Line #1 ComicBook/TheBeezer

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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_beezer_book_1977.jpg]]
2	''The Beezer'' was a {{British comic\|s}} which started in 1956. Originally A3 size, which was much larger than its stablemates (ComicBook/TheBeano and ComicBook/TheDandy from the same publisher, Creator/DCThomson), the comic ended up going A4 size in 1981.
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4	The comic absorbed two other comics in the 1970s: ''Plug'', a comic whose main character was Plug from ''The Bash Street Kids'' (a strip in ''ComicBook/TheBeano''), and Comicbook/{{Cracker}}. ''The Beezer'' itself would eventually [[ComicsMerger merged]] with ''ComicBook/TheTopper'' in 1990 to form ''The Beezer and Topper'', which lasted until 1993; however, ''The Beezer Book'' (annual bumper editions) continued until the 2003 edition and ''The Beezer Holiday Special'' until 2002.
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6	The comic's most popular - and longest running - creations include "[[MobileSuitHuman The Numskulls]]", "[[BlindMistake Colonel Blink]]", "[[EnfantTerrible Baby Crockett]]", "[[StupidCrooks The Badd Lads]]", "Ginger", "[[PapaWolf Pop]], [[TricksterTwins Dick and Harry]]" and "The Banana Bunch".
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8	!!This comic (and its strips) provide examples of:
9	* BlindMistake: Colonel Blink
10	* ComicsMerger: ''The Beezer'' absorbed ''Cracker'' and ''Plug'', and later merged with ''The Topper''.
11	* {{Expy}}: "The Banana Bunch" was originally this to "The Bash Street Kids", even by the same artist. However, they later went in a different direction.
12	* MobileSuitHuman: The Numskulls were about a bunch of little people called Numskulls, who lived inside a man whom they called Our Man and sort of controlled him. This even spawned a subgenre of sorts with numerous expies, including "The Nervs" in ''Smash'' and "Ill Will and the Germs" in ''ComicBook/TheBeano''.
13	* RecursiveReality: In one annual, the Numskulls wonder if they are also 'worked' by even smaller Numskulls inside their own heads, but the Editor hastily ends the annual before they can find out.
14	* StupidEvil: The Badd Lads were a bunch of comically useless criminals.
15	* YoungerAndHipper: When the Beezer and Topper merged, Our Man from the Numskulls was replaced with a boy called Edd, and Colonel Blink became a young boy called Blinky. (Later, Colonel Blink made occasional cameos in Blinky's strip, usually in annuals, and was said to be his uncle, making Blinky a LegacyCharacter).

Context ComicBook / TheBeezer