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Thursday, August 20, 2015

ACCIDENTAL RUDENESS



I recently received a small joblot of the Beano from the mid-fifties and found this early episode of When The Bell Rings in issue No. 630:




I decided to show it because of something I spotted in the first panel:




I remember reading somewhere that publishers had an internal directive warning against the use of certain innocent words in comics because they tended to look rude when printed, and ‘flick’ appears to have been one of them. It seems that in this case DCT realised it before it was too late but they were more careful when reprinting the episode in the Dandy Beano Magic Moments book nearly 40 years later:



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6 comments:

  1. Peter GrayAugust 20, 2015 at 6:59 PM

    Like the ticking bomb from Dennis Gulp!
    Love seeing Leo Baxendale's work...
    also like the Rory the eagle gag..

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  2. KidAugust 21, 2015 at 12:11 AM

    For obvious reasons, the word 'Clint' was another one, making it rather hazardous with Marvel's Hawkeye character, whose real name is Clint Barton.

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  3. TwoHeadedBoyAugust 21, 2015 at 11:37 AM

    "Snigger" ought to be in the same category, but it's still used regularly!

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  4. STEPHEN ARCHERAugust 24, 2015 at 4:32 PM

    I’m reminded of the shock, the GENUINE shock, I received around 1989 or 1990, when "dickhead" appeared in a Chalky story. Totally out of place. More innocuous was Buster’s use of "swanker" on the cover of a Reg Parlett strip about 1982; the meaning had nothing at all to do with how it’d probably be interpreted today. Innocent times…

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  5. John PittAugust 28, 2015 at 5:42 PM

    Just pleased I don't live in Scunthorpe!

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