A copy of the very first issue of the Beano comic, dated July 30, 1938, and costing two old pence, has just been sold for £8,525. Minus, I should mention, the bumper free gift of a Whoopee Mask.

The British economy was in a volatile state 80 years ago, as the world teetered on the brink of war. Business was tough for all, and yet printing and publishing was expanding with Dundee-based DC ...

The Beano's circulation was a "six-figure" number in 2003. ... Bananaman, an ex-Dandy chap, now has a spot in the Beano. The future looks uncertain for a truly British institution.

When I was a kid the Beano and the Dandy were like cats and dogs: you liked one or the other and your preference reflected your personality. I was a Beano fan. The difference between Dandy and Beano ...

Despite now having reached 30 I still get the Beano annual every year and fully expect that to continue. I've got each one back to 1980 and treasure them. I read the Beano (and at times the inferior ...

COMIC fans could be sitting on a fortune with the rarest Beano worth up to £20,000 to die-hard collectors. To mark the 40th birthday of parody superhero Bananaman, The Sun is revealing some the ...

'Beano' and 'Dandy' scriptwriter. In 1951, when Gray was 13, a leering child with ink-blot hair, a red-and-black striped sweater, and a very bad attitude, was born, fully formed, in The Beano.

The current Somerset House exhibition in London, Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, revels in the joyful impudence of the 83-year-old comic magazine’s characters. A tribute to the publication’s ...

DC Thomson unveils Beano, Dandy, Oor Wullie & The Broons 2024/2025 annuals. Iconic Beano Annual features 112 pages of Dennis and Gnasher’s escapades.

DC Thomson, the publishing group behind the likes of Stylist, Press & Journal and The Beano, has surged back into profit and ...

Now the world’s longest running weekly comic (following the demise of The Dandy in 2012), The Beano has endured because it celebrates its past, while evolving to survive the future.