The Beano
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- This article is about the comic. For other uses, see Beano.
There have been several long-running strips over the years. The longest-running strip in the comic as of 2006 is Dennis and Gnasher (overtaking Lord Snooty), which first appeared (under the name Dennis the Menace) in 1951. Other famous strips include The Bash Street Kids, Minnie the Minx, and Roger the Dodger. Lord Snooty appeared in the very first issue, but disappeared from the comic in 1990.
There are frequent fictional crossovers between the strips, with most of the characters living in the fictional town of Beanotown.
A first issue of The Beano sold for £12,100 on 16 March 2004, which was at the time the highest price ever paid for a British comic at an auction. The current highest price is £20,350 which was paid for the first issue of The Dandy on 7 September 2004.
The Beano is also the second longest running comic, the first being The Dandy which is also made by D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.
List of Beano comic strips
Current strips
- Ball Boy
- The Bash Street Kids
- Bash Street Kids - Singled Out
- Bea
- Big Brad Wolf
- Billy Whizz
- Calamity James
- Colin the Vet
- Crazy for Daisy
- Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
- Derek the Sheep (occasionally)
- Freddie Fear Son of a Witch
- Gnasher and Gnipper
- Ivy the Terrible
- Joe Jitsu
- Les Pretend He's Round the Bend/The Little Kid with the BIG Imagination (occasionally)
- Little Plum
- Minnie the Minx
- Nicky Nutjob Son of a mad inventor
- The Numskulls (from The Beezer)
- Robbie Rebel Nobody Tells Him What to Do!
- Roger the Dodger
Past strips
- 2-Gun Tony The King Street Cowboy
- Alf Wit The Ancient Brit
- Baby Face Finlayson The Cutest Bandit in the West!/The Cutest Bandit Around
- The Belles of St. Lemons
- Biffo the Bear (later abbreviated to "Biffo")
- Big Eggo
- Big Fat Joe
- Billy the Cat and Katie (originally just "Billy the Cat")
- Black Bun
- Brave Captain Kipper
- Camp Cosmos
- Chip the Stone Age Boy
- Cocky Dick He's Smart and Slick
- Colonel Crackpot's Circus
- Come to Beanotown
- The Country Cuzzins - a group of hillbillys, similar to The Bash Street Kids, plus a goat
- Christmas Carole
- Danny on a Dolphin
- Danny's Nanny
- Dean's Dino
- Ding-Dong Belle
- Dog's Breakfast T.V.
- Dr Beastly's Tales of the Slightly Unpleasant
- Emlyn the Gremlin
- Even Steven He's Out for Revenge
- The Fix-It Twins
- Freddy Flipper-Feet
- General Jumbo ("Admiral Jumbo" for a while)
- The Germs with Ill Will
- Gnasher's Tale
- Go, Granny, Go!
- Good King Coke He's Stoney Broke
- Gordon Benett
- Gordon Gnome
- Grandpa
- Hairy Dan
- Handy Sandy
- Hard-Nut the Nigger
- Have a Go Jo
- Helpful Henry
- Hot Foot
- Hugh Dunnit
- Inspector Horse and Jocky
- The Iron Fish
- Jack Flash
- Jacky Daw with Maw and Paw
- Jimmy and his Magic Patch
- Jinx - a boarding school girl who jinxes everything she is involved in, similarly to Jonah
- Joe King
- Johnny Hawk
- Jonah
- Karate Sid
- Kat and Kanary
- Little Larry
- Little Monkey
- Little Nell and Peter Pell
- Lord Snooty
- The Magic Lollipops
- Matt Hatter
- Maxy's Taxi
- The McTickles
- Minder Bird
- Multy the Millionaire
- The Nibblers
- Number 13
- Pansy Potter The Strongman's Daughter
- Peter the Penguin
- Phone-a-Fiend
- Ping the Elastic Man
- Polly Wolly Doodle And Her Great Big Poodle
- Prince Whoopee
- Punch and Jimmy - two warring brothers
- Pup Parade
- The Q-Bikes
- Rasher
- Richard the Lion
- Ricky Grainger He Laughs at Danger
- Rip Van Wink He's 700 years old!
- Sammy Shrinko
- The Shipwrecked Circus
- Simply Smiffy
- Smart Alec
- Smudge
- The Sort Out Squad
- Space Kidette
- Splodge The Naughtiest, Cleverest (he thinks) Goblin in Beanotown Woods (from The Topper)
- Sticky Willie
- Swanky Lanky Liz
- Sweet Sue
- Sydd
- The Three Bears
- Tim Traveller
- Tin-Can Tommy The Clockwork Boy
- Tom, Dick and Sally
- Trash Can Ally
- Tricky Dicky (from The Topper)
- Uncle Windbag He Tells Tall Tales
- Vic Volcano
- Wavy Davy and his Navy
- Wee Ben Nevis
- Wee Peem
- Whoopee Hank The Slap-Dash Sheriff
- Winnie the Witch
- The Yeti with Betty
- Zap Zodiac
Trivia
The Beano comic takes its name from the English English word beano which can be loosely interpreted as a fun time. For further discussion of the origin of this word, see [The Meaning Of Beano]. Private Eye refers to The Spectator as "The Hasbeano", with the Spectator's editor Boris Johnson becoming "Boris the Menace".The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton album from the John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers band, is called "The Beano Album" by Eric Clapton fans, because on the album cover photo he is reading a Beano comic.
Reece Shearsmith, known for being in The League of Gentlemen once wrote into The Beano, saying that he had lost his current copy. It ended up as the star prize.
See also
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