The Beano Book 2000

The Beano Book/Annual #61

by D.C. Thomson & Company Limited

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Genres: Comics

144 pages, Hardcover

Published September 8, 1999

About the author

D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy and Commando comics. It also owns Friends Reunited, Parragon, and the Aberdeen Journals Group which publishes the Press and Journal, the Evening Express, the Aberdeen Citizen and the North Scotland edition of ScotAds.

The company began as a branch of the Thomson family business when William Thomson became the sole proprietor of Charles Alexander & Co., publishers of Dundee Courier and Daily Argus. In 1884, David Coupar Thomson took over the publishing business, and established it as DC Thomson in 1905. The firm flourished, and took its place as the third J in the "Three Js", the traditional summary of Dundee industry ('jam, jute and journalism'). Thomson was notable for his conservatism, vigorously opposing the introduction of trade unions into his workforce, and for refusing to employ Catholics.

Reviews

[Jane]

Just more fun from classic Beano favourites.

[Neil Wright]

Another good edition of the Beano annual

[David Erkale]

Nothing exciting in this tome. Some characters I never heard of were featured, including somebody named Les Pretend (ay yi yi) and Ballboy, to name a few. I only knew Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, maybe the Bash Street kids (if that's what they're called)? Some of the comics used a weird format where you read a row of panels across two pages instead of the usual one. Perhaps an older Beano would be better.