16th January 1988 – Nikki

Description

A popular vintage comic in excellent condition. This edition is dated 16th January 1988.

Nikki

By 1974, DC Thomson’s girls’ imprints had fallen off somewhat (Bunty, Judy, Mandy, and Debbie had a combined circulation of 750,000 that year) but remained the market leader.

Whether in imitation or not, British girls’ magazines of this era typically bore a single female given name as the title; besides the DC Thompson imprints, other magazines were Tracy, Nikki, Sandi, Diana, Sally, June, Tammy, Lindy, and Penny.

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D C Thomson

DC Thomson is a Scottish publishing and television production company best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy, and Commando comics. It also owns the Aberdeen Journals Group which publishes the Press and Journal. It was a significant shareholder in the former ITV company Southern Television.

Through its subsidiary DC Thomson Family History the company owns several websites including the now defunct social media site Friends Reunited and Findmypast. They are based in Dundee, Scotland.

History

The company began as a branch of the Thomson family business when William Thomson became the sole proprietor of Charles Alexander & Company, publishers of Dundee Courier and Daily Argus. In 1884, David Coupar Thomson took over the publishing business, and established it as D.C. Thomson in 1905. The firm flourished, and took its place as the third J in the “Three Js”, the traditional summary of Dundee industry (‘jam, jute and journalism’).

Thomson was notable for his conservatism, vigorously opposing the introduction of trade unions into his workforce, and for refusing to employ Catholics. Among historians of popular culture, the firm has “excited a good deal of interest precisely because it has always shrouded its activities in secrecy … [it] has never allowed scholars access to its archives, and has declined to participate in exhibitions of juvenile literature.”

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