The Beano – Britain’s most rebellious children's comic - is turning 80 today.
First created as a companion paper to The Dandy, the comic was loved by kids all over the world, selling almost two million copies a week in the 1950s.
But while its larger than life characters including Dennis The Menace, Minnie The Minx and The Bash Street Kids may not have aged over the years, they certainly have changed.
Preferred the Beano to the Dandy as it had a better class of mischief. Roger the Dodger, Minnie the Minx, the Bash Street Kids and of course the legend known as Dennis the Menace.
'That Government is best which governs least' - Henry David Thoreau. Tomas, ta tú mo ghrá, mo chroí, mo agam agus mo rogha, a chara. Go deo.
I'm amazed the PC Brigade still allow these publications, there must be something they find offensive. yawn . . .
I bet they heavily censor the stories these days just to avoid such upset. I can remember one line in a Minnie the Minx cartoon c. 1972 where her Dad said something along the lines of "A woman's place is in the home", ie kitchen as Mum was busy cooking while he was reading the paper. No way would that be allowed these days, rightly so.