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Issue: The Beezer and Topper #1
Publication Date: September 1990
 
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Publisher: FlagD.C. Thomson
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Indicia Publisher: D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd
On Sale Date: 09/18/1990
Volume:
Pages: 32
ISBN:
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Price: £0.35 GBP
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Content Items: 30 (21 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour
Dimensions: UK A4
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Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
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Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Geezer; Beryl the Peril; Sting
Meet loads of comic stars inside!
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous
Buzzing
Sting
Boy finds rare animal in his sitting room!
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Page is in the form of a newspaper front page. Has a three panel Sting strip at the bottom.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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childrens, humorous
Geezer
Geezer; Nathaniel Q. Sprockett (inventor pal); robot mum; Geezer's mum
My inventor pal is making something for me.
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childrens, humorous
The Banana Bunch
Brainy; Dopey; Lanky; Fatty; Tiny; Brainy's little sister
My pals and I live here in Banana Crescent. I'm brainy and we're...
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humorous
What to do if...
...your teacher suddenly turns into a Venezuelan Fruit Bat!
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Two panel gag strip.
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Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Inside Story
Brainy Numskull
This week, Brainy Numskull, that's me, is going to show you how your super new Beezer and Topper is put together!
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Sequence of photos (with cartoons) showing how the comic is created with humorous remarks from Brainy Numskull.
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humorous
The Numskulls
Numskulls [Brainy; Specky; Luggy; Grubby; Nutty]; Boy they live in; teacher
Hi, readers! I'm Brainy Numskull!
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1.5
Numskulls are small people who live inside and control their humans' bodies.
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humorous
Great moments in history with the Histori-Skulls
Lord Horatio Nelson; two Numskulls
It's Lord Nelson.
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0.5
Three panel strip showing Numskulls operating nside historic characters.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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childrens, humorous
Blinky
Colin (Blinky); his mum; optician; Scotsman
Hurry up, Young Colin. You're getting your eyes tested today!
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A child version of Colonel Blink.
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Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous
St. Ivel Fiendish Feet
boy; girl; mum
Won't be a minute dear...
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Advert for St. Ivel Fiendish Feet yoghurts. The pots had scary faces on them and a pair of feet as a base.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
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childrens, historical, humorous
Adrian the Barbarian
Adrian the Barbarian; Adrian's mum; Prince Blackrat
Know ye that Prince Blackrat the First is coming!
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childrens, humorous
Baby Crockett
Baby Crockett; mum; waiter
Come on, Baby - we're eating out today.
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childrens, humorous
Pop, Dick and Harry
Pop; Dick; Harry
I'm Dick and this is my brother, Harry.
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anthropomorphic, humorous
Sting
Sting (bee); teacher; Beryl the Peril
At Beezer Hive School -
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Beryl appears in a black and white sequence at the bottom to take us into the Topper section of the comic.
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childrens, humorous
Beryl the Peril
Beryl; mum; zookeeper
Present for you, Beryl!
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Start of the Topper section and includes the Topper masthead.
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humorous, science fiction
Robohog
Truck driver; hedgehog; two male scientists
Deep in the country -
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A hedgehog is flattened by a truck, two passing scientist take him to their lab where they conduct six million dollar man style technology on it and make it a super robo hedgehog.
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Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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anthropomorphic
Colonel L. E. Phant; boy and girl
Now pay attention!
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Advert for Shredded Wheat and Shreddies breakfast cereal featuring a save the elephant campaign free comic.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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childrens, humorous
Fred's bed
Fred; mum; antique Andy (antique shop owner)
You be careful, young Fred - or you're going...
Fred wrecks his bed so mum takes him to buy a new one. She decides it's best to buy a cheap one from an antique shop. At home one of Fred's marbles rolls under the bed, when Fred crawls under the bed he finds it takes him back in time to prehistoric times. Each week he will go back to different times in history.
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Mickey's monkey puzzles
Mickey the Monkey; Jason Donovan (photo)
Since this is the first "Beezer and Topper",E
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Picture puzzle and word puzzle.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Sting
Free next week the 'Screamin' Demon'
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0.25
Advert for free gift with issue #2.
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childrens, humorous
Tricky Dicky
Tricky Dicky; Mrs Brown
I've been hired to put on on a magic act at a kiddies' birthday party.
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0.75
Find the Coin!

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Dicky's Trick
Tricky Dicky
1. Your pals each put a coin in a hat.
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0.25
Three picture strip showing how to do a magic trick.
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childrens, humorous
Beryl the Peril
Beryl; doorman; Editor (of Beezer and Topper)
I demand to see the editor!
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humorous, mystery
Kelly the defective detective
Nick Kelly; Roger the dodger; Nick's sidekick (not named)
Yahoo! It's the phone knocking!
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Roger the dodger guests from the Beano.
Mum Knows Best

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous
Topper Tales
Sam; Sam's mum
My name's Sam,E
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A mixture of sequential art and text in boxes.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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I say...I say...I say
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Reader's page with photos and cartoons.
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anthropomorphic, humorous
Scaredy Cat
Scared Cat; his guardian angel cat
Oops! Didn't realise we'd started -
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1
Subtitled the cat who has lost eight of his nine lives!
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous
Crazy Daisy
Colonel Drink; Beryl the pizza; Adrian the vegetarian; Julius Geezer; Pop, Dick and Hairy; Mickey the Punky
Happy new year, Martians!
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Miscellaneous
0.8
Various Beezer and Topper characters drawn in a style based on puns of their names.
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Preview (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Adrian the Barbarian; Beryl the Peril; Dopey (Banana Bunch)
That's who you won't see in NEXT WEEK'S fun-filled BEEZER and TOPPER, Reader.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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childrens, humorous
Des Troy
Desmond Troy (Des); dad; mum
This is Mr and Mrs Troy who live in Greytown -
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Miscellaneous
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