The Beezer #476

Feb 1965 · D.C. Thomson · 5D [0-0-5 GBP]

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“The Paratroopers, Mini-Size, Give a Crook a Big Surprise.”

In "The Paratroopers, Mini-Size, Give a Crook a Big Surprise," a restless child’s vivid dream about candy-eating robots and comic-feeding machines spills into waking life when a passing dustman in a dustbin seems straight out of his nightmare. Fleeing in fright with his prized comics and sweets, he hides under the stairs—only to find himself in a situation far stranger than any dream. Illustrated with playful precision by Bill Ritchie and brought to life in whimsical detail on the cover by Dudley D. Watkins, this 1965 issue of The Beezer delivers a charmingly surreal moment of childhood imagination meeting the everyday.

artist, inker Bill Ritchie · cover Dudley D. Watkins

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artist, inker Bill Ritchie

cover pencils, inks Dudley D. Watkins

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Baby has a bad dream about robots who eat sweets and feed comics to their robot animals, he wakes up and sees the dustman carrying a dustbin and thinks its a robot and runs off with his comics and sweets to hide in the cupboard under the stairs.

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