BEANO. The Beano Book, [No. 1.] Dundee, Manchester and London: D.C.

BEANO. The Beano Book, [No. 1.] Dundee, Manchester and London: D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd., [1940]. No. 1, 4to (243 x 182mm.) Comic illustrations in red, blue and black. (Browning, occasional minor staining, hand-colouring to one illustration.) Original pictorial boards featuring Beano characters (extremities and joints rubbed, minor dust-soiling). Note: scarce. The first Beano annual published just after the start of the war, following the first publication of ‘The Beano’ as a weekly comic in July 1938. Contains Lord Snooty and His Pals, Big Eggo and Pansy Potter. Dennis the Menace made his first appearance in 1951 and his dog, Gnasher, arrived in print in 1968. Provenance: Vera Young [altered to ‘B. Young’] (pencil name to ownership leaf).

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