*Humour Comics: Surprisingly – given that the weekly comic launched in 1956 – the Beezer didn’t gain the traditional Summer Special until 1973, over a decade after its senior siblings had launched the form with the joint Dandy-Beano Summer Special. Oddly, given the Beezer weekly’s A3 dimensions, the Summer Specials were actually slightly smaller all around than the regular comic – but made up for it with lots more colour and extra pages, as Ginger, Pop Dick and Harry, Colonel Blink, the Numskulls, Baby Crockett, the Badd Lads and more entertained readers old and new. We have a nice sequence of the Beezer Summer Specials – less common than their Beano and Dandy stablemates, owing, we suspect, to shorter print runs – from the very first in 1973 consecutively through to 1980, then 1982. The 1973 Special, pictured, is VG £20; prices of the others, as always, to be found in our online catalogue.