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Issue: Beano Summer Special #1973
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Publisher: FlagD.C. Thomson
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Indicia Publisher: D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd
On Sale Date: 1973
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Pages: 32
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Price: £0.10 GBP
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Content Items: 26 (21 stories, 2 covers)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour
Dimensions: tabloid-size
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Binding: saddle-stitched
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Look out, Gnasher!
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Cover "cliff hanger" continues on back cover.
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Pup Parade
The Bash Street Pups
Ah, yes! I sent for you to tell you to unroll this paper.
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Story concludes inside back cover.
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Minnie the Minx; Dad; Aquarium official
Wahoo! I love swimming, readers!
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Jimmy Glen
Jimmy Glen
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humorous
Grandpa
Grandpa; His dad
Yawn! I'm off on the old folks' outing to the seaside.
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Gnasher
Gnasher; Lady Maude Pye; Policeman
I'm looking for a holiday job - ah! That'll do!
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Jimmy Glen
Jimmy Glen
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childrens, humorous
Lord Snooty; Joe; Snitch; Snatch; Scrapper Smith; Thomas
We've got a week's holiday, pals. What'll we do?
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None of Snooty's female pals feature in this story.
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humorous, western
Baby- Face Finlayson
Baby-Face Finlayson; Jessie James; Sid the Kid; "Marsh Mallow (Sheriff)
My bandit pals and I are playing cricket on the beach today.
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adventure, superhero
Billy the Cat and Katie
William Grange; Kathleen Grange; Nick Clarke; Will Richards
Look - two people climbing the tower!
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Nick Clarke and Will Richards are bank robbers.
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The Nibblers
Whiskers (cat); The Nibblers (mice)
Huh! Anything Billy the Cat can do, I, Whiskers the cat, can do also!
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Ma; Pa; Teddy; Captain Scuttle
Have the cruise of a life-time aboard the paddle steamer, "Lee K. Tubb" - good food always served!
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Billy Whizz; Dad
Wow! It's a sandstorm!
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Biffo; Buster
I'm all set for a spot of crab fishing!
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Pup Parade
The Bash Street Pups; Bash Street Kids [Danny; Fatty; Smiffy; Sidney; Toots; Spotty; Wilfred]
Our masters come back from holiday today - they always bring us presents.
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Pick of the pops
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One large illustration featuring most of the Beano characters clutching photos and rushing toward a large tent holding a photo exhibition. Three photos are highlighted and are of Jimmy Osmond, Donny Osmond and Randy Jackson.
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Minnie the Minx
Pay! I can't send these soppy postcards to my pals!
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humorous
The McTickles
Chief Jock; Morag; Murdo
McGulp! Our best McHaggis isn't in very good condition!
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The Nibblers
Porky; Whiskers (Porky's cat); The Nibblers (mice)
What's that noise?
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Billy Whizz; Travel agent
Brr! It's cold for this time of the year.
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The Best of Pals!
Dennis the Menace; Danny; Fatty; Little Plum
The four named characters are each holding up a fan letter to themselves from another Beano character.
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Dennis the Menace
Dennis the Menace; Gnasher; Dad; Mum; Granny
Don't dawdle, Granny!
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childrens, humorous
Roger the Dodger; Mum; Uncle Fred
Roger, help me dry the dishes, then you can cut the lawn, and then...
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Little Plum
Little Plum; Chiefy
I'm bound to win the Cactus Gulch fishing contest with my super equipment.
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Little Plum and Chiefy are members of the native American Smellyfeet tribe.
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Jimmy Glen
Jimmy Glen
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childrens, humorous
Lord Snooty; Cyril; Joe; Snitch; Snatch; Scrapper Smith; Thomas; Aunt Mat
Hello, readers! We're waiting to welcome my stuck-up Cousin, Cyril!
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None of Snooty's female pals feature in this story.
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Teacher; Teacher's wife; Headmaster; Cuthbert Cringeworthy; Bash Street Kids [Danny; Plug; Fatty; Smiffy; Wilfred; Spotty]
I'm going to find out all about the super holidays that are available!
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Pup Parade
Bash Street Pups
Oh well, better late than never!
The pups are pasting up a poster that reads "Welcome to the Beano Summer Special" the joke being that it is on the second to last page.
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Dennis the Menace; Gnasher; Biffo; Teacher; Danny; Plug; Smiffy; Wilfred; Cuthbert Cringeworthy; Grandpa; Chief Jock McTickle
Well saved, Nipper!
A crab nips Gnasher making him jump off the train tracks just as the train approaches.
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