LIKE much of Britain’s school-age population, your correspondent grew up in Beanotown. It was a land of glee, grub, burps and splats; of pranks, pies and catapults. It was a place where itching powder ...

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A rare edition of a Beano book, found in 2010 at a charity shop in St Andrews. Andrew Milligan/PA Archive/PA Images The British economy was in a volatile state 80 years ago, as the world teetered on ...

For 80 years, the Beano has been the nation’s pre-eminent children’s comic, said Harry de Quetteville in The Daily Telegraph. Since its launch in 1938, the much-loved title has introduced generations ...