Quote: David Bussell @ October 31 2010, 12:13 PM BSTI can't make head nor tail of this question but I am curious to know as to whether Tim Walker was a Whizzer or a Chip.
Actually you were either a Whizz-Kid or a Chip-Ite, fact fans.
When did the "Dandy" become "Viz"? Page 2
Quote: Lee Henman @ October 31 2010, 12:25 PM BSTActually you were either a Whizz-Kid or a Chip-Ite, fact fans.
Picky f**ker. Classic Chip-Ite behaviour.
I honestly can't recall...
I didn't read comics.
I was neither a whizer nor a chip. I Bought it for the free gift and never again. I found even then its forced triteness tiresome. I did however get "Sparky" every week. My big brother got Dandy and the younger got a mystery broadsheet comic...I for get its name now.
It might have been unfashionable, but I was a Beezer man. My favourite were The Numskulls, little people who lived in peoples brains.
Quote: sidecar jon @ October 30 2010, 3:21 PM BSTWizer and chips, first edition had a cardboard "banger" on the cover I remember...Sort of a triangular thing folded over with a paper flap, when brought smartly down in the air it made a satisfying bang...
oooh...he said flap!...and ..satisying bang!
Its almost porn.
Whizzer and Chips...Gus the Gorilla 'You can't make a monkey out of Gus!'
I've heard they've relaunched Dandy with "popular culture" characters like Simon Cowell with his high waisted trousers.
Yes - it does sound like they're trying to make it a bit like Viz with these kind of references but I haven't read it yet but was meaning to.
Quote: chipolata @ October 31 2010, 7:08 PM BSTIt might have been unfashionable, but I was a Beezer man. My favourite were The Numskulls, little people who lived in peoples brains.
I remember The Numskulls! It was like the sitcom Herman's Head, only about a thousand times better. 
I used to read the Adult Beezer
It had a strip called Numbskull Nights which followed the adventures of the ones who controlled the cock & balls.
Which reminds me.
Which comic had Danny's Tranny?
And why was it so different from the subsequent movie.
The reason why the Dandy's changing is because of poor sales. That's what I read. Not a terriblly interesting answer, but he did ask.
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ November 1 2010, 1:02 AM BSTWhich reminds me.
Which comic had Danny's Tranny?
Danny's Tranny I'm pretty sure was Beezer as well, but I get a bit confused because Beezer did a Times and went from broadsheet to tabloid whilst I was reading it. Pretty sure Danny's Tranny was in the latter format if not both.
I loved the broadsheet version, it somehow felt special because it was twice as big as the other comics. The only way of reading it was laying on the floor.
Yeah probably my favourite comic as well, although I read all of them. Along with Buster, Beezer must have inspired more Viz strips than any other comic. Numskulls was very good, as was Colonel Blimp and Young Sid. Ginger was the cover strip and he really was more irritating than Chris Evans, as hard as that is to believe!
Quote: David Bussell @ October 31 2010, 12:36 PM BSTPicky f**ker. Classic Chip-Ite behaviour.
Quote: sidecar jon @ October 31 2010, 5:21 PM BSTMy big brother got Dandy and the younger got a mystery broadsheet comic...I for get its name now.
That would've been either Beezer or The Topper, both great comics. Not sure if The Topper stayed the distance, it seemed to vanish at some point in the early 70s but Beezer carried on and like I said, became a tabloid. I think they must've shared the same puishing house, (was it D.C.Thompson?) because some of the artwork in the strips was similar and I believe one or two strips crossed over from The Topper to Beezer, which may explain its demise I don't know, maybe they thought they were too similar and one had to go. The Topper was definitely the earlier comic, so maybe it transformed into the Beezer, it's possible.
Topper & Beezer were two different comics.
And Topper definitely went on into the eighties.
Not sure what merged with what in the end though.