a Beano Miscellany (strips from the Beano)

Alba Avram Haziran 27, 2022

Now we have some odds and ends strips from the Beano.

First, I recently (2013) received in the mail the 50th and 60th anniversary issues of the Beano and the Dandy, and I found a menace afoot for the Beanos’ 60th anniversary issue.
The Big Eggo strip below originally appeared in the very first Beano (issue dated 30/7/38) (the scan below is from a reproduction issue for the Beanos’ 65th birthday.

the Big Eggo strip from the 2003 reproduction of the Beano No. 1

for the Beano’s 60th Anniversary issue, a certain menace wreaked havoc on Eggo’s page (notice how Dennis obscures Little Peanut in the “menaced reprint”)
From the 60th Anniversary issue , issue dated 1/8/98.

Next, It's Dennis Down Under.

A few months back, I did a preview for the Beano (which is no longer on the blog), in which Dennis the Menace and Gnasher were visiting his uncle in Australia, but it seems that this wasn’t the first time he was in our midst.

Back in 2003, Dennis found himself through more menacing means in outback Australia
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Not only Dennis and Gnasher, but Bea as well (triple trouble ;)

below is the image of the back cover.

for those of you who are too lazy to muck around to rotate the image, here is the back cover flipped here.

Now, we have a double serve of adventure strips and the first is an episode of Johnny Hawke

Comic Title: Johnny Hawke

Comic: The Beano

Artist: Andy Hutton

First Appearance: No. 1609 (19/5/73)

Final Appearance: No. 1636 (24/11/73)

Today’s episode of Johnny Hawke first appeared in the Beano, Issue dated 15/9/73

Next up, is the Q Bikes.

Comic Title: Q Bikes

Comic: The Beano

Artist: Andy Hutton

First Series run: No. 1072 (2/2/63) – No 1120 (4/1/64)

Second Series Run: No. 1152 (15/8/64) – No. 1204 (14/8/65)

Third Series run: No. 1310 (26/8/67) – No. 1288 (25/3/67)

Fourth Series run: No. 1413 (16/8/69) – 1455 (8/6/70)

fifth and final series run: No. 1495 (13/3/71) – No. 1523 (11/9/71)

Today’s episode comes from the second series, and originally appeared in the Beano on 20/2/65.

Now, I have a double post of Pansy Potter from her second series in the Beano, as the strongman’s daugter finds herself in Wonderland.

Comic Title: Pansy Potter in Wonderland

Comic: The Beano

Artist: James Clark

First Appearance: No. 369 (13/8/49)

Final Appearance: No. 652 (15/1/55)

We have two strips of Pansy in today’s post, the first originally appeared in the Beano on 31/12/49 (No. 389), while the second originally appeared in the Beano, Issue dated 11/2/50 (No. 395).

Now, an assortment of Beano Comic Library ads.

A change of pace today, as I present a mini gallery of ads for the Beano comic Library. (I posted a couple of examples of the Dandy Comic Library ads in the ComicsUK forum here)
The following examples came from the Beano Comic Libraries. the first one features Minnie the Minx and Gnasher. (Beano Comic Library No. 7)

The next one features Danny (of the Bash Street Kids fame) and Teacher from the Beano Comic Library No. 40

Next up, is Dennis and Minnie from the comic library No. 43

Finally, we have the most commonly seen twosome in the BCL ads, Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (this one from the comic library No. 71)

The Beano Puzzle Books (which more or less suceeded the regular comic libraries until the start of the Fun Size) had ads for the Dandy Cartoon Book featuring a rotational advertising cast including Billy Whizz.

Next up, is the original menace squad m as drawn by their original artists. (Davey Law, Leo Baxendale and Ken Reid)

the first strip is Dennis, first appearing in the Beano on 12/1/57.