“Christmas, Easter, April Fool’s and fireworks issues also have a premium,” he says, as do a full year of copies (a set from 1958 sold for £3,050), and 1940 #1 Beano annuals (one just went for £4,265). For example, a 5 increase would be how much money per week Is this better than a monthly increase Encourage your child to save a percentage of their pocket. Phillips sold a #1 Beano – one of 25 in known existence – in particularly good condition for £17,300 in 2015, and reckons that it would fetch over £20,000 today. It’s hugely humorous and brilliant stuff,” laughs Phillips. “Lord Snooty lifted the building with a couple of Spitfires and hid it in a forest. Categories: Furniture, Antique/Vintage, Home Decor. needs restoration - see pictures Measures 46 High x 49 Wide x 20 Deep. The Beano broke the fourth wall and addressed the threat directly. Cherry / Walnut 5 Drawer Dresser with, graduated drawers with original bracket feet. Issue #135 from 1941, recently sold for £135, has the coverline, “LOOK INSIDE – AND SEE LORD SNOOTY JAPE THE NAZIS!” The Nazi high command was apparently so incensed that it threatened to bomb DC Thomson’s Dundee headquarters, says Malcolm Phillips of Comic Book Auctions.
There’s something for everyone in the collection, whether you want a vintage 5-drawer chest in a sleek modern style or something with a more traditional, formal look. In addition to providing you with ample space to stash your sweaters, pants, socks and more, these dressers feature vintage styles worth drooling over. Wartime propaganda issues are also keenly collected. Your clothing storage problems can be solved in an instant with an antique 5-drawer dresser. A tatty copy is currently going for £400 on eBay. “ Beano #452 was the first to feature Dennis the Menace and is hugely popular that’s easily a £500 comic, or £1,000 if it’s in really good condition,” says McAlpine. The first appearance of legendary characters, such as Minnie the Minx and the Bash Street Kids, can command prices of several hundreds of pounds. No Beano is worth one-hundredth as much, due in no small part to its massive circulation: its April 1950 issue sold nearly two million copies, ensuring supply largely matches demand. Never have so many images of school dinners, catapults and go-karts appeared in one place, all in the magazine’s beautifully drawn yet drab suburban setting – which always seems to be on the brink of collapse. About this item Small profile pill box that is made of chrome-plated metal with a BPA-free internal plastic divider. Where superhero comics are all about defeating the bad guys and upholding the law, The Beano is about breaking the rules imaginatively, says Andy Holden, curator of an exhibition opening at Somerset House this month celebrating the comic’s anarchic spirit. First published in July 1938 by Scottish publishing house DC Thompson, the comic magazine’s riot of mischief and mayhem has a legion of fervent collectors and admirers: David Bowie selected it among his 100 favourite books, alongside Madame Bovary and The Iliad, while sculptor Phyllida Barlow, who represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2017, and Nick Park, Oscar-winning creator of Wallace and Gromit, cite it as inspiration.
From pocket money essential to second-world-war propagandist, The Beano has been an icon of British childhoods for more than 80 years.
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