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Letter: True stories

Published 18 December 1999

From Alex Dow

Your correspondent Keith Franklin asks if the Patent Office assumes
The Beano comic is not fictional
(4 December, p 53).
Recently in
the local branch of a national bookstore I found this year’s The Beano
Annual displayed under the heading “New Non-fiction”. The Patent
Office—and the bookseller—may know something the rest of us don’t.

Cowdenbeath, Fife

Issue no. 2217 published 18 December 1999

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