The Dandy comic is shutting

[TopGun]

The Dandy is about to print its last edition in December but is hinting that it will take the comic online. Apparently they only sell 8,000 copies nowadays.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-19284222

 

I never read the Dandy much, being more engrossed with the Beano.

 

Comics I also read when a bit older were:

 

Scoop - great footie comic

Bullet - good war comic

2000AD - great sci-fi

[Hatch]

I'm shocked they sell that many, what with tinternet and everything these days.

 

My youth was spent reading Roy of The Rovers and Tiger.

Couldn't wait for every Saturday morning to get them delivered.

[SNSUN]

Very sad but I guess it's a sign of the times. As a youngster I read both the Beano and the Dandy but The Beano was always my favourite. Soon enough I switched allegiance to Buster, which has also since closed down.

[Dimond Geezer]

I used to read The Beezer & swap with my mate who took The Beano. Would sometimes buy bundles of Whizzer & Chips & Krazy at jumble sales, the latter had a character called Pongo Snodgrass, I often think of the little snot-filled chap whenever I hear Robert Snodgrass mentioned. As I got older I moved onto Roy Of The Rovers, I would look forward to the issue just before the footy season started because it would include a wall-chart, where you could record all the results & scorers & plot your teams progess throughout the season.

 

Oh, nearly forgot about the Commando war comic books, would buy 2 of these & ROTR with my paper-round money

Edited 16 August, 2012 by Dimond Geezer
Commando

[The Cat]

My son has a subscription to the Beano. It's pretty good to be fair and most of the strips are still funny. He's bought the Dandy a few times but it's quite strange now and I'm not really sure what market it's aimed at these days so I can't say I'm surprised it's going to shut.

 

Looks like they'll be moving a few of the characters over to the Beano which will make that stronger too.

 

I was a real Roy of the Rovers fan as a kid, it was pretty much the only magazine I bought. Rick Stewart was my hero.

[Cascadia Saint]

Did anyone like the dandy more than the beano? I can't remember anyone.

 

I used to get bought both, always read the dandy second. Then asked for the transformers comic instead a few years later...

[JPTCount]

apparently kids who read the dandy are more likely to turn out gay.

 

maybe that's what did it for them?

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

Another Beano Boy here - The Bash Street Kids being my personal fav. Until my adolescent bloodlust made collecting 'Commando' and 'Battle Picture Library' a minor obsession.

[CB Fry]

Whizzer and Chips ****ed all over that jock sh it e. And Buster. And, especially, Oink! which was sensational.