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A detail from the front cover of the Beano's 'Gnashional Trust' special.

The Beano joins forces with the National Trust 2011

Brightsolid is owned by the Beano's Dundee-based publisher, DC Thomson.

British Library creates a "national memory' with digital newspaper archive 2011

The Beano's weekly sale pales in comparison to Thomson's other famous weekly magazine, The People's Friend, which continues to sell 313,711 per issue.

Archive 2010-01-01 Steve 2010

The Beano's weekly sale pales in comparison to Thomson's other famous weekly magazine, The People's Friend, which continues to sell 313,711 per issue.

Comic Cuts: 2009 Wrap Party Steve 2010

Today he remains the Beano's most popular character and has his own international TV spin-off, albeit that the strip has been re-named Dennis and Gnasher, in recognition of the loyal canine sidekick who joined him in 1968.

BBC News - Home 2011

The cartoon is based on the Beano's Lord Snooty but Newman saw Dennis as a better fit for Boris Johnson.

BBC News - Home 2011

It all began in Dundee, where the Beano's publisher DC Thomson & Co is still based.

BBC News - Home 2011

With a foolish bald-spot-hiding parting, he was the spit of The Beano's Lord Snooty as he vainly tried to muscle in on the big kids' chats in Brussels the other night.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

Matthew Jarron, the curator of a Dundee University exhibition celebrating the Beano's 70th anniversary in 2008, says the strip has evolved without losing its essential nature.

BBC News - Home 2011

Beano's history reveals - when the comic's editor George Moonie heard a music hall song with the chorus "I'm Dennis the Menace from Venice" and ordered a character to fit the name.

BBC News - Home 2011