O, the Beano. That's one of the only britcomics that's still going, far as I know!

The boys had a lot of war comics, I think, and things like Hotspur which had some fun stories too from what I've read in my uncles' stacks in my gran's attic. The one I've nicked has a flying robot horse, so the boys did have some enviable stuff. I don't know how long Hotspur ran though, I've only looked at the girly stuff mostly!

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These days, I figure the Beano and Dandy are a terrible type of kids propaganda...by showing characters exhibiting "naughty" behaviour while also doing things such as turning invisible or powering a balloon on methane, the authors create a subconscious implication that both the ridiculous behaviour and the "naughty" behaviour are as impossible as each other.

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That sounds like a very British tactic. Though dated.

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