Front: All the characters are playing on a giant 3D mechanical Gnasher (a 2D one had previously been built by a school of aliens, in the 1997 annual).

Front: Roger (top left), Minnie (top middle), Billy Whizz (top right), the Bash Street Kids (middle left), and Ivy the Terrible (bottom middle). Big Eggo and Koko the Pup are having a three-legged race with all the other characters running behind them. Biffo is acting as General Jumbo with all the other then-current characters acting as the radio-controlled army. Front: Dennis, Gnasher, and all the other characters (some retired) are flying through space, using special vehicles. Front: All the characters are at the Beano's 75th birthday street party (this was a reference to all the street parties that were held over the country in 2012 to celebrate The Queen's Diamond Jubilee).Biffo is holding a picture frame up in front of himself, as if he was a portrait (four actual portraits of Dennis, Minnie, and Bash St.'s Smiffy and Plug are also present on the left and right sides of him, as he is standing in a Beano art gallery). Front: Dennis is about to score a goal, for his football team. Gnasher is growling at the Bash Street Kids (who are all on top of the goalpost). Biffo is doing a juggling act, and a swarm of bees (which have been released from their hive by Dennis and Minnie; this is the first Beano annual to feature her at full size on the cover, as she was miniaturized for 1956 one) are flying towards him. Front: All the characters are having a Christmas party with Dennis blowing a noisemaker in Gnasher's face. Big Eggo and all the other (then-current) characters are playing leapfrog as they approach a pool full of water.

Biffo is tossing pancakes, while wearing a chef's hat. Two pancakes have landed on Dennis and Gnasher, and the Bash Street Kids are peering around the door (which suggests that he could have been working in Bash Street School, as the school's cook). This was the last annual to feature Biffo the Bear on the cover, he was replaced by Dennis on the cover starting from 1975. Front: Dennis is on a "Rebels Wanted!" poster, and he has a Gnasher fan-club type badge on his chest, while other characters are cheering. Front: Dennis and Gnasher are jumping on a trampoline trying to get apples from a tree and the Bash Street Kids are watching from over the fence while Dennis's Dad watches them from behind the tree angrily. Biffo the Bear and Koko are fighting in front of a taxi, while all the other characters are trying to stop them.Front: The Bash Street Kids are bouncing across a farm on a spacehopper (or a "Super Bouncer", as the book refers to it) that has Dennis's face. Biffo is dressed as a lollipop man and holding a sign (which has the name of the book on it), while Dennis, Minnie, Roger, the Bash Street Kids, Three Bears, Billy Whizz, Lord Snooty, Bash Street Pups, The Nibblers (chased by Winston) and Little Plum all rush past him. Front: Most of the characters are on a rollercoaster, Dennis being front and centre, with Minnie, Roger, Billy Whizz, Walter, and Gnasher; the Bash Street Kids are in another set of seats behind, and Bananaman is flying nearby. Front: Dennis and Minnie are having a paintball fight in the snow (there is also a "Dandy/Beano 50 Years Young" logo, seen in the bottom-right corner of this annual's cover). Front: Dennis, Gnasher, Minnie, Danny, Plug, Billy Whizz, and Ivy the Terrible are flying in a hot air balloon which has the name of the book on it.

From 1943 to 1950 the annual was called "The Magic-Beano Book", which referred to the short-lived Magic Comic that had ceased publication in 1941 due to the Second World War's paper rationing. The name reverted to the original title of "The Beano Book" in 1950 and continued, the year changing for each subsequent annual, until the release of the 2003 book in 2002 when it was renamed "The Beano Annual". The 2011 Beano Annual is taller and wider than previous annuals. Dennis rides his bike over a river into his Dad's prize apple tree, and all the other characters cheer him on. The Bash Street Kids are sitting on a giant swing which is tied to the comic's name (Danny is reading the book).Front: Dennis is riding on a Gnasher-themed snowboard, while Gnasher himself is laughing in the foreground. This book also marked the 60th birthday of Dennis the Menace with a special logo that was displayed in the bottom-right corner of its front cover.

Front: All the characters are crammed on to the front cover (one of whom is "Edd Case", the Numskulls' boy). Front: Dennis, Minnie, and Gnasher are practicing karate; Gnasher is wearing a karategi with a red belt. Front: Dennis and Gnasher are bouncing on a trampoline (similar to the 1977 annual, but they aren't trying to steal any apples here), while Minnie, Gnipper, Roger, Walter, Danny and Billy Whizz watch them from below.Front: Dennis is standing on top of a podium holding the "Menace of the Year" award, while Minnie has won second place and Danny has won third place. Everybody else is cheering for them (except for the Softies). All the then-current characters are dancing around the spinning Big Eggo – with Lord Snooty playing the bagpipes. Front: Dennis and Gnasher are driving their Menace Car through a computer-generated world, trying to escape from an army of weird Beano robots (as there was a story about them travelling to a planet inhabited by them, and destroying them, in the annual). Front: Dennis is walking through Beanotown, and switches on his torch to find many "Beano Bugs" flying around him. Biffo the Bear is painting a portrait of Big Eggo and all the other (then-current) characters on a large canvas.