DENNIS? BATH TIME! (Beano, the)

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Product:	Beano, the
Date:	26/10/01 (313 review reads)
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Whether your way up high, or way down low, the best of the best comes in the form of the Beano! Yes - it is true! Now totally enjoyable by all the family and still only the cost of a really big Mars Bar.

Having produced over 3000 editions of this timeless classic, the Beano/Dandy studios still continue to reel off this now completely unopposed, longest ever-running children’s comic. Undisputed. And even with things like 'Pokémon' and other stuff like that, the Beano still stands firm in now the widest crowd ever seen.

Nowadays, long after the time when I spent a few pennies on it, Dennis the Menace still features, with Billie Whizz, Ivy the Terrible, Baby Bea, Gnasher and Gnipper, and this week they did a special Lord Snooty page. It still has the Beano club, with more and more jokes and pictures, yet the stories are the best bit with almost all the characters, apart from Walter, still get into trouble.

Dennis had Pie Face and Curly, and his next-door neighbour is still the Colonel. Bully Beef still beats up Chips, and if the annual is anything to go buy, every magazine should be well sought after - if you can afford it...

Recently, the company that makes the Beano have steadily put up its prices. 5 years ago, it was 30p. Now it's become 52p and if you have little kids earning pocket money, they have to save more for their comics. Also, the comic itself has shrunk in the number of pages - and I've seen a lot of these changes in magazines that are about to go bust. The end for the Beano? We'll just have to wait and see...

Advantages:

Still the big comic
Old characters
New characters
Top quality drawing without the slightest hint of manga

Disadvantages:

Steadily rising rising price
Steadily reducing reducing number of pages


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