Help please! Specific Beano required.

[Heebee_GB]

Hi all. What a great forum!

I am trying to find a beano comic that I had a picture published when I was a child. (My kids read the Beano but dont believe me I had something published!)
It was in the club/letters section. It was during the mid to late eighties.
It was a picture of Smiffy and friend carrying a picture of two Elephants, Smiffy complaining he had the heavy end.
If you have one or know where is best to find one please let me know. I understand this is worth more to me than the average collector so I am willing to pay more than market value.
Thankyou

GB

[Jonny Whizz]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

I've only been collecting the Beano since 2002 and my oldest issue is from 1998 so I wouldn't know which issue it was. You could try and find the issue on ebay but if you don't know the date or issue number then you would probably have difficulty identifying the issue. It could pop up in a second hand stall somewhere but there is still the problem of identification.

I'm sure someone on here will have the issue and could give the date or issue number (or even the cover - I personall think this is quite a helpful way of finding an issue), then I think you would know which one to look for. Sorry if I've been a bit vague, I'm certain other members can provide more information.

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

can Peter not help on this one?

Welcome to the forum, by the way!

[Heebee_GB]

Thanks Guys. Appreciate the help and the welcome.

I have no clue what the cover was or even what year, just know I would have been around 10-12 at the time, so that puts it between 85-87. (Maybe older or younger!?!?)

Its the same old story for me, I had all my collection in the loft at home, moved out and forgot about them only to find they were skipped by my lovely parents the summer I left!

I've still got a box of the little mini comics that you could get at news stands that featured a story on just the one character. They managed to hide from the cull!

I think I may have to trawl through a comic fair. Anyone know any in the new year in the North West?

Cheers again & Merry Christmas

GB

[Raven]

I think I may have to trawl through a comic fair. Anyone know any in the new year in the North West?
GB

The next one in Manchester is on Saturday 22nd January at the Thistle Hotel, Portland Street, but it's very unlikely you'd find any 85-87 Beanos there (though you do sometimes get some early 70s ones).

Your best bet in Manchester would probably be Empire Exchange (1, Newton Street) which does tend to have boxes of old Beanos under one of the tables - can't guarantee but they're more likely to have a stack of Eighties ones.

[Heebee_GB]

Cheers raven.

[Kashgar]

Hi Heebee GB,
If I get the time later today I'll check throught the relevant issues and try to find the specific number in which your picture appeared. Can't promise but I'll do my best.
Kashgar.

[Heebee_GB]

That would be brilliant Kashgar. Much appreciated. As I said around mid to late eighties in the Letters/Members page.

Thanks

Gary

[Kashgar]

Right, I've had a look and things are not quite as straightforward as they might have appeared. But, assuming that you are Christopher Davies who once lived in Dudley in the West Midlands then the issue you are looking for is No 2205 dated 20th Oct 1984.
The drawing appeared on the Dennis the Menace Fan Club (including Gnasher's Fang Club) page but it is somewhat different to how you remember it. For a start Smiffy does not feature in the picture only two workmen (cloth cap/overalls) and the picture itself doesn't depict two elephants but rather an elephant and a mouse which makes more sense of the tag-line, uttered by the workman carrying the 'elephant end' of the picture, 'Fred! Will you take a turn at the heavy end!' It was the 'Joke of the Week' and won Master Davies (you?) a Dennis T shirt and poster.
If, despite the disparities, this is the right drawing then there are three fine copies of this issue for sale on 26pigs at the moment for the princely sum of 50p each plus postage.

[Peter Gray]

I've checked through nearly all the 1988 Beanos no joy..
I don't have 2377
2381
2383
2394
2409
2411

[Peter Gray]

Just checked 1989
don't have
2428
2430
2431
2432
2439
2441
2451
2461
2464
2466
2469
2471

no luck at the end of 1989 the joke page turns into colour....my guess it must be in 1987...

[Peter Gray]

This joke did appear as two elephants Kashgar..jokes often got repeated..
can't find my 1987 Beanos now..

[Heebee_GB]

Right, I've had a look and things are not quite as straightforward as they might have appeared. But, assuming that you are Christopher Davies who once lived in Dudley in the West Midlands then the issue you are looking for is No 2205 dated 20th Oct 1984.
The drawing appeared on the Dennis the Menace Fan Club (including Gnasher's Fang Club) page but it is somewhat different to how you remember it. For a start Smiffy does not feature in the picture only two workmen (cloth cap/overalls) and the picture itself doesn't depict two elephants but rather an elephant and a mouse which makes more sense of the tag-line, uttered by the workman carrying the 'elephant end' of the picture, 'Fred! Will you take a turn at the heavy end!' It was the 'Joke of the Week' and won Master Davies (you?) a Dennis T shirt and poster.
If, despite the disparities, this is the right drawing then there are three fine copies of this issue for sale on 26pigs at the moment for the princely sum of 50p each plus postage.

I did copy it but added a new twist with Smiffy. It was definately later than this.
Thanks for looking. The search continues..........................

[Heebee_GB]

This joke did appear as two elephants Kashgar..jokes often got repeated..
can't find my 1987 Beanos now..

Thanks for looking Peter...Jokes often get plagirised more like. I definately copied it from another comic.
1987 is looking favourite. The search continues.......

[dishes]

I've checked through nearly all the 1988 Beanos no joy..
I don't have 2377
2381
2383
2394
2409
2411

It's not in any of those

Just checked 1989
don't have
2428
2430
2431
2432
2439
2441
2451
2461
2464
2466
2469
2471

None of them either.

It wasn't in 1987 either, unless it was one of these missing issues:
2320
2321
2322
2323
2324
2325
2328
2329
2334
2339