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The best known British comic
of all time. The Beano started life a year before the commencment of World War Two. Issue Number 1 was dated July 30th 1938.
It was called, "The Beano Comic", and had Big Eggo the ostrich on the front cover. It was the companion comic to The Dandy
Comic which had started 8 months earlier, and proved extremely successful.
Although the Beano of today is pure comic strip,
back in 1938 it was very different indeed. The original 28 page issue had seven full text stories. These took up 10
of those 28 pages. There were also six stories in the traditional, narrative under picture format, with the remaining
pages experiencing the radical speech balloons only format. In fact, even some of these stories had narrative under the picture.
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