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The Kings of Castaway Island 2 Jun 2013 | 11:25 pm
Jules Carr writes: I have just discovered your excellent Beezer webpages, as I have a couple of Beezers from 1958, numbers 29 and 31 from August of that year. I was researching The Kings of Castaway ...
Untitled 24 Dec 2012 | 03:00 am
The Bushwhacker Following on from his article about 'The Spacewhacker' Bob Lennox from Glasgow writes to tell us about a series that preceeded this called 'The Bushwhacker' which ran from September 1...
The Spacewhacker 24 Sep 2012 | 11:58 pm
Bob Lennox from Glasgow writes about his memories of 'The Spacewhacker' - a Beezer back page Sci-Fi serial: Kids of today seem to have all kinds of media literally at their fingertips. In my youth, i...
Crossovers 17 Apr 2011 | 10:51 am
Occasionally 'The Beezer' would crossover into other D.C.Thomson publications. This was hardly surprising as artists didn't draw exclusively for 'The Beezer'. A couple of crossover examples can be see...
Untitled 4 Oct 2010 | 06:58 am
Ken Davies from Penmon sent me this E-mail: Thanks for an excellent site which has brought back many happy memories of my weekly 'Beezer Day' - the day the comic dropped through our letter box. The p...
Social History through 'The Beezer 3' : The Mangle 17 Feb 2010 | 11:45 pm
The mangle was mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers in a sturdy frame, connected by cogs and powered by a hand crank or electrically. It was usually used to wring water from wet laundry. ...
Social History through 'The Beezer' No 2 : Tripe 8 Feb 2010 | 12:39 am
Our Man from 'The Numskulls' serves himself 'Tripe and Onions' from a canteen in 1968. Could you get Tripe and Onions from any canteen in Britain these days? I very much doubt it. Definitely food fro...
Bill Ritchie 1st August 1931 - 25th January 2010 29 Jan 2010 | 08:32 am
Bill Ritchie, prominent cartoonist with the Beezer, passed away on Monday. He was born in Glasgow and studied at the Glasow School of Art. He was the comic's longest running cartoonist working with t...
Untitled 27 Jan 2010 | 06:07 am
My collection of Beezers to date. I'm especially keen to collect the full years for 1969 - 1970 and if you have any of the issues that I'm missing do please contact me. 20 June 9th 1956,111 March 1st...
Social History through 'The Beezer' No 1 : The Recording Booth 27 Jan 2010 | 03:37 am
1) Ginger and the 'Voice Recording Booth' Here's a lovely Ginger strip a from a very early Beezer (1956 - it's first year) drawn by Dudley Watkins. In this story Ginger has been persistently kicking ...
