Tag Archive | "The Beano"

Happy birthday, Dennis!!

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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Hard to believe but Dennis the Menace is 60 years old today, having made his unruly bow in the immortal Beano on March 17th, 1951. How many generations of British kids grew up reading about Dennis (and then later his equally spiky haired dog Gnasher) in the Beano? It’s built into our collective childhood – [...]

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Happy 3500th to the Beano!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

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Thanks to Lew Stringer for pointing this out – The Beano reached the momentous issue 3500 this week. 71 years, every week with even world wars only managing to turn it into a fortnightly comic.That makes it the only regular weekly series to get to this milestone. Congratulations and happy 3500th birthday Beano.

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