The costs currently shown are for standard airmail. Sadly airmail prices have increased to what we think are crazy prices.Under current Covid conditions we will email overeseas customers to advise and agree best and safest methods of delivery and costs. This year, Rupert's birthday doesn't go quite as planned when Rupert and his chums find themselves in the middle of a time-travel adventure.ĭon't Forget Rupert's Birthday - 8th of November!! It also includes a brand new story by Stuart Trotter, all about Rupert's birthday. The 2021 Annual contains a collection of carefully curated stories and activities themed around the idea of celebration, including Rupert and the Rainbow (Alfred Bestall, 1948) and Rupert and the Apple Trees (John Harrold, 1999). It has been one hundred years since the birth of Rupert Bear, and he remains as popular as ever. You may find it in the High Street or at other on-line outlets.Ĭelebrate one hundred years of Rupert Bear with this official Annual. As of today 10th November it is classified as sold out by the Publisher. This annual has seen unprecedented demand especially over Rupert's Birthday weekend. Overseas postage - Europe £5.50 and Rest of the world £8.75.
Rupert and the Christmas Box by John Harrold Rupert and the Carved Stick by Alfred Bestall They Really Do Love Each Other: In Rupert and the Dragon Race, Bill and Toby have one of. Rupert and the Noisy Firework by John Harrold A 1990s adaptation of the childrens comic strip Rupert Bear. where it hatches out to become a baby dragon, which endangers the Chinese. Spot the Difference based on Rupert and the Coral Crown The Rupert Bear strips in the Daily Express were begun by Mary Tourtel in 1920. Rupert and the Coral Crown by Stuart Trotter Rupert And The Mulp Gulper by John Harrold Much better value indeed! A consequence is a price increase, the first in many years. This year's offering by popular demand is 50 pages bigger than the previous handful of years, virtually returning it's time old and favoured size. RAW DATA FOLLOWS.The 80th Annual for our favourite bear! In this year's annual Rupert discovers a pirate shipwreck, and a chest that contains a valuable treasure, Can he return the treasure to it's rightful owner? All my searching hasn't yielded another such page - if there was one, it would have made my data collection far easier and quicker. I do so, not only to make my research reproducible, but also because this may now be the only place on the internet with all Rupert story titles gathered on a single page.
#Rupert the bear and the dragon race series#
It's perhaps not necessary for me to include all my raw data in this answer. A series of misadventures necessitates a trek by Rupert and Pong Ping to the Valley of Dragons, on a rescue mission to save pals Edward, Bill, and Toby from. Since my second source only covers the '30s to '90s, all data from 2000 onwards is taken from the first source alone. I've cross-referenced the two against each other to check for consistency in the data below, brackets in story titles denote small differences between the two sources (usually minor things such as uncertain hyphenation) while entire stories in brackets were listed in one source but not the other (there are only two of these). My data was taken from this site (which has a page for each year, listing that year's story titles and sometimes extra info such as facsimile editions) and this site (which has a page for each decade, listing the story titles from every year in that decade). (I didn't check the earlier Tourtel stories, since the form was so different then that repetition would be impossible: at most, a post-Bestall story might be based on the same idea as a Tourtel story, and inspiration is different from wholesale copy-pasting.) The above conclusions were drawn from examining raw data in the form of all titles of all Rupert stories since the start of modern Rupert in 1936. I'm glad I got out when I did, so that Rupert can remain a treasured childhood memory without being spoiled. Apparently Rupert annuals have gone so far downhill that they're mostly surviving on reruns. In fact, since 2010, there has been only one new story each year, the rest being recycled older stories. The year I remember (2006) was when repetition of old stories really became a trend. Since the earliest annual I owned was 1949, this explains why I never noticed repetition until recently. But before the year I remember (2006), there were only seven years in which old stories were repeated (1953, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988), and the only time any story from later than 1940 was repeated was for the 50th anniversary special (1986), which made a point of containing one story from each decade.
The first time the Rupert Annuals repeated a story was in 1953.
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