The Topper Book
The Topper Book was a comic book published from 1954 to 1994, to tie in with the children's comic The Topper. The first twelve editions were undated, and later books were published with the date of the following year on the cover, since they were traditionally published in the autumn and in time for Christmas.
Originally called The Topper Book with no year at the end, the book was printed in landscape format instead of traditional vertically shaped portrait formats like The Beano Annual and The Dandy Annual. It changed to vertical in 1960. Although The Topper merged with The Beezer in 1990, the annual continued for a few years afterwards. The 1994 annual, published in 1993, was the last one.
Annuals
The books were published the autumn before with the 1955 annual published in Autumn 1954. Price in shillings and (old) pence with one shilling equal to 5p.
- 1955. 23 different characters in five strips with the last being a giant panda. Price 7/-
- 1956. Dartboard design with Topper characters in middle circle and birds, cars, etc. in outer circle. Price 7/-
- 1957. Twenty five squares, each containing a different character or object. Price 7/-
- 1958. Diamond like diagonal shapes, each containing a character or object. Price 7/-
- 1959. Captain Bungle pointing rifle at four animals in distance. Elephant, giraffe, hippo and zebra. Monkey sitting on rifle about to fire catapult at him. Price 7/-
- 1960. Title is diagonal with heads of Topper characters above and below it. Price 7/-
- 1961. Bandit Figaro (Mexican) leaning against cactus tree and laughing while reading Topper book. Horse laughing with him. Price 7/6
- 1962. A number of heads of characters with names below them. Beryl the Peril top right and Foxy bottom right. Price 7/6
- 1963. Julius Cheeser sitting in deck chair amidst drawing pins. Tom Cat clutching his foot which has four drawing pins sticking in it. Heads of five Topper characters above title. Price 7/6
- 1964. Foxy with hands above his head. Rifle pointed at his back held by chicken and balloon. Price 7/6
- 1965. Two pictures. Figaro holding up a cowboy while another cowboy is hiding behind a rock and lighting a firework. Price 7/6
- 1966. Four pictures showing Tom Cat and Julius Cheeser and a fire-cracker. Price 7/6
See also
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- The Beano
- Commando
- Fun Section in The Sunday Post
- Adventure
- Bullet
- Buddy
- Champ
- Commando
- The Crunch
- The Hornet
- The Hotspur
- The Rover
- The Skipper
- Spike
- Starblazer
- The Vanguard
- The Victor
- Warlord
- The Wizard
- Bunty
- Judy
- Mandy
- Nikki
- The Beano
- The Beezer
- Buzz
- Classics from the Comics
- Cracker
- The Dandy
- EPIC Magazine
- Fun Size Comics
- Hoot
- The Magic Comic
- Nutty
- Plug
- Sparky
- The Topper
- Bimbo
- The Magic Comic
- Twinkle
- Alf Tupper
- Baby Crockett
- Bananaman
- The Bash Street Kids
- Beryl the Peril
- Black Bob
- Biffo the Bear
- Big Eggo
- The Broons
- Calamity James
- Cuddles and Dimples
- Dennis the Menace
- Desperate Dan
- Ginger
- Gnasher
- Ivy the Terrible
- Jonah
- Keyhole Kate
- Korky the Cat
- Little Plum
- Lord Snooty
- Matt Braddock
- Mickey the Monkey
- Minnie the Minx
- Nero and Zero
- The Numskulls
- Oor Wullie
- Pansy Potter
- Send for Kelly
- Roger the Dodger
- Tricky Dicky
- Willy Nilly
- Winker Watson
- Wilson the Wonder Athlete
- Wolf of Kabul
- The Beano Annual
- The Beezer Book
- The Bimbo Book
- The Dandy Annual
- The Hotspur Book for Boys
- The Sparky Book
- The Topper Book
- The Victor Book for Boys
- Warlord Book for Boys
- Barrie Appleby
- Nigel Auchterlounie
- Leo Baxendale
- Gordon Bell
- Nick Brennan
- Paddy Brennan
- Sid Burgon
- Reg Carter
- Wilbur Dawbarn
- Karl Dixon
- The Etherington Brothers
- Hunt Emerson
- Andy Fanton
- John Geering
- Barry Glennard
- Charles Grigg
- Ken H. Harrison
- Laura Howell
- Diego Jourdan
- Malcolm Judge
- David Law
- Trevor Metcalfe
- Allan Morley
- David Mostyn
- Vic Neill
- Robert Nixon
- Gary Northfield
- Nigel Parkinson
- Tom Paterson
- Jim Petrie
- Ken Reid
- Bill Ritchie
- David Parkins
- Jon Rushby
- Jamie Smart
- Lew Stringer
- David Sutherland
- Kev F. Sutherland
- Dudley D. Watkins
- Stevie White
- Mike Chinn
- Gilbert Lawford Dalton
- Alan Grant
- Ian Gray
- R. D. Low
- Grant Morrison
- John Radford
- Cavan Scott
- John Smith
- List of D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd publications
- List of AP, Fleetway and IPC Comics publications
- List of Beano comic strips
- List of Dandy comic strips
- List of Topper comic strips
- List of Beezer comic strips
- List of Beezer and Topper comic strips
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