Beano achieves the highest price ever paid for a British comic

The Beano and Dandy were the first British comics to be published entirely in colour when they appeared within months of each other in 1938. With a cover price of two old pennies, this first edition Beano achieved the highest price ever paid for a British comic when bidding closed at Comic Book Postal Auctions in London last week.

Over 250,000 copies were printed originally “but only nine are known to exist today”, said auctionee…

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