Beezer #1 with the free gift, a Whizz Bang is worth around £200 in mint condition.
The Beezer issues prior to 1981 were in a broadsheet format, in issue 1315, 28 March 1981, Beezer joined forces with Plug and the new comic was printed in the small size format.

BABY CROCKET This character originally appeared in a strip entitled "Wee Fella" (1946-1954) in a magazine called "The Peoples Journal", and he also appeared in the nursery comic Bimbo/Little Star (1961-1976)
SPACE PATROL Which appeared in issues 558 to 583, was apparently based on the Arthur Provis animated TV series of the same name . Anyone else out there have any other interesting snippets concerning the characters /artists /history of this vastly underated comic I would be interested to know! - Nigel Plane

A BEEZER fan was looking for info about the strip SPACE PATROL. I believe it also appeared in TV COMIC in the mid-'60s. (It's featured in their 1966 annual.) At least, I'm assuming I'm thinking of the same strip; did the BEEZER strip also have the characters Slim, Husky and Captain Dart?

TV COMIC at that time also had a strip called THE TELEGOONS, based on the classic '50s radio comedy THE GOON SHOW. (Would I lie to you?) I can't believe there are other people who remember this stuff! - James

The Beezer - which I always looked on as inferior to the Beano, although in retrospect perhaps it was not so bad. Certainly the Jellymen were brilliant. They were 6 ft tall pink octopoids with trumpet shaped hand tentacles, capable of extruding a bubble to seal in hapless pre-teens, who were nevertheless capable of outwitting them in many ways (secret dissolving solution, putting log beneath bubble etc.) They came out of the sea, and dominated this country without seeming to attract the attention of America - neat trick. Of course, my memory could be faulty in a number of ways - excess interest in trivia over an extended period could well have jammed my synapses.
And not a bit sad.
Cheers-Lynne Brown

To be honest I don't remember the Buddy comic, this may be due to my faulty memory, or maybe I never had a copy - when was it around? I do remeber many of the characters that are on your 'Buddy' page, but I thought that most of them were Beano or Dandy characters, e.g. Billy the Cat, General Jumbo, Jonah, Wolf of Kabul etc.

As far as I know the Spacewhacker and Bushwhacker were both in the Beezer in the early 60's. The vehicle may have been a Helicopter in earlier stories, but at the time I was reading (1959 - 1966 ish!), it was this 'land-yacht' article.

Also, do you remember the story concerning giant spherical pink sponges that invaded the earth and ate metal? I believe that this story was in the Topper, originally in the centre, later on the back page (I think).

Others that haunt the rear end of my memory are:

The Badd Lads; Boss, Fingers, and Knuckles - always up to no good and getting caught

The Black Sapper with his 'Mole', a burrowing machine. (I'm not sure if I'm mixing two stories there)

Danger Man with his 'Zoomar' space ship, later introducing the 'Danger Twins' two youngsters who each had a smaller version of Danger Mans' space ship and lived with him on a satellite base

The Iron Fish, originally piloted by an adult, and eventually becoming two 'Iron Fish' piloted by a boy and a girl - all the names escape me.

Robot Archie - 'nuff said

Kelly's Eye - a man called Kelly who had a mystical amulet that provided him with some sort of power and a variety of narrow escapes.

And another story that I cannot remember the name of concerning the wild west adventures of a young wild boy and his 'pet' Lynx - they used to run up and down the desert righting wrongs etc.

Also, but not in the usual comics (such as Beano, Beezer, Dandy etc,) there was the (fairly) long running story of the Trigan Empire in I think something like Look & Learn.

I can't help you or contribute anything other than memories as all my old comics are long gone, slowly followed by my brain cells.-Tim Snell

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