FREE THE HISTORY OF THE BEANO: THE STORY SO FAR PDF D C Thomson | 352 pages | 01 Jan 2009 | Waverley Books | 9781902407739 | English | Lanark, United Kingdom The Entire Destiny 2 Story Explained, Including the Lore in Shadowkeep | Digital Trends The comic first appeared on 30 July[1] and was published weekly. In SeptemberThe Beano' s 3,th issue was published. Each issue is published on a Wednesday, The History of the Beano: The Story So Far the issue date being that of the following Saturday. The Beano reached its 4,th issue on 28 August The style of Beano humour has shifted noticeably over the years, [4] though the longstanding tradition of anarchic humour has remained. Historically, many protagonists were characterised by their immoral behaviour, e. Although the readers' sympathies are assumed The History of the Beano: The Story So Far be with the miscreants, the latter are very often shown punished for their actions. Recent years have seen a rise in humour involving gross bodily functions, especially flatulence which would have been taboo in children's comics prior to the The History of the Beano: The Story So Farwhile depictions The History of the Beano: The Story So Far corporal punishment have declined. For example, the literal slipper — the most common form of chastisement for characters such as Dennis, Minnie the Minx and Roger the Dodger — has become the name of the local chief of police Sergeant Slipper. InD. Thomson had first entered the field of boys' story The History of the Beano: The Story So Far with Adventure. Although The Vanguard folded inthe others were a great triumph and became known as "The Big Five"; they ended Amalgamated Press's near-monopoly of the British comic industry. Another success was the Fun Section of D. Thomson's Scottish weekly newspaper The Sunday Postwhich included the two strips Oor Wullie and The Broons by lead artist Dudley Watkinsas well as other funnies and various puzzles and adventure stories. This gave R. Lowthe head of children's publications at D. Thomson at the time, the idea to create another Big Five, this time of comics intended for both boys and girls and consisting mainly of 'funnies' and more lighthearted adventure and text stories. Wartime shortages also prevented the New Big Five project from being completed. The first edition of The Beano was dated 30 July[9] and sold at two pence. Thomson's other publications also suffered, with the Oor Wullie and The Broons annuals falling victim to paper and ink shortages. Paper and ink supplies were fully restored shortly after the end of hostilities and weekly publication of The Beano and The Dandy resumed in The 3,th issue of The Beano was published in January The Beano' s weekly circulation in April was 1,; it currently sells slightly over 31, copies per week. Many issues included a free gift inside, such as sweetswater pistols, whoopee masks, cardboard pistols, [13] glove puppets, and other toys. The Beano The History of the Beano: The Story So Far its 50th anniversary with a free poster that had a timeline of the comic's history on the back. Readers would send in for a 30p membership card, two badges, secret passwords, and could write to Dennis for agony aunt -type advice. A badge that a lot of readers were after was a Gnasher badge with googly eyes and a fur-like texture. The fan club was instantly popular, recalls Euan Kerr in ; "The club enrolled over new members every week, well into the 90s and there were similar numbers of letters and drawings. Thomson released a limited-editioned 80 Years boxset, which contained eight classic comics, a free Gnasher toy, a double-sided A1 poster with the roster of characters, an A4 poster for The History of the Beano: The Story So Far, and 4 A6 art cards. The Beano is so popular that it had its own section of the Chessington World of Adventures theme park, "Beanoland". This opened in and survived for a decade before sponsorship was eventually lost. Most of the major Beanoland attractions remain in operation today but have been rethemed as "Wild Asia". On 19 March Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history. The original editor was George Moonie from to ; followed by Harold Cramond from to Euan Kerr was editor from until he The History of the Beano: The Story So Far over the reins to Alan Digby in early Kerr has returned to edit BeanoMAX as of issue 2 see below. Following the retirement of Kerr, Digby took over as Editor-in-Chief of both titles. Digby retired inleaving Michael Stirling as the new editor. Upon his arrival as editor, he made many changes to The Beano. The Beano' s first major revamp was in the 50th birthday issue ofwhen the page number was increased, the comic had a wider paper style, and more colour was used throughout. Another occurred in issue 2, dated 16 Octoberwhen the whole comic was now printed in full colour, along with some new strips such as The Numskullswhich had been moved from The Beezer. No major revamps happened from then untilwhen Dennis's baby sister Bea was born. The logo was rounded and embossed but later flattened in Februaryand there were 8 extra pages. Computers were starting to be used for articles and speech bubbles, rather than the usual hand drawn ones. Since AprilThe Beano has had five revamps to help it keep up to date. The first occurred on 7 April The logo was raised using a heavy black drop shadow, and the body of the lettering and its yellow trim were separated by a subtle 3D groove effect. The website address was looped inside the "O". This logo had been used in the Beano Club for one issue in There was a record number of uncredited reprintswith the likes of Ivy the TerribleCalamity JamesLes Pretend also being reprinted. The second happened on 27 October The logo was still grooved, but was now back to the rounded style which it had from to It was quite similar to the original rounded logo fromwhich was flattened the following year. The number of reprint pages was cut from 4 to 2, but more started to appear after about a month. The price increased to 99p across the whole UK. The third was the least major revamp. The background was changed from one colour behind the logo and The History of the Beano: The Story So Far behind the Dennis strip to one single colour or a pattern, such as red and black stripes. New fonts were being used on the front cover, and the "Pocket money price" logo had been changed to a The History of the Beano: The Story So Far "WOW! No new strips were added this time, but the amount of reprints went up to 5, sometimes lowering back to 4 per week, and an extra Dennis strip was added on the inside back two pages. The fourth revamp, which happened with the issue dated 18 Octoberis the most major revamp to date. Different characters appear on the 'O' each week in a cleaner and tidier embossed logo. New headline fonts were introduced CCZoinks ; the balloon font was also changed to Cloudsplitter by Blambot. But the main change was the paper style, which had finally changed from newsprint to a glossy papermuch in the style of the inside pages of the then companion papers Dandy Xtreme and BeanoMAX. The only difference between these paper styles is the front cover, which was thicker on the Dandy Xtreme and BeanoMAXbut the same as the pages throughout in the weekly Beano. A mild revision of style accompanies this with balloon font changed to CCTimeSaleLower, an upper and lower case font and a much larger Beano logo on the cover. The paper is still glossy, but the paper stock gives it a matte feel. At the start ofthe Beano VIP pages were dropped from the comic, but the online features remain. In the issue dated 12 Octoberthere was another revamp. The comic was expanded to 36 pages, and the paper stock was made smoother. The Number 13 and The Germs strips returned as reprints. A reader's page was also reintroduced, this time titled the Menace Gallery. After two appearances, this was renamed The Treehouse. In the issue dated 28 JanuaryThe History of the Beano: The Story So Far Beano' s cover changed. The logo was now more like the logo from —, but with "The" inside the B much like later versions of the logo. The special "O"s that had appeared sometimes in the last year were also kept. In lateCraig Graham took over as Beano editor and revamped the comic. Auchterlounie soon took over writing Dennis the Menace and Gnasher also which had returned to its pre style with new characters from the TV series. Puzzle pages frequently appeared in the comic now, with Jamie Smart and Lew Stringer originally drawing the puzzles, and later on other artists such as Steve Beckett and Barrie Appleby. There is also a special page book available, The Beano Special Collectors Edition: 70 Years of Fungiving a brief history of the comic. In The Beano' s home city of Dundeea special exhibition was held at the University of Dundee featuring original artwork and other memorabilia loaned from D. Thomson — it ran until 20 September There were events for children throughout August. In the 75th Anniversary Special, The Beano had yet another revamp introducing celebrities as regular characters.