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Post by tingramretro on Mar 8, 2017 9:59:46 GMT -5
Britain's long running war comic, Commando, has been published by DC Thomson Ltd of Dundee since July 1961, celebrated its 5000th issue this week. That's five thousand 68 page issues, with eight new issues published per month. For those unfamiliar with the tite, it's a digest sized comic with just two large panels per page, and has been telling pretty much the same kind of traditional war stories for over 55 years. These days, four out of every eight issus are reprints, but it's still one hell of an achievement, I think...
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Post by shaxper on Mar 8, 2017 12:08:28 GMT -5
I'd always assumed 2000 AD had the longest print run. This is darn impressive!
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 8, 2017 12:41:13 GMT -5
I'd always assumed 2000 AD had the longest print run. This is darn impressive! 2000 AD may have just passed its 2000th edition and its 40th birthday, but it's not even the second longest running British comic. The Beano, another DC Thomson publication, was launched on 30th July 1938, and is currently up to 3, 877 issues (it's been a weekly for most of its existence, except during WWII when paper rationing forced it to bi-weekly publication). Its sister title, the Dandy, ran from December 1937 to 4th December 2012, when the last issue was published on its 75th anniversary. At that time, Dandy was the third longest running comic in the world after Detective Comics (March 1937) and Il Giornalino (1st October 1924). Beano ranks directly after Action Comics in the number five slot . |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 12:45:11 GMT -5
I went to London in May of 1994 and spent a week there and seeing these books at a Store in Central London and I wished I had the time to buy one. Just before May 30th of that year and I had a few hours to kill and visiting a tea-house in London and seeing couple of teenage boys reading Commando and I asked them how good of those Comic Books and they said to me that these are the best realistic comic books that you can buy and they were fans of it. One of them told me that he had something like a ballpark of 400 plus books that he own and considered all of them classics. He also told me that collecting them is quite easily because everyone of these books Numbered 1 to 5000 and when you go to the store and ask the clerk do you have Commando 1315 and that's how easy for kids in Great Britain to collect these books. I even went to the internet and truth to be told that all issues are clearly marked from 1 to 5000 and counting. Below is the picture of the 5000th Issue of Commando and what tingramretro is saying in his initial post that this is quite an accomplishment to see a comic book anywhere having a 5000th issue is quite impressive.  5000th Issue of Commando. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 16:18:25 GMT -5
Cool milestone.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Mar 26, 2017 16:24:46 GMT -5
Commando was THE war comic to get as a kid,there were plenty of others published in this digest size, War Picture Library and Battle Picture Library being the other good books, but Commando was the popular book. Even now the older issues are well sought after, getting reasonable prices in online auctions.
Had plenty of friends who wouldn't touch Superman but relished their Commando books.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 26, 2017 19:55:47 GMT -5
Man, England loves war...  |
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