When was the beano created

With time, various tweaks have occurred in tandem with shifts in social trends. Children were sponsored to mimic Dennis and a special page issue — guest edited by longtime Beano fan and Wallace and Gromit creator, Nick Park — was also published. Unwavering in appeal, saw the arrival of beano. We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements.

To allow us to provide a better and more tailored experience please click "OK". Sign Up. Travel Guides. Videos Beyond Hollywood Hungerlust Pioneers of love. Tori Chalmers. Two for the price of one! By the end of the war, Beano was only ten pages long, and came out every fortnight instead of every week.

The war ended in , but shortages continued. Magic would never be relaunched as a weekly comic, but the name lived on in the annuals for a few years. The characters on the cover of the Beano Annual for won't be too familiar to today's Beano fans. Most of their heroes would come along later In the Beano Annual for , a new star made his first appearance on the cover - his name was Biffo the Bear , and he would stay on the cover of Beano for the next 26 years!

If you want to see more Beano Annuals from the last 80 years, you're in luck! Check out the rest of the series The additional four pages required more resources, so prices also had to increase. David Sutherland draws The Bash Street Kids for the first time in , a job he's still doing to this day. During the s, Harry Cramond takes over editorial duties for the next two decades. On June 5th, , the Dennis and Gnasher fan club was launched. For the price of a postal order, members received a membership card and two badges in a plastic wallet.

The Dennis and Gnasher fan club enrolled over 2, new members every week till when Beano Club replaced it. The s ushered in new Beano characters like the bath-adverse Smudge, the toddler-terror Ivy the Terrible, and the critically unlucky Calamity James.

Euan Kerr also takes over editorial duties and serves as editor for two decades. In March , a terrible event unfolded that traumatises Dennis and Beano characters — Gnasher goes missing! After seven tearful weeks, Gnasher returned home with his offspring Gnipper in tow.

Towards the end of the decade, Dennis becomes a big brother when his sister Bea is born. Some style changes are made, such as a broader more saturated colour palette, glossy paper, and a new Beano character appears in the logo each week. The s were a decade of celebration. Under the leadership of Michael Stirling , Craig Graham and John Anderson present , Beano reached several milestones: In , Minnie the Minx had her 60th birthday.