List of Beano Comic Strips - List of Prose Stories

List of Prose Stories

From the Beano's first issue up until 1955 the Beano contained Prose stories. These were similar to other text stories found in older story papers and featured a prose story usually of one or two pages (they could be longer in the annuals) and often featured an illustration at the top of the page with the title of the prose story. A number of these prose stories went on to become adventure strips and some adventure strips even had prose story versions. During their lifetime in The Beano there were 79 different prose stories of which 15 also appeared as Adventure strips. These strips were Jack of Clubs, Tom Thumb, Little Noah's Ark, The Iron Fish, Red Rory of the Eagles, Sinbad the Sailor, Little Master of the Mighty Chang, The Bird Boy, The Wily Ways of Simple Simon, The Invisible Giant, The Hungry Goodwins, Tick Tock Timothy, Smarty Smokey, Prince on the Flying Horse and Follow the Secret Hand.

Strip Title Notes Original Artist Start Date End Date
Tom Thumb Tom Thumb also appeared in Bimbo Dudley Watkins 1938 1940
Black Flash the Beaver Richard Baines 1938 1938
Granny Green Charles Gordon 1938 1939
The Wishing Tree Jack Glass 1938 1939
The Shipwrecked Kidds Jack Glass 1938 1938
My Dog Sandy Jack Glass 1938 1938
The Ape's Secret Richard Baines 1938 1938
Jimmy's Pet-The Kangaroo Richard Baines 1938 1939
The Prince on the Flying Horse James Walker 1938 1939
Little Master of the Mighty Chang Jack Glass 1938 1939
The Little Magic Man George Ramsbottom 1938 1939
King of Thunder Mountain Richard Baines 1939 1939
The Wishing Tree Second Series Jack Prout 1939 1939
The Singing Giant Richard Baines 1939 1939
Twelve Happy Horners George Ramsbottom 1939 1939
The Prince on the Flying Horse Second Series this one titled King on the Flying Horse James Walker 1939 1939
The Bulldog Trail Jack Glass 1939 1939
The Little Joker in the Land of Nod James Walker 1939 1940
Hands off the Talking Lamb James Walker 1939 1939
Jack Sprat's Battle Cat James walker 1939 1940
Follow the Secret Hand First Series of Whistling Scythe Dudley watkins 1939 1940
When will the Golden Peacock Speak? Second Series (Sequel to Jack Sprat's Battle Cat) James Walker 1940 1940
The Prince on the Flying Horse Third Series Jack Glass 1940 1940
The Boy with the Magic Masks Dudley Watkins 1940 1940
Keeper of the Crooked Cross George Ramsbottom 1940 1940
The King's got a Tail Dudley Watkins 1940 1940
Down with Lord Haw-Haw Jack Glass 1940 1940
The White Mouse will Get You Dudley Watkins 1940 1941
Little Noah's Ark Richard Baines 1940 1941
Tom Thumb Second Series Dudley Watkins 1940 1941
A Wonderful Bird is Bill Pelican Richard Baines 1940 1940
The Black Witch is Waiting George Ramsbottom 1940 1947
The March of the Wooden Soldiers Fred Sturrock 1941 1941
The Boy who bossed the Man in the Moon James Crighton 1941 1941
The Invisible Giant Jack Glass 1941 1942
Waifs of the Wild West George Ramsbottom 1941 1941
Blacksmith Bob eats Hay at Night James Crighton 1941 1941
Plucky Little Nell Jack Prout 1941 1942
The White Mouse will Get You Second series James Crighton 1941 1942
Nobody Wanted Nancy Jack Prout 1942 1942
Jack in the Bottle James Crighton 1942 1943
Jimmy's Mother Wouldn't Run Away Jack Gordon 1942 1943
The Goat with the Magic Wand James Crighton 1943 1943
The Girl with the Golden Voice Jack Prout 1943 1943
Kitty with the coat of many colours James Crighton 1943 1944
King Kong Charlie Jack Gordon 1944 1944
Wun Tun Joe James Crighton 1944 1944
The Wicked Uncle and the Terrible Twins Jack Prout 1944 1945
Whitefang Guards the Secret Gold James Crighton 1944 1945
The Boy that Nobody Wanted Richard Baines 1945 1945
Granny Green Second Series (Reprint of 1938 story) Charles Gordon 1945 1946
Tick-Tock Timothy Jack Prout 1945 1946
The Witch's Spell on Poor King Kell Jack Prout 1946 1946
The Wishing Tree Third Series (Reprint of 1938 story) Jack Glass 1946 1946
Sooty Solomon Jack Prout 1946 1947
Ben O' the Beanstalk Jack Prout 1946 1947
The Prince on the Flying Horse Fourth Series (Reprint of 1939 story) Jack Prout 1947 1947
The Runaway Russells Fred Sturrock 1947 1948
The Magic Penny Jack Prout 1947 1948
Sammy B Smart in the Land of Nod Second Series (Partial Reprint of The Little Joker in the Land of Nod) Fred Sturrock 1948 1948
The Boy with the Magic Masks Second Series (Reprint) Fred Sturrock 1948 1948
The Hungry Goodwins Featured Dick Turpin as a main character. Fred Sturrock 1948 1949
One-off Lucky Mascot Stories Fred Sturrock, Jack Gordon, Sam Fair & Jack Prout 1948 1949
Keeper of the Magic Sword Fourth Series of Whistling Scythe Fred Sturrock 1949 1949
The Iron Fish Jack Glass 1949 1949
Tom Thumb Fifth Series Fred Sturrock 1949 1949
Sandy's Magic Bagpipes Jack Glass 1949 1950
The Invisible Giant Second Series (unrelated to 1941 story) Fred Sturrock 1949 1950
The Ticklish Tasks of Billy Barrel George Drysdale 1950 1950
Bob in the Bottle Second Series (Reprint of Jack in the Bottle) Fred Sturrock 1950 1950
The Iron Fish Second Series Jack Glass 1950 1950
The Boy with the Wonder Horse Fifth Series of Whistling Scythe Fred Sturrock 1950 1950
Ting-A-Ling Bell Jack Glass 1950 1950
The Wily Ways of Simple Simon George Drysdale 1950 1950
The Iron Fish Third Series Jack Glass 1950 1950
Tom Thumb Sixth Series George Drysdale 1950 1950
The Bird Boy Jack Glass 1950 1951
Bob in the Bottle Third Series Fred Sturrock 1951 1951
Tommy's Clockwork Town Billy Holroyd 1951 1951
Granny Green Third Series George Ramsbottom 1951 1951
Jack of Clubs Jack Glass 1951 1951
Smarty Smokey James Clark 1951 1951
Red Rory of the Eagles Jack Glass 1951 1951
Willie in the Lost World James Clark 1951 1951
Goggo The Wizard in the Goldfish Bowl David Law 1951 1952
Sinbad the Sailor Second Series Paddy Brennan 1951 1952
Rolling Jones James Clark 1952 1952
Mickey's Magic Bone David Law 1952 1952
Young Robin Hood Jack Glass 1952 1952
Tommy's Clockwork Brother Second Series (Sequel to Tommy's Clockwork Town) Bill Holroyd 1952 1952
Little Noah's Ark Third Series Richard Baines 1952 1952
Smarty Smokey Second Series James Clark 1952 1952
TV Stevie The Boy on Hookey's Wrist George Drysdale 1952 1952
Plucky Little Nellie Kelly Second Series (Reworking of Plucky Little Nell) James Clark 1952 1952
Catapult Jack Jack Glass 1952 1952
The Boy on the Flying Trapeze James Clark 1952 1953
In the Clutches of the Wicked Wilsons Second Series (Reprint of Girl with the Golden Voice) James Walker 1952 1953
Percy from the Pole Star James Crighton 1953 1953
Cast-Iron Stan Circus Superman Bill Holroyd 1953 1953
Mickey's Magic Bone Second Series George Drysdale 1953 1953
Nutty the Coal Imp Bill Holroyd 1953 1954
The Magic Bottle James Walker 1953 1953
Runaways with Grandad James Walker 1953 1953
Smarty Smokey Third Series George Drysdale 1954 1954
Nutty the Coal Imp Second Series Bill Holroyd 1954 1954
Slave to the Talking Horse Third Series (Sequel to Mickey's Magic Bone) James Walker 1954 1954
The Spell of Geordie's Whistle James Walker 1954 1955
Ace from Space Leo Baxendale 1955 1955

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