Cant be sure about the Beezer (far too posh for me)

in the mid-90s.

I had a similar conundrum when I were a lad. In our house, there was a book based around Only Fools and Horses, titled "Del Boy's Guide to Making Millions" or something similar. The front cover was a picture of Del Boy holding the book, which in turn had a picture of Del holding the book, which in turn had a picture of Del holding the book.

This used to baffle and amuse me for, literally, minutes at a time.

and are still on the go I think. Not sure if the numskulls have numskulls but other Beano characters do, except Plug, who has Plugskulls...

then the Beezer and Topper, then in the Beano. I read it in the Beezer days and loved the idea.

are the only belongings I have hung on to since I left home that I still have. Issues from about 1978 to 1982. Never read them. They are locked away in a scuffed old school briefcase that has ancient, peeling Panini football sticker swapsies all over it.

They have followed me from house to house to house, abroad and here for well over 20 years now.

Odd, now I come to think of it.

in the children's bit of the Sunday Times for a long time as well.

I am happy to be corrected about the numskulls being in the beano.

My era was about 61 - 69.

Edit - Can never remember if it was Dandy or Beano, do any of the massive remember the following

The stinging swarm

Danger Bus

General Jumbos model army

The crimson ball

I loved all of those.

Eee, when I were a lad, jumpers for goalposts etc, etc, etc.

Numbskulls started in the Beezer and moved to the Beano.
Here's a Beezer from 1962

The head being ripped apart by a shotgun blast, small men running everywhere being chased and devoured by rabid dogs.

Action! was class.

Of course, my mum shat blood when she had a flick through one I'd left on my bedroom floor. Shortly after that, the comic fell out of circulation. I suspect more than a few mothers had found out about it.

of the beezer they became the contents of a young boys head..abandoning the bald bloke whom they had denied any meaningful relationships since the early sixties..(at the same time col. blink bacame a tubby youth called "blinky")
the traditionalist in me went apeshit...
shortly after beezer folded and they went over to the beano
on the same subject i was horrified when d.c. thomson of dundee axed the "classics from the comics" monthly collection at the end of last year..

I still occasionally imagine little dudes in my brain dept getting printouts of answers to technical issues that I'm dealing with at work!

No idea of the timeline of things like this as I tended to get old comic annuals passed down to me of the likes of Beano, Beezer, Whizzer n Chips and so forth. The stories didn't seem particularly dated in the old 60s and 70s annuals I was given..and indeed were probably reprinted in later issues in the 80s anyway.
I was quite happy reading stories where kids went to school in stripey caps, teachers wore mortar boards, catapults, canes and steaming pies left on windowsils. It never concerned me that this didn't reflect the reality of the late 70s/early 80s. I always thought it rather unseemly when my fave comics tried to get all modern with photo stories and posters of Kajagoogoo etc

The Beano isn't, and never was, all-killer-no-filler. Clever though they were, I would put The Numskulls in the middle of the pack at a Shed Seven/Echobelly level.

The undoubted elite:

Minnie the Minx
Dennis the Menace
The Bash Street Kids
The Three Bears
Little Plum
Derek the Sheep

General Jumbo and Billy the Cat were not meant to be funny, so I thought they belonged in the more wholesome, jolly-hockey-sticks world of The Dandy.

he should be top of any beano top ten...
as luckless bastards go he's up there with many of my pop favourites..

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