*Humour Comics: Continuing our policy of providing more information for Beano and Dandy, we have  new issues of Dandy in this week from 1948. There was a lot going on that year, and we have several issues featuring strip and prose debuts, alongside New Year, Fireworks, 11th Birthday and Christmas issues. Details of debuts as follows: 1st Brave Young Black-Hoof by Dudley Watkins in #360 (also New Year issue), 1st Big Bonehead in #368, 1st Raggy Muffin and 1st Plum Macduff in #378, 1st Hotcha the Hottentot in #380, 1st Slave of the Magic Lamp in #381, 1st Croaker Holds The Clue in #382.
PICTURED: DANDY 1948
#360 VG £60 New Year issue
#384 GD £50 11th birthday issue
#385 GD £50 Christmas issue