This week marked the 70th. Anniversary of the Beano.

Do you remember reading it in the late 1940's/early 1950's?

All those years ago? :o

I did, and ultimately so my own children (just a gleam in my eye at that time :) ) as the years passed by.

Here's an article published in the Telegraph Online today, written by Leo Baxendale, who went on to become one of the writers/cartoonists who made the Beano a great children's comic. :)

Leo Baxendale and the Beano (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2487298/Beano-celebrates-70th-anniversary-of-a-youth-without-menace.html)

I remember reading the Beano and others I've forgotten. Which comic had the young lad who on leaving home in the morning became a time traveller, the strip always ended with the lad coming home & asking "whats for tea Ma". There was another comic which had comic strips featuring Radio personalities.Childrens hour on the radio with Uncle Mac? ending the programme with "Goodnight, children, everywhere"

I read it in the 60s along with The Dandy. I wonder how much theyve changed since then.

i used to go to my cousins to read em,then we started having em delivered,so my visits to my cousins got less regular,then they started having the beezer instead,so we used to swap when we had read our own comic.

Pardon my age but I am old enough to remember the first issue of the Beano,and I am still a fan,our two young grandsons are avid readers and one thing can be guaranteed when they are reading it,absolute silence,and I am not embarrassed to say when they are otherwise engaged Grandad gets a crafty read.
The young time traveller was "Our Ernie" in the Knockout comic,and the comic featuring the radio stars of the day was Radio Fun,as Film Fun featured the comic film stars of the day.

Nice to read the article. I reckon me and my pals in Dykes Hall Road could have rivalled the Bash Street Kids, with all the scrapes we got into. Biffo the Bear and Dennis the Menace were my favourites. Looked forward to it every Thursday. Memories...

Dandy, Beano, Knockout, Wizard and then there was the 'Film Fun' and 'Radio Fun'. Obviously the latter depicted real life characters from 'Radio' and the 'Cinema'. A few that come to mind, Laurel and Hardy and some of the Cowboy stars of that era, Tommy Handley and all his 'on air' personalities, Colonel Chinstrap, Funf, (this is Funf, speaking,) Mrs Mopp, (can I doo' you now sir?) Who remembers the Canadian Stuart McPherson who did the 'color' commentries for a lot of sporting events on B.B.C. (especially boxing,) he was characterized in the Radio Fun as Stuart McPherson, Secret Agent, or some similar title, Peter Brough (Ventriliquist) and his dummy Archie Andrews were also in the 'weekly comic'. Now, it's got me thinking, did the two 'papers' alternate every other week?

Remember Claude and Cyril on 'Itma'? 'To you Claud,' 'No, to you Cyril.' Some kind of handymen I guess. And Mona Lott, 'Being so cheerful that keeps me goin.'
'Dont forget the diver,sir,' dont forget the diver.' Colonel Chinstrap, 'I dont mind if I do.'
And others.

Texas you have done it again, in my haste to mention a few of the people that were featured in the Radio Fun and Film Fun, I inadvertanly misnamed the Colonel, you are quite right, it was Chinstrap. I think Abbot and Costello were also another pair featured in the Film Fun. Of course there were a lot of other 'stars' depicted in both comics also.

I do believe you're right about 'Dandy' and 'Beano' coming out on alternate weeks Fleetwood. Big Eggo on the front of the 'Beano' and 'Korky the Cat' (or was it 'Kat') on the front of the Dandy.
But to get back to 'Radio Fun' and 'Itma', there were other characterizations. I cant remember exactly but wasn't there one called Sam something or other? And another called Frisby Dyke, a character from Manchester who's catchphrase was, in adenoidal tones, 'If you've never been to Manchester, you've never lived.' The adenoids being caused by the amount of rain which supposedly falls on Manchester. Clever thinking that.

In the 1950s the Dandy and Beano came out every week (the Dandy on Tuesdays and the Beano on Thursdays) but during the war they came out on alternate weeks as an austerity measure - this site http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/ComicInformationPages/DandyPages/DandyHomePage.asp gives a few details:

Before The Dandy's second birthday, War had broken out across Europe. City children were evacuated to the country and rationing, including paper, was in force. In fact, it wasn't until two years into the war that both The Dandy and The Beano were affected. 6th September 1941 was the last weekly issue of The Dandy, and it wasn't to be published that way again until the 30th July 1949 issue. During this time, it alternated weekly publication with The Beano.

I read the Dandy and Beano in the 1960's (from about 1962 to 1967 I guess) when I went round to my Aunties on Vickers Road every Wednesday lunchtime. Wonderful stuff! In those days on the cover of the Dandy I think it was Korky the Kat and the Beano had Desperate Dan. I loved 'em!

It's really immaterial now, it was the the Radio and Film Fun I was querying wether they alternated weekly.

All these cartoon characters keep drifting in and out of the memory. Anybody remember Lord Snooty and his Pals? I'm sure he was featured in the 'Beano.'
As for the Radio Fun, I remember Jewell and Warris, Derek Roy, Reg (proper poorly) Dixon, and Arthur English (Prince of the Wideboys).

Yes, Lord Snooty was one of the Beano characters - here he is on artist Dudley Watkins' "tribute" page http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.paulmorris.co.uk/beano/strips/snootylogo.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.paulmorris.co.uk/beano/artists/watkins.htm&h=169&w=221&sz=22&hl=en&start=12&tbnid=PJ9r1ACD_PyqNM:&tbnh=82&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522lord%2Bsnooty%2522%26gbv%3D2%26h l%3Den

Interesting, the tribute page, beechnut. Thanks. One name I remember on there, 'Strang the Terrible', can't visualize it though. Did he carry a big club or something?