We've stayed true to the original summer special so that our readers can really find out what The Beano was like more than 30 years ago. "We hope Matt Smith and the whole Doctor Who team love this ...

They're as British as Marmite, cricket and fish ‘n' chips. They've seen off the Second World War, more than a few recessions and the dawn of computer games and DVDs.

Don't forget Dandy - the Beano's sister comic - either, as these can also be worth a pretty penny. Currently there are listings for rare editions costing up to £7,000, but there's no guarantees ...

The Beano will include a reprint of its 1981 summer special inside the latest edition after a Doctor Who episode featured the Doctor reading the classic comic.

I used to read all the main UK children's comics – Buster, Dandy, Whizzer And Chips, Beano, Topper etc. I'm sure I just absorbed everything in there by osmosis.

The Dandy Beano Summer Special from 1963, combining stories from popular British weekly anthologies Dandy and The Beano (here we see the British Dennis The Menace from The Beano about assualt the ...

The Beano has reprinted a special edition of the comic that was recently used in Doctor Who. Matt Smith was seen reading the 1981 summer special of the long-running publication in a recent episode ...

The publisher of one of the world's longest-running children's comics, The Dandy, has confirmed plans to stop printing the title. DC Thomson said printing would end with a special edition released ...

A first edition of The Dandy from 1937, complete with the free gift of a whistle, would sell for more than £20,000. The Beano started in 1938: 10 years ago a copy of the first edition sold for ...

A first-class tribute to our comic heroes: Old favourites from The Beano and The Dandy will be used on new set of stamps. By JANE BORLAnD. Published: 22:13 EDT, 18 March 2012 | Updated: 07:28 EDT ...

In the week of 22 April, 1950 The Dandy sold a phenomenal 2,033,094 copies with The Beano only slightly behind at 1,974,072. The 1950s was a golden age for British comics.