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The Beano Book
Rasher's turned green.: The Beano Bugs: Cuthbert Cringeworthy shows us his collection of insect versions of Beano characters.: Mad About Bugs: Double-page spread. Cuthbert picks Christmas pressies for his insects.: The Beano Bugs -
Bea
refused to tell him what was going on, he refused to appear in the next week's Beano. After various Beano characters tried to take the place of Dennis, he came back and his parents -
List of Beezer comic strips
in 1993 with a few of the characters going on to appear in two other comics The Beano and The Dandy. See also[] The Beano, List of Beano comic strips, List of Beano comic strips -
List of Topper comic strips
Topper, this new comic featured a number of characters from The Topper and ended in 1993 with a few of the characters going on to appear in two other comics The Beano and The Dandy. -
List of Beezer and Topper comic strips
as the Beezer and Topper. This new comic ended in 1993 after 153 issues. A number of characters from this comic went on to appear in either The Beano or The Dandy. The following is -
The Dandy
The Dandy (originally known more specifically as The Dandy Comic, and also known for a period as The Dandy Xtreme) is a weekly comic that has been published by DC Thomson since 1937. It came -
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
packet when Law was struggling to visualise him, the strip first appeared in issue 452 of The Beano, dated March 17, 1951. The central character in the strip is a troublemaking boy in a stripy -
The Bash Street Kids
The strip now known as "The Bash Street Kids" (originally titled "When the Bell Rings") is a strip that runs in The Beano. It was created by Leo Baxendale. Pleased with his work on "Little -
Bimbo
Bimbo was a nursery comic published by DC Thomson from 1961 to 1972. Amongst its features were strips starring characters from other DC Thomson titles, tweaked somewhat for a younger audience. Strips included... "Baby Crockett -
Sparky
Sparky (The Sparky Comic from 1973) was a weekly humour comic published by DC Thomson, aimed at a slightly younger audience than The Beano and The Dandy, from 23 January 1965 to 9 July 1977 -
The DFC
The DFC was a weekly comic published by Random House from 2008 to 2009. The DFC was the brainchild of publisher David Fickling. "I have always loved comics and wanted to make them," he said -
Ken Reid (1919-1987)
Ken Reid (b. Manchester, 18 December 1919; d. Pendlebury, Greater Manchester, 2 February 1987) suffered from a tubercular hip at the age of nine. He left school at fourteen and won a scholarship to Salford -
Minnie the Minx
Minnie the Minx is a major character in The Beano. Leo Baxendale agreed to create a female version of Dennis the Menace at the suggestion of Beano editor George Moonie. The character was designed to -
Knock-Out
editor Percy Clarke and sub-editor Leonard Matthews in 1939 to compete with The Dandy and The Beano, launched by DC Thomson in 1937 and 1938 respectively. Like its rivals, it featured a mixture of -
Count Dracula
Count Dracula is a character created by Bram Stoker for his 1897 novel Dracula. A reclusive Transylvanian aristocrat who is revealed to be a vampire, Dracula is the most famous vampire in fiction and has -
Leo Baxendale
Leo Baxendale (b. Preston, Lancashire, 27 October 1930) is the creator of numerous characters in children's humour comics, including "Minnie the Minx" and "The Bash Street Kids" for The Beano. After doing National Service -
Hugh McNeill (1910-1979)
of Art. He drew cartoons for DC Thomson's Topical Times, starting in 1927, and when The Beano was launched in 1938, he was part of its opening line-up with "Ping the Elastic Man -
Bob Monkhouse (1928-2003)
collaborator Denis Gifford, and from which he was expelled. While still at school, he wrote for The Beano and The Dandy, and drew for The Hotspur, The Wizard and Adventure. After leaving school, he drew -
Charles Grigg (1916-2013)
Charles Grigg was born in the English midlands on 23 November 1916. He left school at 14 and became an apprentice woodworker at the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. He later worked worked as -
John Geering (1941-1999)
John Keith Geering was born in Warrington, Lancashire, on 9 March 1941. He displayed a talent for art at school, but after he left at 16, his first job was as a junior clerk in -
Eric Roberts (1910-1982)
1937-48) from the first issue of DC Thomson's The Dandy. He also drew for The Beano, including "Helpful Henry", "Rip Van Wink" (1938-48) and "Good King Coke" (1939-46). During the Second -
Little Plum
Little Plum (full title Little Plum, Your Redskin Chum) is a comic strip from The Beano that first appeared in 1953. It was first drawn by Leo Baxendale. Leo Baxendale was inspired to create the -
S. K. Perkins (1889-1966)
He also drew "The Adventures of Elsie, Winnie and Johnny" (1936), based on a radio serial, for Ovaltiney's Own Comic. He then returned to DC Thomson, drawing "Smiley the Sweeper" (1938) for The Beano. -
Ratz
Howell inking in his pencils from October 2006 onwards and on occasion drawing the strip. In the Beano Annual 2008, Ratz is changed to "Its a Ratz Life!" because the usual Ratz characters were not -
Ken Hunter (c. 1916-2008)
80s. Strips he worked on included: "Wee Davie and the Great Big Giant" (1952-57) for The Beano; "Big Fat Boko" (1953-67), "Jeff and Bill Star in the kingdom of Zero" (1957-61), "Big
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