Beano Comic Library

    (D.C. Thomson, 1982-Present)
©1997 D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.

The Beano is a legendary kids comic published in Britain by D.C. Thomson & Co. Having run for over half a century, it presented a huge library of jokes and gag strips which are mined in these digest-sized “comic libraries.”

A typical digest consisted of a single story, with each panel enlarged to take up an entire page. In this manner, even a relatively short story can fill sixty or so pages. This also made the stories more accessible to very young readers who might have trouble with the panel-to-panel format of regular comics.
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