The Beano is a British anthology comic magazine created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson.
[1] Other long-running characters and series include Biffo the Bear, Minnie the Minx, Roger the Dodger, The Bash Street Kids, Little Plum and Billy Whizz.
The strip's main character reappeared as one of Lord Snooty's Pals in 1950.
About a man who had slept for 700 years and his reaction to the modern (1930s) world.
Name references the short story Rip Van Winkle.
The second featuring the same main character but retitled "The Beano Cinema" ran in 1951.
They were named Badger, Dicky, Dumpling, Daisy, Scarecrow and Happy.
It featured Smiffy testing out inventions sent in by Beano readers.
With an obsession for making people's dreams come true.
Title is a play on the TV show Jim'll Fix it.
About Sue, a sweet and inoffensive young girl who always gets the better of bullies Harriet and Mabel.
And 2013 The second ran from 2011 to 2012 and consisted of reprints of the first series with the title changed to 'Number 13 Beano street'.
Returned in 2014 as a Funsize Funny before being promoted to a full page strip for the third Third series ended in July 2014.
Number 13 then returned for The Beano Halloween Special 2015 for one issue only.
Due to Billy Whizz being reprinted as well, a Joke Corner appeared once in June 2008, and again in January 2009.
[7] In a couple of issues in September 2011, Ratz was the first strip inside the comic, a slot usually reserved for Dennis and Gnasher, although Dennis appeared on the cover as usual.
It was drawn by Terry Bave and Nigel Parkinson, appearing in the 1994–2003 Beezer Books and The Dandy issue 3281.
later renamed to Make me A Menace In 2012, The Beano began printing a new section called the Funsize Funnies.
After 1975, they only continued in the Annuals, but attempts were made to revive them in the regular issues in the 2000s.
This included three new series of Billy the Cat and the release of The Beano Action Special.
The longest running adventure strips are Tom Thumb (1938–1958), Jack Flash (1949–1958), Jimmy and his Magic Patch (1944–1959), The Iron Fish (1949–1967), Red Rory of the Eagles (1951–1962), General Jumbo (1953–1975), and Billy the Cat (1967–1974, 2003–2009).
Of these 7 long-running adventure strips, 3 began as Prose stories: Tom Thumb, The Iron Fish, and Red Rory.
During their lifetime in The Beano, there were 79 different prose stories, of which 15 also appeared as adventure strips: Jack of Clubs, Tom Thumb, Little Noah's Ark, The Iron Fish, Red Rory of the Eagles, Sinbad the Sailor, Little Master of the Mighty Chang, The Bird Boy, The Wily Ways of Simple Simon, The Invisible Giant, The Hungry Goodwins, Tick Tock Timothy, Smarty Smokey, Prince on the Flying Horse, and Follow the Secret Hand.
The issue following the 75th Anniversary Special in 2013 introduced a new text story called Diary of an Ugly Kid, but it disappeared later that year.
In 2014, yet another new text story appeared titled Diary of a Bash Street Kid.
Partially reprinted in 1948 under the title 'Sammy B Smart in the Land of Nod'.
Even though these strips did not win a Comic Idol competition, many of them lasted longer than a number of other Beano comic strips such as Alf Wit, which only lasted two issues.
Gordon Bennet went on to appear in The Beano a few years after coming runner-up in a Comic Idol competition.
Phone-a-Fiend and Space Kidette are the only two strips on this list that appeared as one-offs.
A similar strip appeared in the 2011 Beano Annual entitled Fiends Reunited drawn by Nick Brennan.