Beano & Beano

Beano & Beano

The Beano is the longest running British children’s comic magazine, published by DC Thomson. The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. In September 2009, The Beano’s 3,500th issue was published. One of the best selling comics in British popular culture, along with The Dandy, the weekly circulation of The Beano in April 1950 was 1,974,072. The Beano is currently edited by John Anderson. Each issue is published on a Wednesday, with the issue date being that of the following Saturday.

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Beano were a big comedy show group through out the 70s in northern working mens clubs.The band consisted of Freddy Phillips, Ken Smith, John Birch and Ray Johnson.

As well as doing the rounds of the club circuit, Beano also released 5 singles and a 1975 album, Candy Baby.