WebFind: DC Thomson Comics Gift Cards

By John Freeman on September 10, 2018

Here’s a nifty idea for a birthday or Christmas stocking filler for a comics fan – comics gift cards, on offer from the DC Thomson web shop for all their titles, including Beano and Commando.

(I came across these after DCT sent me a reminder about their Beano 80th Anniversary Box set, which of course we’ve already covered, but the latest shop promotion offers a potted history of the title, although it does sadly perpetuate the myth that Beano editors were put on a Nazi death list during World War Two, which downthetubes contributor Jeremy Briggs robustly torpedoed several years back on Bear Alley).

Just like gift cards you can buy in high street stores, these offer the chance to introduce a reader to a comic. The Commando card, for example, priced £20, enables someone to get 12 issues of the war comic, the Beano card 15 issues of the weekly humour title.

It’s a great little present that you can stick inside a birthday or Christmas card.

• Check out the whole DC Thomson comics-related range, which includes annuals, calendars, t-shirts and more here on the publisher web shop

• Happy Birthday to The Beano at 80 – comic creators and Beano fans reveal their favourite parts of the long-running title, and we give you a guide to the terrific anniversary box set

• Read Phil Shrimpton’s Potted History of the Beano here on downthetubes

• Often repeated claims the editor of The Beano was on a Nazi death list were debunked on Bear Alley by Jeremy Briggs in 2010. (Jeremy also wrote a companion piece for downthetubes speculating on how British comics might have looked if the Nazis had won the war, which you can find here)

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.