Beano celebrates 80th birthday – The Saturn Herald

Beano's comic first published in June 1938 — Beano’s comic first published in June 1938

Beano comic first published in Julyn30, 1938 and they continue to laugh at the world form “kidview” as comic celebrates its 80^th birthday.

Beano launched characters like Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx and The Bash Street kids, and its sister paper The Dandy, which went on sale eight months earlier.

Publisher DC Thomson in Dundee, sold almost two million copies weekly in the 1950s and was the children’s favourite over the decades.

Very few first issues of the Beano remain in existence and one of them sold for £17, 000 at an auction in 2015.

Several events have been staged to mark the 80^th anniversary with Dundee’s McManus museum renamed the McMenace for an exhibition celebrating 80 years of the comic.