Greetings, wherever you are.

I would like to invite you to come visit the Beano Wiki, a collaborative encyclopedia about The Beano, one of the UK's longest running comics. Founded in 1938, it is still active to this day.

My first visit to this wiki was in 2015, and back then, it was a complete mess: a lot of vandalism, Curious George nonsense, and foul language. I noticed there were other alternative wikis, but I only focused on this one. In 2019 I became admin and cleaned up the site, in the hopes of other users coming in to contribute. However, as time passed, I became plagued by three things:

1. My awkwardness at being the only foreigner who knew about the Beano.

2. My impatience at waiting for other users to come.

3. My belief that I always had to watch over the wiki, taking away most of my time.

Due to these three reasons, this year I decided to resign from my position, as I did not see myself as suitable for the role. But I am also disappointed, as I wish I had done better.

I am here, bringing this matter to your attention, because I want someone to take care of this wiki. Someone who cares about this comic, despite the changes it went through over the years. Someone who, despite many people thinking this comic has "lost its essence", deep down knows that it has simply been modernized for a new generation, for better or worse. And if it changed for the worse, then that someone can invite other users to express their opinion about what they don't like about the new Beano without resorting to toxicity.

I hope the person succeeding me will do a better job than I did.

beano.fandom.com

Hi

I'm doing academic research into British comics and I want to track this strip down. I think it was reprinted in terminal-phase Battle Storm Force but where and when did it first run?

hi, I'm looking to locate a very funny strip I read once that was a Star Wars/ Aladdin parody with art by Tom Paterson, and it was published as a one-off in a Fleetway publication in the late 70s/ early 80s. There was a splash panel, possibly a cover, with a boy holding up a lamp like it was a lightsabre on the Star Wars poster, and the "Leia" behind him was called "Princess Droopy Draws." The villain was called "Avabanana"!

If anyone can give me any information that might help me figure out where I saw this so that I can track it down, it would be most appreciated.

We need some pages for some Spidey villains. I can create, but if it was up to me, I'd probably go all-out and include villains like Iguana, Swarm and Jack O'Lantern, who aren't crucial to the wiki. So I shall ask the community... which Spidey villains should be included?

NB: I'm not including Black Cat, Sandman, Rhino or Boomerang as villains due to their roles in recent AS-M issues, and Kingpin will probably be included due to his role in Daredevil stories reprinted in MWOM.

I'd say 10 max?

1. Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)
2. Lizard - already a page
3. Scorpion
4. At least a team page for characters in the Enforcers
5. Electro
6. Green Goblin
7. Maybe a page for goblins, e.g. Hobgoblin
8. Jackal
9. Mysterio
10. Kraven or Chameleon

or create a page for every Spidey villain giving a bit about their history info, like the Marvel database's character indexes?

Nooooo! When I typed in: https://comics.panini.co.uk/ it said it was... TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE!

What!?

How can it be... and why?

So, noticed this Forum, and thought I'd write a bit about something on it. On Saturday I bought #1 of Avengers Universe Vol 4 (first A.U. issue I've ever bought - I usually buy Astonishing Spider-Man, Deadpool Unleashed and Mighty World of Marvel) and it's awesome. I'm definetely going to buy #2, and maybe #3 and onwards. I love Jason Aaron's story and Ed McGuinness and Paco Medina's art - even if it is a reprint. But it is an awesome 100-page-special with #1 - #4 of Avengers that I would definetely recommend.

I would like to edit some stuff from a few dw pages and I find myself unable to. Why is that?

Two part question........

As a kid in the 1960s, I got a comic(s) that, for a while, gave away the following......

1. cardboard cutouts of classic guns (Colts, etc) with cardboard bullets. The idea was to cut out the guns, fold them over, fit an elastic band, and fire the cardboard bullets.

2. multi-page 'histories' of classic guns (Colts, Winchester rifles, etc) and who used them (Billy The Kid, Wyatt Earp, etc)

Anyone any information on either of these (may have been different comics)?

Thanks

Anyone have a contact for Brian Forbes the cartoonist who drew Connie?

I am in northern England. This is my first attempt here. Sorry.

On this wiki I can find nowhere to register or login, or do we know each other only as IPA codes?

Is anythere a reasonably detailed synopsis of what happened in Tor Cyan's adventures? Due to nearby comic shops closing or moving about, I have largely lost touch with the 2000 comic and its stories.

I collect jazz fiction and I am interested in finding jazz themed series within comics.

I have a full set of 'Kid Laine - Jazz Drummer' from Rover in the late 50s, a couple of issues of Champion featuring 'Ginger Nutt and his Hot Rhythm' from 1951 and have been told that Hotspur carried a series 'Sound that Horn' featuring boy trumpeter 'Cowslick Carter'.

I would be grateful for any details about the Hotspur series (issue numbers, dates etc.) or any info about others not mentioned above.

Many thanks

I HAVE 2 MARVEL DIGEST POCKET BOOKS: 1 SPIDER-MAN (FANTASTIC FIRST ISSUE)

                                                                       2 STAR HEROES. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA PLUS MICRONAUTS (FANTASTIC FIRST ISSUE) VALUE OF THE ABOVE PLEASE

Just picked this up off ebay, bit tatty but no worries. Weird thing is that the inside cover is blank - they always used the inside front and back covers for the story and the comic definitely has no pages missing but the first inner page is No3 (as usual) but no splash page no 1 and page no 2 on the inside cover. End of the last story is also missing. Looks like a printing error.

Anyone know if this affected every issue printed or do I have an unusual one on my hands?

I'm looking for a Bill Lacey comic story entitled in Finnish "Mestariaivot" (kind of Master Mind or Master Brain). See two excerpts below. The comic book it was in was printing British and American comic stories, like "Johnny Hazard", "Buzz Cooper", "Kerry Drake", "Mike Nomad", "Sexton Blake", "Steve Roper", and some years earlier "Ghost Rider", "Conan" and "Steel Claw".

http://www.antikvariaattimakedonia.fi/moog/index.php?sivu=lehti&moog_lehti_id=24003

http://www.antikvariaattimakedonia.fi/moog/index.php?sivu=lehti&moog_lehti_id=24001

I am looking for information on the 1980 blakes 7 annual. I understand that there are versions of this. One has 1980 printed on the cover and spine. The other does not...anywhere. Can anyone tell me the reason behind this. Is one a reprint? Or is the date less annual a mistake?

My all time favourite comic story. It should never have been stopped. Julie and Throg were great as was the Joke man. When I read Russell T. Davies referring to this in his column just as he was starting on Doctor Who I knew that show was in good hands. Throg even inspired a song from yours truly. 

I am desperately trying to find an annual from the 70's. I recall that, as a child, I had a hard-backed comic annual - Superman or Batman, I think. And here's where it gets vague - I seem to recall a storyline where one of the superheroes fights Nazis on flying saucers, perhaps at a World Trade Fair. Any help would be really appreciated.

Julius Staffoird-Baker's series 'Hooligan' came to be the front cover for Funny Folks, and  he was very proud of this early sucess.  His first published cartoon was in 1885 in a rather racy publication in newspaper style called Topical Times.  He was then only 16 years old.  Having started out training as a black and white artist in the studio of his Mothers Uncle, John Phillips Stafford, almost entirely with work aimed at adults - some for US magazines like Judge - where Hendersons the publishers seemes to have had a strong connection - by the later 1890s he was drawing a colour supplement to The World and His Wife, aimed at children which is the correct detail of first appearance of Tiger Tim and the Bruin Boys, unlike detail posted elsewhere.  Scholars should note that the Newspaper Library at Hendon has indeed copies of Funny Folks, but they are (2013) literally falling apart, and cannot be expected to be acessed much longer..  Indeed this is true of much of that sort of publishing - its the paper is the problem, ultimately cheap with a straw fibre content, with horrendously high alkali levels.  You want to see?  go soon folks, and take cotton gloves..

Julius Stafford-Baker,  - His Grandson, who holds some archive..