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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. The strip's main character had previously appeared in The Topper.	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	The character previously appeared as a regular comic strip in 1999	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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