Sunday, 14 September 2025

The Monsters Are Due on Beano Street

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According to The Official History of the Beano , the above strip -- from issue #2346, dated 04/07/87 -- is the first appearance of Number 13...
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Wednesday, 10 September 2025

The Most Esoteric Game Over in Interactive Fiction

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In the superhero-themed Fighting Fantasy book, Appointment with F.E.A.R. , you can get mugged whilst in your civilian identity. The cool ai...
Sunday, 24 August 2025

Triple Dog Dare

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Last time, I was looking at Bananaman strips from the late 90s adapting episodes of the 80s TV series , which were drawn by John Geering --...
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Thursday, 21 August 2025

The Crystal Ship

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As you enter the harbour square, you pass a line of wagons laden with heavy machinery, which are queueing to enter a dry dock. There, illum...
Saturday, 16 August 2025

Bananamanrama

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In 1983, Bananaman -- at the time appearing in D. C. Thomson's weekly humour anthology comic Nutty -- made his onscreen debut in a ser...
Sunday, 10 August 2025

Sub-Optimal

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The six  Transformers Adventure Game Books were released between 1985 and 1987 by Corgi. Gamebooks based on licensed properties are rarely ...
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Sunday, 27 July 2025

B&T

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In 1990, two of D. C. Thomson's remaining weekly humour titles, the Beezer (running since 1956) and the Topper (running since 1953) mer...
Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Just Ask For International Broadcasts Of South By South East

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You remember that thing that sort of took over this blog for a period of several years where I was looking for (and eventualy found) the mis...