The History of the Beano: The Story So Far - Morris Heggie

The Beano, as I'm sure we all know, is a humorous kids' comic published in Scotland. I used to read it when I was a kid - I was in Dennis the Menace's fan club and everything. Turns out the comic was 70 years old last year, and this oversized hardback has been published to cash in. (Seventy years is a pretty arbitrary anniversary. Seventy-five, sure, but seventy?) I bought it for a quick burst of nostalgia (albeit pricey nostalgia - this costs £25). I'd forgotten just how unfunny The Beano actually was - I was even aware of that when I was a child. I was always slightly bemused by the fiction the comic laboriously maintained, that The Beano was the funniest ...  Read the complete review