad kid, I just think he is smart kid more so. For the Beano website, it's actually a good site. Some of the games on the site are actually pretty fun, there was a fun Bash Street Kids game on there, and most of the games about Gnasher are great. Although, there was one game, Flick Football, which I played recently, and I was so bad at it. The Beano is great, but what's weird is that I only have two issues of it, as well as the 2021 annual. I'm not a Beano collector, but I'm a Beano fan in different ways.
Wow that's surprising you only have 2 issues. You are a Beano encyclopaedia. I don't like the new bash street kid characters. They are badly designed and integrated. They would work in their own strip, but they are so modern looking that they clash with the 1940/50s aesthetic of the original kids. I think they should have modernised them all to match the new kids or just gave the new guys their own strip personally. Thanks for the comment 👍
Anybody noticed that Billy is getting more demanding, impatient and down right annoying. Roger is getting waaaaaaaaay too lazy. Dennis changed to Naive in 2017.
Do the fleetway and dc Thomson comedy comic. And also there action line too. With dc Thomson commando warlord and also Buddy and fleetway action scream 2000ad starlord and tornado
Tim traveller always pailed into comparison with freds bed, my favorite strip of it was from an annual where fred kept saying macbeth and his drama teacher told him off for it because it was "cursed." It felt weird back in year 10 to review that play considering i'd heard of it years ago, I'm just glad covid cancelled my GCSEs, FUCK ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Wow, never read Fred's Bed. I was off the Beano wagon by then. Looking it up, it looks really cool, Looks like the same artist who did Calamity James. When I do a late 2000s beano I hope it has a Fred's bed in it
The only one I think I have read is the Bunty, I have heard of Mandy but need to look into the others, Such an amazing history of comics, sad ti see they are all gone now
@@theashtubereviews There’s a good book going over the history, called “masters of British comic art”, it’s by David Roach. I would highly recommend it, excellent read.
I think the UK girl comics will be really fun to do, especially after I have done more beano and dandy, to compare them. The girl one I remember was called the bounty or something
Great video! I stopped reading The Beano earlier this year, all of the changes made it less enjoyable to me. (I started reading it in 2018.) My favourite era has to be from the mid 60s to the mid 90s, once Dennis’s design was changed to be smaller and less “menacing”
We all have our Beano period, some nice things in modern beanos to just not for me. I have a big 20 min beano review of a big 60s beano comic coming in a few weeks so keep an eye out :D
OK this is where I draw the line I mean you can I get Mickey Mouse was popular but you don’t need to give biffo a girlfriend. He’s better off on his own
I love this comic because it’s soo not funny I have a whole collection of them from the from start to finish nearly 100 from the 60s I even have a Christmas specials
I also used to read Dandy comics when I was a kid and a preteen.
My favourite Dandy comic strips are Desperate Dan, Winker Wattson, Bananaman (I don't care he's currently in Beano) and Korky.
In about late December 2004, I discontinued buying Dandy comics when I was fourteen years old because I thought I had outgrown Dandy comics.
I will be making Dandy episodes down the line:) One of my next videos is called 'What is the Dandy', so I hope it brings back some nostalgia :)
@@theashtubereviews OK
I'm from Ireland 🇮🇪 by the way
@@Omegajunior2658 irish got to stick together 😅
Definitely
Very interesting.
I used to read Beano comics when I was a kid and a preteen.
My favourite Beano comic strips are Dennis and Gnasher, Bash Street Kids and Roger the Dodger.
In January 2005, I discontinued buying Beano comics when I was nearly fifteen years old because I thought I had outgrown Beano comics.
I think I was around 14 when I stopped, pressure's of secondary school 🙈
@@theashtubereviews I see
I'll tell you what, mate. I can secretly buy Beano comics and annuals and I think I can secretly buy Dandy annuals as well.
Great video!
Thanks so much :)
I remember being 5 years old to 6 stuck in hospital and the chap with the concession trolley would come around but he would only have one copy and if he sold out I would get a nurse often the sister to take me to the concession box and get my copy, when my Nanny came to visit she would bring the Dandy and my great uncle who fought the Japanese in the war would bring commando .
My first beano was in the hospital too, puts a nice moment on those memories
On a separate note from the UK vs US Dennis competition me and TheAshTube are doing, it’s intriguing how bleak and messed up punching down humor was until very recently across the board. If you compare Ren and Stimpy or Fairly OddParents to late ‘90s Beano, there’s a very similar edge. Though of course, the Beano can uniquely say they came up with that kind of somehow kid-oriented humor before anyone else.
Now isn’t it odd that Britain comics had big dichotomy where we had wholesome and mischievous Beano while their more popular contents are exact opposite (like 40k, 2000AD, and “British Invasion” comic writers like Alan Moore).
Same with literature since even Lord of the Rings and Hobbif were more Tolkien disillusioned with heroic stories and had “some guy from village dragged into adventures and horrified at conflict” (Bilbo had happy ending but Frodo got PTSD).
@powerist209 it's nice to have different flavours. We needed even more. There were too many beano and dandy style comics thatbdidntnoffer much in alternatives
SMASHING video! I've just been waiting for you to make a video like this!
Thank you :D hopefully not to long till the next one :)
You know, if US Dennis and UK Dennis met in a McDonalds and shared war stories, US Dennis would be amazed about how long it took for UK Dennis to be reigned in by changing times and disgruntled parents…and promptly realize how it’s better for everyone involved that he’s as tame as he is. And UK Dennis can fire back stating that “Yeah, well my shtick’s been so funny my cousin Minnie’s been ripping it off since ‘53, and even though I despise my publisher’s self-plagiarism, it does remind me of something. When did your guy decide to show the states that lassies can get rough and tumble too?” “Uh, I think the ‘70s…maybe?”
@@studio7389 American dennis would be shocked by that beatings his UK counterpart used to get
“Wow, your dad paddled you? That hasn’t happened in my strip since…I think CBS forced me to clean my act in the early ‘60s! They’re a television network, by the way” American Dennis would add. “Oy blimey.” Scottish Dennis replied, “Been there. Got to be my old self in the ‘96 cartoon when it was still cool for kids shows to be cynical and edgy. Then when the BBC called me up again in 2009, they decided to tone down the edge saying that that was ‘Horrid Henry’s territory’ Blimey, that guys an even bigger ripoff than you!” “The launch date was a coincidence and for the record, my prototype debuted first!”
I strangely relate to Ivy the Terrible 😅 Also, I'm not at all surprised you like that Daisy girl and her Welsh eyelashes..
Don't I love me some spider eyelashes
Amazing video so excited for more of your beano videos!
Thank you so much :D
Fun fact: I was in the Beano over a year ago
You were the Beano Boss?
Excellent video mate! I probably should do a video covering an issue from my era (which is about 5 years after the issue you cover in this video). It's mad how much has changed about the comic since the late 90s!
Oh wow,the Luke saw my video 🙈 you should would love to see your take looking back on your era Beano
@@theashtubereviews Haha thanks! 😁 It's certainly an idea I'd like to do, I'll add it to the list of video projects I've got going on in the background! I recently rediscovered the first issue I remember having so maybe it's definitely worth giving it another look! 👍
@Luke Nyul great minds think alike, I recently bought my first issue again to do a video, I still had my original, but it was in tatters from over reading. Looking forward to seeing your future videos :D
Plug did get his own strip in the 1974 Topper annual. He catches a dopey thief who was trying to steal the silver trophies at a fair.
He had his own strip in the beano for a while, too, I think,
This is one of the greatest publications in the world. My uncle was British so he used to bring buttloads of issues for me and my brother for Christmas. We didn’t always understand the slang, but it was still a lot of fun. Also, yes, I believe Little Plum wasn’t offensive, just a product of its time that went on WAY past when it was acceptable to draw these characters.
@@user-yr8mu1ce1m hope you held onto those issues :)
David Sutherland (Beano artist) passed away yesterday ;(
I know, he had an amazing 60 year career
I made a short song about him
@@BenGManMedia I'll have to check it out when you post it
I'll post it soon
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I love this channel.
more please.
I'll do my best to get more out :D
I love the beano my favourite comic. Bash Street Kids my favourite strip.
I'm glad you liked it, I have plenty more beano stuff coming, including the Bash Street kids
I don’t know if you’ve heard of it but I read a copy of toxic magazine back in the day.
It used to have its own recurring characters called team toxic, I don’t think they’re in the magazine anymore though.
No never heard of it but I'll have to look them up, could be something interesting to do a video on some day:D
Ughhh another Beano Video! Well get used to it because I have a lot more coming. If you like the beano content, check out some of my other silly stuff..you know...if you want to
Cmon more Beano please!
@kingrgames a 20-minute beano episode coming in, hopefully 2 weeks if work doesn't get in the way. I have it all edited. I just need to finish the animation
I loved the Beano of the 1980s. I stopped after they changed the design in summer 1988 (the 50th year anniversary).
They should have left it alone 😢
I felt the same when they changed the late 90s early 2000s design and also stopped reading 😅 I think a lot of us have the same experience
It's woke as hell, now
Also calamity James is underrated, the creators of don’t hug me i’m scared have even referenced him in their work.
His considered a cult classic character but never rose to the fame of Dennis, The bash Street kids or even Billy Whizz. I always enjoyed his stripes, It was a shame he wasn't in this issue I looked at
@@theashtubereviews dont forget the numbskulls, another longtime classic
@@benjaminwilson2945 they just snuck into this one in that bath time page 😅
@@theashtubereviews also unrelated but Nigel parkinson, the current artist of the Dennis strips lives in liverpool, not far from me actually.
@@benjaminwilson2945 oh wow, did you ever get his autograph
I only started collecting dandy annuals/compilations in 2021 and I missed out on soo much.
Cuthbert & Plug are my two favourite 'Bash Street Kids', Cuthbert is abit more part of the gang these days, he recently joined the other 'Bash Street Kids' at the Bash Street Kids summer holiday club.
Always a big Cuthbert fan, needs more screen time
@@theashtubereviews He seems to get more than sometimes he use to, I love the contrast to him from the other Bash Street Kids, they live in Beano Tower, (a block of flats), he lives in a posh house! and driven in a nice car to school. The late Artist David Sutherland wrote to me once and told me Cuthbert is related to the teacher, he is teacher's nephew, did you know that?
@SimonandJojo didn't know that, but as a kid, I used to think he was teachers son because he just looked like the boy version of teacher
Maybe you could cover the animated adaptations of the comic?
Yes,I have plans to cover the cartoons and other oddities :) The Dennis shows, the beano superstars tapes, and 1 really fun obscure one 😀
@@theashtubereviews is the obscure one the old puppet show from the 1990's?
@@kenobistudios yes, I have the first season downloaded, I snuck some clips of it into a few videos
And also i want you to do every single beano and dandy crossover
Eventually
Brilliant video. More beano content please 🎉
Lots more planned just need the time but I'll get more done :D
And Here some more stuff. What is Buster
What is whizzer and chip
What is onik
What is the topper
What is Beezer
And also maybe do the last issues of dandy that could be fun
I have the last issue,it will be a big episode down the line
I loved the beano growing up
It was the best comic
Dennis The Menace is my fave character.
Mine too :D
Dennis is my character in The Beano, as he's the king of it. It is true when you said Minnie was basically Dennis in a skirt, but I do think there are some differences. I think one main difference in this era of the Beano and before that, Dennis was more of a big tough guy who would knock you out and could be considered a bully, while Minnie wasn't really a bully, and I heard once that the main difference with Dennis and Minnie most of the time was that Dennis was usually punished in the end, while Minnie often escaped and got away with it. The Bash Street Kids are great, Danny is probably my favourite. They have actually introduced more members to the Bash Street Kids recently, and most of them are fine, but I do feel like they should remain as solo characters and not be apart of the Bash Street Kids. Billy Whizz is probably the fastest character in history, honestly, especially in the Beano Videostars. I don't think Roger is a bad kid, I just think he is smart kid more so. For the Beano website, it's actually a good site. Some of the games on the site are actually pretty fun, there was a fun Bash Street Kids game on there, and most of the games about Gnasher are great. Although, there was one game, Flick Football, which I played recently, and I was so bad at it. The Beano is great, but what's weird is that I only have two issues of it, as well as the 2021 annual. I'm not a Beano collector, but I'm a Beano fan in different ways.
it's even more than listening dennis the menace vs horrid henry!
Wow that's surprising you only have 2 issues. You are a Beano encyclopaedia. I don't like the new bash street kid characters. They are badly designed and integrated. They would work in their own strip, but they are so modern looking that they clash with the 1940/50s aesthetic of the original kids. I think they should have modernised them all to match the new kids or just gave the new guys their own strip personally. Thanks for the comment 👍
You just can't add to the core gang. I usually find things out about the Beano through the internet.
Harsha and Mandi were fine but Stevie mahria and khadija?! No way?! Yes, that totals to 15 members if you include Cuthbert
Anybody noticed that Billy is getting more demanding, impatient and down right annoying. Roger is getting waaaaaaaaay too lazy. Dennis changed to Naive in 2017.
Do the fleetway and dc Thomson comedy comic. And also there action line too. With dc Thomson commando warlord and also Buddy and fleetway action scream 2000ad starlord and tornado
Haha in time 😉 a lot of things to do and not enough time 😅
Tim traveller always pailed into comparison with freds bed, my favorite strip of it was from an annual where fred kept saying macbeth and his drama teacher told him off for it because it was "cursed."
It felt weird back in year 10 to review that play considering i'd heard of it years ago, I'm just glad covid cancelled my GCSEs, FUCK ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Wow, never read Fred's Bed. I was off the Beano wagon by then. Looking it up, it looks really cool, Looks like the same artist who did Calamity James. When I do a late 2000s beano I hope it has a Fred's bed in it
Did you know in 2020 that we have a new Tim who turned into a girl whooo
@@kingrgames fr? what strip was that.
@@Belks1453 Second strip of 2020. I have it
My mum used to read the Mandy, Judy, Bunty, and Jackie magazines.
Also I have the last dandy issue as well.
The only one I think I have read is the Bunty, I have heard of Mandy but need to look into the others, Such an amazing history of comics, sad ti see they are all gone now
@@theashtubereviews There’s a good book going over the history, called “masters of British comic art”, it’s by David Roach. I would highly recommend it, excellent read.
@Benjamin Wilson cool, I am trying to buy up as much books as I can, comics or books about their history so that sounds essential
@@theashtubereviews biffo the bear was still seen until recently, i think they finally completely removed him in 2015 though.
And also do Smash uk comic
2:09 BLACKFACE
He used to be a mascot, peanut. They remove him from re-releases of issue 1
@@theashtubereviews😂😂😂😂esksosi,askers,s,s,s,she,.s.s.s.s
And also made do scream, and all those uk girl comics
I think the UK girl comics will be really fun to do, especially after I have done more beano and dandy, to compare them. The girl one I remember was called the bounty or something
The beano is my hero g 😎👍👏👏👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Do eagle and also scream and action
I'll look those up :)
Great video! I stopped reading The Beano earlier this year, all of the changes made it less enjoyable to me. (I started reading it in 2018.) My favourite era has to be from the mid 60s to the mid 90s, once Dennis’s design was changed to be smaller and less “menacing”
We all have our Beano period, some nice things in modern beanos to just not for me. I have a big 20 min beano review of a big 60s beano comic coming in a few weeks so keep an eye out :D
And maybe do battle
Joanah is underrated. Not 100% sure he was Beano though?!
Is that Jonah the sailer? Yes, he was the beano
@@theashtubereviews yes, he had really bad luck. All his boats sank.
Bro look like toucan Sam
Do whizzer and chip.
nice!
Thank you
OK this is where I draw the line I mean you can I get Mickey Mouse was popular but you don’t need to give biffo a girlfriend. He’s better off on his own
Biffo can fly solo
What do you mean
@CollinTheAnimator3000 fly solo means you don't need anyone else, you said Biffo doesn't need a girlfriend
Yeah and
DING
DONG!
@@97channel I will have a video in a few days all about that topic 😉
Isn’t commando still going, also we had Eagle and Dan Dare, also the US Denis was a poor imitation of the British classic.
I never had Eagle or Dan dare, I should look them up
Little plumb is not racist
It has racial undertones, I like little plum but I had to mention it..its mostly the way he talks
And also maybe do some other uk humor comic.
That's the plan, start with the beano and work my way through others look buster, dandy Topper, The Viz, Bounty
@@theashtubereviews Thank
I love this comic because it’s soo not funny I have a whole collection of them from the from start to finish nearly 100 from the 60s
I even have a Christmas specials
Christmas specials were always good
It's too woke now. Best time for the comic was back in the 80's 👍
@@WillScarlet1991 back when they could put the boot to dennis
No one remembers triffic
I don't know triffic, I remember a marvel comic in Britain called Terrific but I never read it