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Over the years The Beano has had many different strips, ranging from comic strips to adventure strips to prose stories. Prose stories were the first to go, being phased out in 1955. Adventure strips were phased out in 1975, with the last one being General Jumbo. There have been unsuccessful attempts to reintroduce adventure strips with new series of Billy the Cat and Katie in 2003, 2005 and 2009. The longest-running strip in The Beano is Dennis the Menace, which has been running for seventy years. Other long-running strips include Biffo the Bear, Minnie the Minx, Roger the Dodger, The Bash Street Kids, Little Plum and Billy Whizz. As of 2015, The Beano has been home to 371 different strips (with a further seventeen strips appearing in Comic Idol competitions and not later appearing in the comic).
This list only features strips in the weekly comic and does not list strips that only appeared once. It also includes information about the Comic Idol winners, from 1995 to 2010.
Comic strips
Source:[1]
| Strip title | Notes | Original artist | Other notable artists | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Eggo | Was the first cover star from issue 1 on 30 July 1938 until issue 326 on 10 January 1948. Returned on 7 March 2018.
(Returned For 25 issues from issue 3925 on 10 March 2018 to issue 3950 on 1 September 2018). |
Reg Carter | Lew Stringer | 1938
2018 |
1949
2018 |
| Ping the Elastic Man | Hugh McNeill | 1938 | 1940 | ||
| Brave Captain Kipper |
About an elderly sailor who was the 'diehard of the Seven Seas'. |
Torelli Bros | 1938 | 1939 | |
| Lord Snooty and his Pals | Four series. First from issue 1 on 30 July 1938 to issue 367 on 30 July 1949.
Second from issue 440 on 23 December 1950 to issue 811 on 1 February 1958. Third from issue 904 on 14 November 1959 to issue 2565 on 14 September 1991. |
Dudley Watkins | Leo Baxendale, Robert Nixon, Jimmy Glen, Ken Harrison | 1938 | 1991 |
| Whoopee Hank | Roland Davies | 1938 | 1939 | ||
| Hooky's Magic Bowler Hat | Charles Gordon | 1938 | 1940 | ||
| Wee Peem | Three series. First from issue 1 on 30 July 1938 to issue 89 on 6 April 1940.
Second entitled Wee Peem's Magic Pills ran from issue 486 on 10 November 1951 to issue 507 on 5 April 1952. Third series with the title changed to just Wee Peem ran from issue 714 on 24 March 1956 to issue 765 on 16 March 1957. |
James Jewell | Charles Griggs, Hugh Morren | 1938 | 1957 |
| Little Dead Eye Dick | Three series. First from issue 1 on 30 July 1938 to issue 20 on 10 December 1938. Second from issue 362 on 28 May 1949 to 368 on 6 August 1949.
The third and final appeared between issue 375 on 24 September 1949 and issue 410 on 27 May 1950. |
Charles Holt | 1938 | 1950 | |
| Hairy Dan | Basil Blackaller | 1938 | 1946 | ||
| Contrary Mary | Comic strip about a stubborn mule.
The strip's main character reappeared as one of Lord Snooty's Pals in 1950. |
Roland Davies | 1938 | 1940 | |
| Smiler the Sweeper | Steve Perkins | 1938 | 1938 | ||
| Helpful Henry | Eric Roberts | 1938 | 1939 | ||
| Big Fat Joe | The strip's main character reappeared as one of Lord Snooty's Pals in 1950. | Allan Morley | 1938 | 1939 | |
| Rip Van Wink |
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. Two series the first of which ran for ten years from issue 1 on 30 July 1938 to issue 336 on 29 May 1948. And the second lasted from issue 857 on 20 December 1958 to issue 866 on 21 February 1959. |
Eric Roberts | Gordon Bell | 1938 | 1959 |
| Uncle Windbag | Three series. First from issue 1 on 30 July 1938 to issue 20 on 10 December 1938. Second from issue 579 on 22 August 1953 to issue 596 on 19 December 1953.
Third ran from issue 744 on 20 October 1956 to issue 763 on 2 March 1957. |
Charles Holt | Charles Grigg, Bill Ritchie | 1938 | 1957 |
| Monkey Tricks | Reg Carter | 1938 | 1938 | ||
| Tin Can Tommy | Torelli Bros | 1938 | 1947 | ||
| Hicky the Hare | Torelli Bros | 1938 | 1939 | ||
| Good King Coke | Two series. First was from issue 21 on 10 December 1938 to issue 177 on 11 April 1942.
The second was from issue 256–300 in 1945-1946. |
Eric Roberts | 1938 | 1946 | |
| Frosty McNab | Sam Fair | 1938 | 1941 | ||
| Pansy Potter | Also appeared in Sparky.
Four series. First from issue 21 on 10 December 1938 to issue 325 on 27 December 1947. Second titled Pansy Potter in Wonderland from issue 369 on 13 August 1949 to issue 652 on 15 January 1955. Third series with original title appeared from issue 812 on 8 February 1958 to issue 854 on 29 November 1958. Fourth series from issue 2474 on 16 December 1989 to issue 2640 on 20 February 1993. |
Hugh McNeil | Basil Blackaller, Sam Fair, James Clark, Charles Grigg, Gordon Bell, Barry Glennard | 1938 | 1993 |
| Boney the Brave | Roland Davies | 1939 | 1939 | ||
| Puffing Billy | Hugh McNeill | 1939 | 1940 | ||
| Tricky Dicky Ant | Two series. First from issue 38 on 15 April 1939 to issue 62 on 30 September 1939. Second from issue 358 on 2 April 1949 to issue 374 on 17 September 1949. | Torelli Bros | James Clark, Allan Morley | 1939 | 1949 |
| The Pranks of Peanut | Charles Gordon | 1939 | 1939 | ||
| Deep Down Daddy Neptune | Basil Blackaller | 1939 | 1940 | ||
| Wily Willie Winkie | Unknown | 1939 | 1940 | ||
| Laddie Longlegs | Unknown | 1939 | 1939 | ||
| Cocky Dick | Allan Morley | 1939 | 1947 | ||
| Winken and Blinken | Sam Fair | 1940 | 1941 | ||
| Doubting Thomas | The strip's main character reappeared as one of Lord Snooty's Pals in 1950. | James Crighton | 1940 | 1942 | |
| Cinderella and the Ugly Sisters | Basil Blackaller | 1940 | 1941 | ||
| Big Heep | Basil Blackaller | 1940 | 1942 | ||
| Musso the Wop |
Featured the slapstick antics of Benito Mussolini. |
Sam Fair | 1940 | 1943 | |
| The Magic Lollipops |
Featured a boy with lollipops that would turn into what you wanted if you licked them. Two series. First was from issue 152 on 21 June 1941 to issue 306 on 5 April 1947 and the second was from issue 344 on 18 September 1948 to issue 475 on 25 August 1951. |
Allan Morley | 1941 | 1951 | |
| Handy Sandy | Two series. First appeared between issue 175 on 14 March 1942 and issue 199 on 13 February 1943, the second between 242 on 7 October 1944 and issue 255 on 7 April 1945. | Arthur Jackson | 1942 | 1945 | |
| Little Nell and Peter Pell | About a girl called Nell and her pet pelican called Peter. | Allan Morley | 1945 | 1947 | |
| Smart Alec | Basil Blackaller | 1945 | 1945 | ||
| Polly Wolly Doodle and her Great Big Poodle | The strip's main characters reappeared as one of Lord Snooty's Pals in 1950. | George Drysdale | 1946 | 1947 | |
| Sammy Shrinko | A strip about a boy with a shrink ray. | Allan Morley | 1946 | 1948 | |
| Sticky Willie | Unknown | 1946 | 1947 | ||
| Wavy Davy and his Navy | Dudley Watkins | 1947 | 1947 | ||
| Alf Wit the Ancient Brit | About a plucked young caveman who wore sandals exposing his toes as opposed to leather shoes. Only appeared in two issues, though lots of unused material was drawn up. | Bill Holroyd | 1947 | 1947 | |
| Freddy Flipperfeet | Reg Carter | 1947 | 1948 | ||
| Maxy's Taxi |
About a man called Maxy and his Taxi. |
George Drysdale | 1947 | 1951 | |
| Winnie the Witch | James Clark | 1948 | 1948 | ||
| Peter Penguin | Reg Carter | 1948 | 1949 | ||
| Biffo the Bear | Was the second cover star from issue 327 on 24 January 1948 until issue 1677 on 7 September 1974. Three series. First from issue 327 on 24 January 1948 to issue 2310 on 25 October 1986.
Second from issue 2445 on 27 May 1989 to issue 2954 on 27 February 1999. |
Dudley Watkins | David Sutherland, Jimmy Glen, Sid Burgon | 1948 | 1999 and 2013 |
| Cocky Jock | George Drysdale | 1948 | 1949 | ||
| Swanky Lanky Liz | The strip's main character reappeared as one of Lord Snooty's Pals in 1950. | Charles Holt | 1948 | 1949 | |
| Smarty Smokum | Allan Morley | 1948 | 1949 | ||
| Hairy Hugh and his Cockatoo | Basil Blackaller | 1948 | 1949 | ||
| Have-A-Go Joe | Two series. First ran from 1949 to 1951.
The second featuring the same main character but retitled "The Beano Cinema" ran in 1951.[2] |
Bill Holroyd | 1949 | 1951 | |
| Wandering Willie | Bill Holroyd | 1949 | 1949 | ||
| Ding-Dong Belle | Bill Holroyd | 1949 | 1951 | ||
| Danger! Len at Work | Bill Holroyd | 1949 | 1950 | ||
| Sammy's Super Rubber | Allan Morley | 1950 | 1951 | ||
| Dennis the Menace | The third cover star from issue 1678 on 14 September 1974. | David Law | David Sutherland, David Parkins, Nigel Parkinson, Jimmy Hansen, Tom Paterson Barrie Appleby Nigel Parkinson | 1951 | Present |
| Skinny Flint | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Joe_King_(The_Beano)