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The Beano Book.
 
Publisher: D C Thompson & Co Ltd, Dundee;
Date of Publication: 1939
Stock Code: 4913
 
[1939]. Quarto. 128pp.The VERY FIRST BEANO ANNUAL. Illustrated throughout, including title page in navy and red and numerous cartoon strips. Publishers’ quarter blue pictorial cloth with yellow pictorial paper-covered boards showing Big Eggo and friends on a see-saw. A square solid copy with no missing pages. Covers rubbed and bumped to edge with wear at corners and spine tips and cracked joints with associated surface loss. Spine creased and lower board lightly surface soiled but upper board bright. Rear hinge weak. Internally a very clean copy with no annotations, inscriptions or colouring in. Minor browning and foxing, mainly to margins; toning to edges.
 
The first Beano annual, produced for the 1939 Christmas market just as World War II broke out. Features many well-loved characters including Big Eggo, Pansy Potter and Lord Snooty. The first Beano annual is unsurprisingly highly sought-after and only a limited number are known to have survived.
 
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