List of Beano comic strips

The Beano is a British anthology comic magazine created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson. The Beano has featured comedic strips, adventure strips, and prose stories. Prose stories were, however, phased out in 1955 and adventure strips were phased out in 1975 – the last one being General Jumbo. The longest-running strip in The Beano, originally titled Dennis the Menace (currently titled Dennis and Gnasher), first appeared in 1951. Other long-running characters and series include Biffo the Bear, Minnie the Minx, Roger the Dodger, The Bash Street Kids, Little Plum and Billy Whizz. As of 2015, The Beano had been home to 371 different strips (with a further 17 strips appearing in Comic Idol competitions, but not in any later comics).

This list only features strips in the weekly comic, and does not list strips that only appeared once. It also includes the Comic Idol winners from 1995 to 2010.

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In 2012, The Beano began printing a new section called the Funsize Funnies. This section featured short three to four-panel comic strips. It originally featured old and existing Beano characters in its stories, but as time went on, the section began to feature celebrity parodies and wholly new characters.^{[citation needed]}

From the first issue of The Beano up until 1975, there were adventure strips. After 1975, they only continued in the Annuals, but attempts were made to revive them in the regular issues in the 2000s. This included three new series of Billy the Cat and the release of The Beano Action Special. Some of these strips started off being adapted from earlier prose stories. The longest running adventure strips are Tom Thumb (1938–1958), Jack Flash (1949–1958), Jimmy and his Magic Patch (1944–1959), The Iron Fish (1949–1967), Red Rory of the Eagles (1951–1962), General Jumbo (1953–1975), and Billy the Cat (1967–1974, 2003–2009). Of these 7 long-running adventure strips, 3 began as Prose stories: Tom Thumb, The Iron Fish, and Red Rory. During adventure strips' run in the regular issue, there were 85 different adventure strips.

From The Beano's first issue up until 1955, it contained prose stories. These were similar to other text stories found in older story papers and featured a prose story, usually of one or two pages (longer in the annuals), often featuring an illustration at the top of the page with the title of the prose story. A number of these prose stories went on to become adventure strips, and some adventure strips even had prose story versions.

During their lifetime in The Beano, there were 79 different prose stories, of which 15 also appeared as adventure strips: Jack of Clubs, Tom Thumb, Little Noah's Ark, The Iron Fish, Red Rory of the Eagles, Sinbad the Sailor, Little Master of the Mighty Chang, The Bird Boy, The Wily Ways of Simple Simon, The Invisible Giant, The Hungry Goodwins, Tick Tock Timothy, Smarty Smokey, Prince on the Flying Horse, and Follow the Secret Hand.

The issue following the 75th Anniversary Special in 2013 introduced a new text story called Diary of an Ugly Kid, but it disappeared later that year. In 2014, yet another new text story appeared titled Diary of a Bash Street Kid.