The Beano timeline
This is a timeline of events concerning the long-running D. C. Thomson & Co. comic The Beano.
Timeline
Year | Date | Event | References |
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1938 | July 30 | The first ever issue of The Beano goes into print with Big Eggo as the cover star. | |
1951 | March 17 | Issue 452, Dennis the Menace makes his first appearance. | |
1952 | Dennis the Menace's arch-enemy Walter the Softy is introduced. | ||
1953 | December 19 | Issue 596, Minnie the Minx makes her first appearance. | |
1954 | February 13 | Issue 604, The Bash Street Kids are introduced under the title When the Bell Rings. | |
1959 | George Moonie is succeeded as Beano editor by Harold Cramond | ||
1961 | David Sutherland begins drawing The Bash Street Kids, something he still does to this very day. | ||
1964 | May 16 | Billy Whizz is introduced. | |
1968 | August 31 | Issue 1363, Gnasher makes his first appearance. | |
1974 | September 14 | Dennis the Menace becomes the incumbent cover star of the Beano taking over from Biffo the Bear. | |
1975 | October 18 | Issue 1735, Ball Boy is introduced. | |
1984 | October | Harold Cramond retires as Beano editor and is succeeded by Euan Kerr. | |
1986 | April | Gnasher goes missing, which leaves Dennis distraught, prompting a nation-wide search for the beloved cartoon canine. | |
1993 | The Beano Video (aka Beano All-Stars) is launched on VHS, which animates the Beano characters for the first time. | ||
1994 | The Beano Videostars is released as a follow up to the Beano Video. | ||
1998 | October 17 | Issue 2395, Dennis the Menace's sister Bea is born. | |
2000 | January 1 | Issue 2998, The Beano's New Millennium special, is released. Two weeks later, the comic would reach its 3000th issue. | |
2000 | January 15 | The Beano celebrates its 3000th issue. | |
2001 | January 13 | Issue 3052, Minnie the Minx's artist Jim Petrie retires after almost 40 years, with his 2000th and last Minnie strip featured in the issue. | [1] |
2001 | July 19 | Bronze statues of Minnie the Minx and Desperate Dan, measured at approximately 8ft, are unveiled in Dundee city centre. | [2] |
2002 | January 5 | Issue 3105, Freddie Fear: Son of a Witch is introduced. | |
2003 | A Beano-Dandy crossover strip, Dandy Days in Beanotown is published in The Dandy due to the rivalry between the two comics. | ||
2007 | March 14 | Wayne's in Pain is announced as the newest Bash Street Kid. | |
2007 | October 27 | Issue 3404, Laura Howell becomes The Beano's very first female artist after her strip Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green makes its debut. | |
2008 | In the comic's biggest revamp the paper style finally changed from newsprint to a glossy paper, much in the style of the inside pages of the then companion papers Dandy Xtreme and BeanoMAX. | ||
2009 | August 29 | Dennis the Menace and Gnasher are revamped to coincide with the new animated series. | |
2012 | December 4 | The Beano becomes the last weekly humour anthology comic after The Dandy prints its final edition having recently celebrated 75 years. | |
2013 | July 24 | Issue 3695, The Beano's 75th anniversary issues is released, featuring a handful of celebrities including Sir Alex Ferguson, David Beckham, will.i.am, Bruce Forsyth, and the Dandy's very own Harry Hill. | |
2013 | December 4 | Long-serving artist Charles Grigg dies aged 97. | |
2014 | February 26 | A real-life Bash Street is unveiled in Dundee to celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Bash Street Kids. | [3] |
2014 | August 26 | Artist Jim Petrie dies aged 82. | |
2014 | December 1 | The Dennis the Menace Minecraft mod is launched. | |