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Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

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Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens, humorous

Character(s): Dennis's friends; Rasher; Dennis's dad; Dennis's mum; Bea (as part of the Beano logo)

First Line: Yahoo!

Synopsis: Dennis and Gnasher create an adventure playground in the garden and then charge his friends 50p each to go round. The course takes them through a swamp (Rasher's mud pit), a jungle and a rain forest, where Gnasher sprinkles everyone with water. Dennis's mum and dad come home and are worried that they'll have pay for everyone's cleaning bills but the friends have enjoyed themselves so much they want to go round again. For another 50p, of course.

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Pages: 3

Notes: Story continues from the front cover onto the following two pages.

Title of the strip appears in the first panel on page 2.

Les Pretend

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Les Pretend; Les's mum; woman shopper; store manager

First Line: You suit that shirt, Les. Keep it on if you like.

Synopsis: Les pretends to be a boxing referee. He referees a dispute between his mum and another shopper in a department store. The shopper complains and asks to see the store manager who, to his dismay, recognises Les.

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Legoland Windsor

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Feature(s): Legoland

First Line: Hooray! We're all going to school!

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Notes: Comic style ad for Legoland Windsor.

Dog's Breakfast TV

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Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens, humorous

Character(s): Spaniel O'Doggerel; Karen Terrier; Jeremy Dachshund

First Line: Do not adjust your set, viewers. Our ace presenter, Spaniel O'Doggerel has lost his voice.

Synopsis: Spaniel O'Doggerel has lost his voice and weathergirl Karen Terrier tries to take over the presenter's role. Spaniel switches the feed over to Jeremy Dachshund who is road testing the new Mercedes Bones.

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Dean's Dino

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Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens, humorous

Character(s): Dean's Dino; Dean; team keeper; team manager

First Line: I'm playing football today!

Synopsis: Dino is Dean's superfan at the football game. He is so excited that he gives the ball a mighty kick which carries keeper into France. The manager needs another keeper and Dino steps in.

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Sunny Delight part 1 of 3

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Synopsis: Wordless panel showing a woman and long haired dog on a lead. They are out for a run.

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Panel is printed in orange on white only.

Beaginnings

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Bea's dad; Bea's mum

First Line: We'll have to disguise Bea!

Synopsis: Bea is wrapped up in a long scarf to disguise who she is by her mum and dad. This is so when they go to the safari park the animals won't panic. Unfortunately the animals recognise her and try to escape from the park.

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9 great Wade Dennis the Menace figures to be won!

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First Line: All you have to do is look through this issue of The Beano to find the hidden Wade Dennis figure.

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Notes: The competition is a joint promotion between The Beano and BJ Promotions with BJ Promotions giving away all the prizes.

Dennis appears in a photograph as a Wade Dennis figure.

Sunny Delight part 2 of 3

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Synopsis: The woman and the long haired dog come to a halt in front of an open fridge containing two bottles of Sunny Delight.

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Panel is printed in orange on white except for the speech bubbles which are black on white. There are two speech bubbles containing an ordinary exclamation mark and an exclamation mark made using a bone emoji.

Roger the Dodger

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Roger the Dodger; Dodge Cat; Roger's dad; Roger's mum; Chiquita; Chiquita's dad; Chiquita's mum

First Line: We've got new neighbours - all the way from Spain.

Synopsis: Roger has new neighbours, a Spanish family with a daughter named Chiquita. Roger is smitten and dresses up as a Spanish matador which he calls a matadodger.

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Sunny Delight part 3 of 3

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Synopsis: The long haired dog now has the woman on the lead going for a run.

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Panel is mostly printed in orange on white.

Ivy the Terrible

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Ivy the Terrible; Ivy's dad; Ivy's mum

First Line: I've thought of a way to make some money!

Synopsis: Ivy has a plan to make some money by sending in a video to 'You've been Framed'. Despite looking around many potential incidents it ends up with Ivy being videoed having an accident with a pail of water.

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The Bash Street Kids

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): The Bash Street Kids [Danny; Plug; Toots; Wilfrid; 'Erbert; Fatty, Smiffy; Spotty; Sidney]; Teacher; memory training expert; policeman

First Line: Hmmm.

Synopsis: A memory training expert visits the class to help improve the kids' memories. He leaves exasperated by their behaviour.

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Pages: 2

Notes: N.P. signature is in the lower left of the first panel.

Crazy for Daisy

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Crazy for Daisy

Character(s): Daisy; Ernest Valentine; flight attendant

First Line: I got a super cheapo holiday. Costa Tortilla, here I come!

Synopsis: Daisy has booked a holiday without Ernest but is horrified when she boards the plane to see Ernest getting on as well.

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Joe's Joke Corner

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Genres: humorous

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Pages: 0.1

Notes: The Joe King panel was written by readers of the Beano

This week's idea was from Adam Hardy of Tadcaster and is a single panel at the bottom of the Crazy for Daisy strip.

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Colorist(s): Photo montage

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First Line: "You shouldn't wear a short skirt. Use your brain or the boys will sneak a look. Choose one from the schoolwear section" advised Norm.

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Notes: Advertisement for Twix chocolate bar. The page can be folded à la the Mad fold-in to reveal the message "a break from the Norm"

The Numskulls

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Edd; Brainy; Radar; Snitch; Blinky; Cruncher; Edd's mum; Edd's dad; the bottyskulls

First Line: Edd will burn up!

Synopsis: Edd is eating a vindaloo curry. His mum and dad think it's too hot and he's eating too much. The numskulls send the curry down to be dealt with by the bottyskulls.

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Pages: 1.5

Notes: Paterson's signature striped smelly sock appears in panel five.

Gnasher's Snaps

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Synopsis: A selection of photographs sent in by Beano readers. Gnasher appears in the title sequence and two other drawings.

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Tim Traveller

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Tim Traveller; Tim's mum; Tim's dad; three bears

First Line: Where have you been on that bike again?

Synopsis: Tim is being nagged by his dad and mum about being on his bike so he goes off for some peace. He accidentally brings back three bears to the present and they make themselves at home in his parent's house.

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Character(s): Action Man (plastic figure)

First Line: A hundred different systems, for a thousand dangerous missions.

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Minnie the Minx

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Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens, humorous

Character(s): Minnie the Minx; Minnie's dad; Minnie's mum; Chico (cat); Brewster (cat)

First Line: I'm sure Chico and Brewster won't be any bother, Minnie.

Synopsis: Minnie is left looking after two cats.

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First Line: Dennis & Gnasher slide in at 5.00

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Notes: Advertisement for Fox Kids.

Calamity James

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Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens, humorous

Character(s): Calamity James; Alexander Lemming; postman; china shop owner

First Line: Look at the fan mail I get. I deserve to be the star of this page.

Synopsis: Alexander Lemming thinks that he should be the star of the page as he gets far more fan mail than James. But when he tries on James's number 13 jersey he soon finds that all the bad luck is too much.

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Notes: Paterson's signature striped smelly sock appears in panel five.

Tetra goldfish supplies

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First Line: Start with a goldfish and who knows where you'll end up.

Synopsis: An octopus climbs out of an aquarium tank clutching a tube of goldfish food and a smaller tube of Aquasafe.

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Notes: Advertisement for Tetra and their Goldfish Pack.

Free in the Dandy

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First Line: It's a lorra, lorra lolly!

Synopsis: Advertisement for stablemate comic The Dandy which will include a free Swizzels Matlow Drumstick Lolly.

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Pages: 0.25

Notes: The issue of The Dandy in question is credited as being dated May 8th but on sale Friday April 30th for 50p.

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First Line: You can still join Dennis's Fan Club

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Off the Wall

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Minnie the Minx; Plug; Roger the Dodger; Little Plum; Ivy the Terrible

Synopsis: Letters from Beano readers. These contain a joke, cartoon, funny drawing or funny strip.

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Notes: The featured characters appear in the header or as a stock drawing (Ivy).

Fox Kids

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First Line: Tea-time terror! Goosebumps at 4.30

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Notes: Advert for Fox Kids

Beano Photo Laughs

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Genres: anthropomorphic, nature

First Line: Gnice smile, please!

Synopsis: A single photograph of a shark with a drawing of Gnasher in scuba gear trying to clean the shark's teeth. The text asks the reader to join in on The Great WWF Shark Swim throughout May.

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Notes: The single page story is printed sideways in landscape format.

Gnasher and Gnipper

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Feature(s): Gnasher and Gnipper

Character(s): Gnipper; Dennis's Dad; Dennis's Mum; shopkeepers

Synopsis: Gnasher and Gnipper roll in a puddle of oil in the driveway. This allows them to squeeze through some railings when they are being chased by shopkeepers after pinching food from the butchers.

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The Beano Club

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Character(s): Walter the softie; Minnie the Minx; Roger the Dodger

First Line: Joining the Beano Club is one thing I wouldn't dodge!

Synopsis: Full page advertisement for the Beano Club. Roger is a large drawing lifted from an unknown story. Dennis, Walter and Minnie are visible behind Roger on a reduced size page from an unknown story.

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