List of Beano Comic Strips - List of Comic Idol Runners-up

List of Comic Idol Runners-up

The following is a list of comic strips which appeared in The Beano during a Comic Idol or similar competition but did not win. Many of these strips appeared in annuals and Gordon Bennet went on to appear in The Beano a few years after coming runner up in a Comic Idol competition. Even though these strips did not win a Comic Idol competition many of them lasted longer than a number of other Beano comic strips such as Alf Wit which only lasted two issues. Phone-a-Fiend and Space Kidette are the only two strips on this list which appeared as one-offs.

Strip Title Notes Original Artist Start Date End Date
Minder Bird About a bird who had to look after a lively child called Terry the Terror. Terry Willers 1995 1995
Sort Out Squad Four kids, a cat and a parrot who would help people. Robert Nixon 1995 1995
Chip - The Stone Age Boy John Dallas 1995 1995
Have-A-Go Jo David Mostyn 1997 1997
Camp Cosmos About an inter-galactic holiday camp.

Also appeared in one annual.

 John Geering 1997 1997
SYDD (Sneaky, Yucky, Dump Dweller) David Mostyn 1997 1997
Trash Can Alley Bob Dewar 1997 1997
Inspector Horse and Jocky About an inspector who was also a horse

and his human sidekick and Jockey called Jocky.

Title was a play on Inspector Morse.

 Terry Bave 1999 2000
Tricky Dicky About a son of a joke shop owner who had plenty tricks up his sleeve. John Dallas 1999 2000
Gordon Bennet About a little boy who would drive his next door neighbour mad. Jim Hansen 1999 2000
Space Kidette This strip was about an alien

whose spacecraft crash-landed on Earth.

Only two strips ever appeared and they were in the same issue.

Its premise was similar to the later strip Zap Zodiac.

 Robert Nixon 2002 2002
Phone-a-Fiend About of a group of monsters that

were hired to scare troublemakers into changing their ways.

A similar strip appeared in the 2011 Beano Annual entitled

Fiends Reunited drawn by Nick Brennan.

 Wayne Thompson 2002 2002
Dean's Dino Second Series Geoff Waterhouse 2004 2004
Christmas Carole About a girl who wanted it to be Christmas every day.

Previously appeared in The Beezer Book.

 Keith Page 2005 2005
Hugh Dunnit About a boy detective. David Mostyn 2005 2005
Mia Starr Duncan Scott 2006 2006
Scammin' Sam Steve Horrocks 2006 2006
Uh Oh Si Co About a boy who'd go berserk at the slightest negative comment. Nigel Parkinson 2010 2010
Home Invasion About aliens who invade Earth. David Sutherland 2010 2010

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