Vic Volcano - 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

Two Prose series. First was from 1938 to 1941. Second was from 1949 to 1950. In between the character appeared in picture strips.

 Dudley Watkins 1938 1950
Black Flash the Beaver Richard Baines 1938 1938
Granny Green Originally ran from 1938 to 1939.

Reprinted from 1945 to 1946. Returned again in 1951.

 Charles Gordon 1938 1951
The Wishing Tree Originally ran from 1938 to 1939.

Reprinted in 1946.

 Jack Glass 1938 1946
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 Originally ran from 1938 to 1940.

Reprinted in 1947.

 James Walker 1938 1947
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 Singing Giant Richard Baines 1939 1939
Twelve Happy Horners George Ramsbottom 1939 1939
The Bulldog Trail Jack Glass 1939 1939
The Little Joker in the Land of Nod Originally ran from 1939 to 1940.

Partially reprinted in 1948 under the title 'Sammy B Smart in the Land of Nod'

 James Walker 1939 1948
Hands off the Talking Lamb James Walker 1939 1939
Jack Sprat's Battle Cat Ran under the title 'When will the Golden Peacock Speak?' in 1940. James walker 1939 1940
Follow the Secret Hand Originally ran as a prose story from 1939 to 1940.

Then an as a picture strip with the title 'The Whistling Scythe'. A sequel story ran in 1949 entitled 'Keeper of the Magic Sword'. With another sequel appearing in 1950 entitled 'The Boy with the Wonder Horse'.

 Dudley watkins 1939 1950
The Boy with the Magic Masks Originally appeared in 1940.

Reprinted in 1948.

 Dudley Watkins 1940 1948
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 1942
Little Noah's Ark Two Prose series. First ran from 1940 to 1941.

Second appeared in 1952. There was also a picture strip version in 1949.

 Richard Baines 1940 1952
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 Originally ran from 1941 to 1942.

Reappeared in a slightly reworked form in 1952 as 'Plucky Little Nellie Kelly'

 Jack Prout 1941 1952
Nobody Wanted Nancy Jack Prout 1942 1942
Jack in the Bottle Originally ran from 1942 to 1943.

Reprinted from 1950 to 1951 under the title 'Bob in the Bottle'

 James Crighton 1942 1951
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 Originally appeared in 1943.

Reprinted as 'In the Clutches of the Wicked Wilsons' from 1952 to 1953

 Jack Prout 1943 1953
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
Tick-Tock Timothy Jack Prout 1945 1946
The Witch's Spell on Poor King Kell Jack Prout 1946 1946
Sooty Solomon Jack Prout 1946 1947
Ben O' the Beanstalk Jack Prout 1946 1947
The Runaway Russells Fred Sturrock 1947 1948
The Magic Penny Jack Prout 1947 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
The Iron Fish Later appeared in a picture strip. Jack Glass 1949 1950
Sandy's Magic Bagpipes Jack Glass 1949 1950
The Invisible Giant Unrelated to 1941 story with the same name.

Prose story adaptation of the adventure strip with the same name.

 Fred Sturrock 1949 1950
The Ticklish Tasks of Billy Barrel George Drysdale 1950 1950
Ting-A-Ling Bell Jack Glass 1950 1950
The Wily Ways of Simple Simon George Drysdale 1950 1950
The Bird Boy Later appeared in a picture strip. Jack Glass 1950 1951
Tommy's Clockwork Town Titled 'Tommy's Clockwork Brother' in 1952 Billy Holroyd 1951 1952
Jack of Clubs Jack Glass 1951 1951
Smarty Smokey James Clark 1951 1954
Red Rory of the Eagles Later appeared in a picture strip. 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 Prose story version of earlier Sinbad adventure strip Paddy Brennan 1951 1952
Rolling Jones James Clark 1952 1952
Mickey's Magic Bone In 1954 ran under the title 'Slave to the Talking Horse' David Law 1952 1954
Young Robin Hood Jack Glass 1952 1952
TV Stevie The Boy on Hookey's Wrist George Drysdale 1952 1952
Catapult Jack Jack Glass 1952 1952
The Boy on the Flying Trapeze James Clark 1952 1953
Percy from the Pole Star James Crighton 1953 1953
Cast-Iron Stan Circus Superman Bill Holroyd 1953 1953
Nutty the Coal Imp Bill Holroyd 1953 1954
The Magic Bottle James Walker 1953 1953
Runaways with Grandad James Walker 1953 1953
The Spell of Geordie's Whistle James Walker 1954 1955
Ace from Space Leo Baxendale 1955 1955

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