The Beano Summer Special

The Beano Summer Special is like The Beano with extra comic strips, which as its name suggest was released during the summer months and cost more than the regular comics. This special first started in 1963 with a joint Beano-Dandy summer special and then in 1964 the first Beano summer special appeared. These ran continually until 2003 when they were replaced by Beano specials, which was a series of monthly special Beanos including a Summer Special released in the Summer. In 2006, the Beano specials was discontinued in favour of BeanoMAX. However, in 2011 an ultimate summer special exclusive to WHSmith was released and so was the The Beano 3-D Summer Annual 2011. Unlike the traditional Beano of the time, this edition of the comic had a more colourful appearance to it. The front cover of these comics often had one picture which had a caption encouraging the reader to turn to the rear cover to see what happens next. As well as Beano Summer Specials there were also Bash Street Kids Summer Specials.

Year	Cover Price	Front Cover Contents
1973	10 Pence	Biffo the Bear riding a train with Bash Street kids as passengers, whilst Gnasher sleeping on track with Dennis the Menace looking on.
1974	12 Pence	Gnasher racing to catch a green/white/red beach ball. Front Cover says "Is Gnasher going to ruin the game?" Back Cover says "Ha! Ha! Gnasher just wants to join in the fun!"
1975	15 Pence	Bash street kids partaking in a wheel barrow race on the beach.
1977	20 Pence	Dennis the Menace and Gnasher jumping from high board with the Bash Street Kids looking on
1978	22 Pence	Dennis the Menace and Gnasher busking on the beach.
1980	28 Pence	Dennis the Menace and Gnasher in tree attempting to steal food from Bash Street Kids picnic
1981	32 Pence	Dennis the Menace and Gnasher at swimming pool riding a dolphin water pistoling the Bash Street Kids
1982	32 Pence	Dennis the Menace, Gnasher and the Bash Street Kids taking part in a raft race
1983	40 Pence	Dennis the Menace and Gnasher wind surfing.
1984	43 Pence	Dennis the Menace, Gnasher and the Bash Street Kids on beach taking part in a sack race.
1985	48 Pence	Dennis the Menace, Gnasher pushing Walter the Softy on the swing.
1988	65 Pence	Dennis the Menace, Gnasher bouncing on a Bouncy Castle. This comic offers a chane to "WIN A TRIP TO Alton Towers! SEE INSIDE FOR DETAILS!" at the bottom.
1989	70 Pence	Dennis the Menace, Gnasher riding a donkey over a beach picnic as Bash Street Kids look on horrified.
1992	90 Pence	Dennis the Menace, Gnasher and Rasher playing at the playground on a swinging tyre.
1998	£1.10	Dennis the Menace and Gnasher on beach whilst Dennis is roller skating.

DC Thomson comics
Currently Running Comics	The Beano BeanoMAX Commando Fun Section in The Sunday Post
Adventure Comics	Adventure Bullet Buddy Champ Commando The Crunch The Hornet The Hotspur The Rover The Skipper Spike Starblazer The Vanguard The Victor Warlord The Wizard
Girls Comics	Bunty Judy Mandy Nikki
Humour Comics	The Beano BeanoMAX The Beezer Buzz Classics from the Comics Cracker The Dandy Fun Size Comics Hoot The Magic Comic Nutty Plug Sparky The Topper
Pre-School Comics	Bimbo The Magic Comic Twinkle
Notable Strips	Alf Tupper Baby Crockett Bananaman The Bash Street Kids Beryl the Peril Black Bob Biffo the Bear Big Eggo The Broons Calamity James Cuddles and Dimples Dennis the Menace Desperate Dan Ginger Gnasher Ivy the Terrible Jonah Keyhole Kate Korky the Cat Little Plum Lord Snooty Matt Braddock Mickey the Monkey Minnie the Minx Nero and Zero The Numskulls Pansy Potter Roger the Dodger Tricky Dicky Oor Wullie Willy Nilly Winker Watson Wilson the Wonder Athlete Wolf of Kabul
Comic annuals	The Beano Annual The Beezer Book The Bimbo Book The Dandy Annual The Hotspur Book for Boys The Sparky Book The Topper Book The Victor Book for Boys Warlord Book for Boys
Character annuals	Bananaman Annual The Bash Street Kids Annual Beryl the Peril Annual Black Bob Book The Broons Annual Dennis the Menace Annual The Desperate Dan Book Oor Wullie Annual
Notable Artists	Barrie Appleby Nigel Auchterlounie Leo Baxendale Gordon Bell Nick Brennan Paddy Brennan Sid Burgon Reg Carter Wilbur Dawbarn Karl Dixon The Etherington Brothers Hunt Emerson Andy Fanton John Geering Barry Glennard Charles Grigg Ken H. Harrison Laura Howell Diego Jourdan Malcolm Judge David Law Alexander Matthews Trevor Metcalfe Allan Morley David Mostyn Vic Neill Robert Nixon Gary Northfield Nigel Parkinson Tom Paterson Jim Petrie Ken Reid Bill Ritchie David Parkins Jon Rushby Jamie Smart Lew Stringer David Sutherland Kev F. Sutherland Dudley D. Watkins Stevie White
Notable Writers	Mike Chinn Gilbert Lawford Dalton Alan Grant Ian Gray R. D. Low Grant Morrison Tom Morton John Radford Cavan Scott John Smith
See Also	Beanotown Racing List of D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd publications List of Fleetway and IPC Comics publications List of Beano comic strips List of Dandy comic strips List of Beezer comic strips List of Beezer and Topper comic strips

The Beano
Current strips	Ball Boy Bananaman The Bash Street Kids Beaginnings Biffo the Bear Billy Whizz Calamity James Dennis the Menace Gnipper Les Pretend Little Plum Lord Snooty Minnie the Minx Number 13 Beano Street The Numskulls Pansy Potter Pup Parade Rasher Roger the Dodger Tom, Dick and Sally Tricky Dicky
Notable former strips	Baby Face Finlayson The Bash Street Kids - Singled Out Beaginnings The Belles of St. Lemons Big Eggo Billy the Cat Colin the Vet Colonel Crackpot's Circus Crazy for Daisy Danny's Nanny Derek the Sheep Fatty Fudge Freddie Fear Fred's Bed General Jumbo Gnasher's Bit(e) Gnasher's Tale Gnash Gnews Gordon Bennett Grandpa Hairy Dan Helpful Henry The Germs Ivy the Terrible Jack Flash Jimmy and his Magic Patch Joe Jitsu Joe King Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green Jonah Lord Snooty the Third The Magic Lollipops Maxy's Taxi The McTickles Meebo and Zuky Morgyn the Mighty The Nibblers Nicky Nutjob Olaff the Madlander Ping the Elastic Man Pirates of the Caribeano Ratz Robbie Rebel Richard the Lion Simply Smiffy Smudge Splodge Super School The Three Bears Tim Traveller Tin-Can Tommy Wee Ben Nevis Wee Peem Winnie the Witch Winston The Yeti with Betty Zap Zodiac
Supporting characters	Bea Gnasher Walter the Softy
Television adaptations	The Beano's Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Show Dennis and Gnasher (1996) Dennis and Gnasher (2009)
See also	The Beano timeline Bash Street School The Beano Annual Beano comic libraries BeanoMAX The Beano Summer Special Beano Video List of Beano comic strips List of Beano comic strips by annual Beanotown Racing Dennis the Menace Annual The Magic Comic Fun Size Beano

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