Gertie the Goat – a goat the children use for transport or as an honorary human who helps them in sports or with chores.

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Cramond, Harold, ed. (16 January 1960). "The Laughing Pirate". The Beano (Adventure strip). No.913. Illustrated by Vitor Peon. D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. (published 14 January 1960).Milligan, Mercedes (15 October 2018). "Nominees Revealed for International Emmy Kids Awards '19". Animation Magazine. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021 . Retrieved 18 July 2021. Anderson, David (20 August 2019). "How Beano and Dandy artist Dudley D. Watkins made generations of comic fans roar with laughter". The Conversation. When Watkins died in August 1969, David Sutherland continued the series until the 1970s, and then Jimmy Glen took over. [13] Biffo remained as cover star until issue 1677, [14] dethroned by Dennis the Menace, but appeared inside The Beano until issue 2310, [15] however, he would have three one-off strips in the "Readers' Request" feature. [13] Appearances outside of The Beano [ edit ] McAleer (1992), pp.168–9: "According to [George Moonie]: 'We really had to gear [to] the English market because that's where the readership lay. If you look at the middle belt of England, the industrial belt— Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Nottingham, Northampton—these places, very heavily populated, [were] your first target. '" Riches, Christopher, ed. (2008). "The Next Generation". The History of The Beano: The Story So Far. Dundee; New Lanark: DC Thomson; Waverly Books. p.196. ISBN 978-1-902407-73-9.

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Mussolini the Wop 's example reprint in The History of The Beano has "Wop" conspicuously hidden underneath a drawing of war planes flying past the Leaning Tower of Pisa. [277] SO Beano is HERE!". YouTube. 3 November 2018. Archived from the original on 23 November 2021 . Retrieved 11 February 2019. The third — and longest running — series began in 1959. To start with most episodes were reprints. However, by the mid-sixties Watkins was drawing new strips. Watkins stopped drawing Lord Snooty in 1968, a year before he died. This was when Robert Nixon took over, and produced a fair representation of Watkins' style.Brown, Craig (4 September 1995). "Hattersley's school daze". Evening Standard. p.11. Archived from the original on 28 June 2021. Euan, Kerr, ed. (20 February 1988). "Lord Snooty". The Beano. No.2379. Illustrated by Ken H. Harrison. D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. Beano legend Leo Baxendale dies aged 86". The Guardian. 27 April 2017. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021 . Retrieved 24 September 2021. According to the comic writer Alan Moore, who read [Leo Baxendale's] work in The Beano as a child, Baxendale was the reason British comics creators made waves in America during the 1980s. 'We started out ingesting the genuine anarchy of the Beano, when Baxendale was doing all that wonderful stuff, and then we moved on to American comics,' he told journalist Paul Gravett in 2013. 'We just became fascinated with all that gaudy exotica.' Beano characters the Bash Street Kids to have street named in their honour". BBC News. Archived from the original on 12 July 2021 . Retrieved 18 July 2021.