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and i love
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harsha!
WORDS: Grace Balfour-Harle ART: Emily McGorman-Bruce

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the head with a ball flying
through the staffroom
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 it’s the last i’m gonna dig we’re still in
week of school, the biggest hole the middle of a interesting?
dennis. any the beach has lesson, minnie. i opened a gateway
plans for the ever seen! to a parallel
summer? oh yeah. universe!
it can’t have
been very
interesting
then.

the bell goes we’ll be visiting

for home time… the science
blue and black look at museum! it’s fun
jumpers? our hair! and educational!
fun-cational!
be on time
tomorrow!
i’ve organised
a trip!

the next day...

miss, i forgot we aren’t

i’m talking my trunks! going to the
to myself! water park!

we’re going
to the science
museum! like
i said yesterday,
if anyone was
listening!

i’ll teach these kids that at the science museum...

science can be fun! if all
WORDS: Nigel Auchterlounie ART: Nigel Parkinson

else fails, my super-secret it’s okay. this is a science

surprise lesson won’t! stay together!
don’t touch museum. they’re free to
anything! wander and press the
ooh, you’ve got buttons and flick all the
me interested! switches they want.
 the van de graaff whoa! this generates
generator is more static electricity
popular… than rubbing two balloons
on your jumper!
apart from
the light
switch!

not for me!

nearby… strangely, roger

is enthusiastic... the planetarium!
yikes!
excuse me! i gotta space is big! you
get to my just won’t believe
favourite how vastly, hugely,
exhibit! mind-bogglingly
big it is.

gnasher will be very

disappointed when he figures
out that skeleton is plastic! - ed

gather round,
children! i have
a super-secret
surprise lesson
for you!

the nice thing about

making slime is that
there’s no way it
can go wrong!

five minutes
later...

arrgh! it’s
gone wrong!
it’s how to where do
urrgh! just as make slime! i sit?! it’s alive!
we were having
fun, you go
and spoil it!
 odd. do you have
anything plastic you excuse me, there
could rub on it? is it working? was a life-size
human skeleton
here. has anyone
take your seen it? hello?
bows out.

wake me when i’ve meanwhile, dennis is crashing

a spaceship on mars… it’s okay, it’s
learnt stuff! just a flight
simulator. he arrgh!
you may think can’t really
arrgh! crash it!
it’s a long way
down the road
to the chemist,
but that’s
just peanuts
compared
to space!

what?! – ed

everyone, calm
down! it’s just
slime! it can’t
hurt us!

i might have
used too much
glitter!

arrgh! it’s
digested
janitor!
 don’t worry,
miss! i’ve got a plan
that can’t fail! throw junk at it!
has anyone
seen my hat?

no, it hasn’t! it’s just the

plastic skeleton! - ed

the plastic skull

not the van rubs up against the
de graaff generator and…
you’ve given it
generator! electro-powers!
it’s expensive!
probably! not on
purpose!

but the electro-powers

are too much for the
gelatinous giant…

Find out all about

Dennis and Gnasher’s
it blew up! slimy adventure in i.P.
i did it! i saved you? it was Daley’s latest book -
the day! this guy! ‘Super Slime Spectacular’!
it’s out now!

MEANWHILE, FIND
OUT ALL ABOUT THE
STRANGE PLACES
AROUND BEANOTOWN!
THERE’S GOO, GUNK,
GLOP, GOOP AND
GUNGE APLENTY…
WHEN YOU KNOW
WHERE TO LOOK!

What did the Martian say to the book? ‘Take me to your reader!’
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THE BUM-ALAYAS - Just like Mount
Everest is the highest mountain in
the Himalayas, Mount Beano is the
highest in the Bum-alayas. I’m not
sure why they have that name... any
ideas?
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GOOPY MARSH - Sticky,
treacherous, and very
hard to escape from,
Goopy Marsh is a
dangerous place. What’s
very strange is if you
sink deep enough into
BLACKBOARD VALLEY -
Deathly silent, apart from the
distant ringing of ghostly school
bells, this valley is where old
school equipment goes when it’s
no longer needed. It’s full of old
desks, blackboards and

2
AWFUL LAKE - You know that pink the mud, you come bubblegum scrapers. On the
stuff you drink at the dentist? This out in... positive side, there are no
is where they get it... AND where teachers.

5
they put it once you spit it out. MARSHY GOOP -

7
SHUDDER! Slithery, gloopy and DARKLEY HOLLOWS - This is
impossible to stand up where Boris and his family (from

3
ODD AREA - This is where pigs fly,
fish ride bicycles and no-one has
heard of Beano. It’s horrible - stay
away!
in, Marshy Goop is home
to the Lesser-spotted
Purple Skink and the
Often-spotted Purple
Skink-eater.
8 AWAY! No-one has ever described
No. 13 Frightville Place) used to live.
If you want to find out
SPOOKY FOREST - BEST KEEP more about what goes on
what they saw here, because they
couldn’t bear to open their eyes.
in Fartmoor in the dead of
night, check out SUPER
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 thanks for agreeing to give look, betty! look!
me and my cousin agnes some hold this a grunt!
skateboarding lessons, jj. second, yet... hey, jj, how many
i mean, cousin skateboarders
no agnes! does it take
problem, to change a
betty. light bulb?

i don’t know.

hey, betty, arrgh! help!

three - one to uh-oh! because
change it, one to why did the it was
film it and one skateboarder wheely
to say, ‘dude! go to the board!
that was sick!’ cinema?

ha-ha!

i don’t
know.
ha!

wheeee!
yeti getting hang here, i’d
of scaryboard! better take but... but...
yeah, at first, i that before
i fell off my skateboard couldn’t find my you injure
yesterday and it flew board... but then yourself!
into the air. it hit me!

oh no!
WORDS & ART: Hugh Raine

really?

hee-hee!

don’t worry, yeti! we

saw it at least! - ed
ThU d!
this joke is
How did the astronaut hold up their trousers? With an asteroid belt! so funnyy!
 so where is it? did
you throw it away?
for last night’s let’s see
homework i asked how badly they
you to bake a cake turned out!
and bring it in.

no, it’s here! it’s

i may have burnt this pile of ash!
mine a bit, teach!

what’s all it’s an experimental you didn’t

sigh! you’re thanks, this, danny? piece, teach! i call it,
just like alfred teach! i am even start the it’s art. you can
‘the deconstructed homework,
the great! pretty cake’. see whatever
great! did you? you want in it!

behold my cake creation!

please, cuthbert... tell but of course, i call it, ‘a study in
me you’ve made something your teacherness. sponge cake’.
to salvage this exercise!

bravo,
cuthbert!
bravo indeed!

come with me, cuthbert! we i’ll just try a ...wow, this

have to get my camera and take little bit so they moustache
a picture of this majesty! won’t know... tastes pretty
WORDS: Andy Fanton ART: David Sutherland

good!
whatever
you say, sir!

what a
crawler!

i wonder if it
tastes as sickly let me
as it looks? have a go!
you weren’t kidding! look at the let me do it! i’m great
who knew cuthbert cake! i think they’ll you’re right! at fixing a mess!
could bake so well? notice we had a maybe we should
little taste! straighten it up hmph! you’d
a smidge. need to be
with that
hair!

yeah! it’s
irritatingly
good!

great job, let me do it!

sid! sheesh!

gerroff! let
i haven’t me finish!
finished yet!

get your maybe they

meathooks won’t notice?
off the cake!

wait, what’s this?

eek!
watch it!

this is a box for what? that takes the

‘crafty cakes cuthbert cake! to the head’s oh, crumbs!
sculptures’! must have office, cuthbert!
cheated!

what?!

i think
cuthbert
got his just
desserts!
chuckle!

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 CALAMITY JAMES The unluckiest boy in the world!
at beanotown-on-sea...
oh, i do like look at that if you hold a
to be beside shell, alex. seashell to
the seaside! your ear, you’ll
hear the sea.

skip! ouch! that i’ll shell you something,

doesn’t sound crumbs! that alex... today has been
WORDS: Danny Pearson ART: Leslie Stannage

like the sea! doesn’t sound like truly clawful!

the sea either.

GNASHER & GNIPPER The adventures of Beanotown’s menace hounds!

son, this is a good moment remaining gnever
to teach you to hold fast steadfast is a good let go!
to your convictions! quality to have!

um, dad?

yes, my boy? you’re both

just hold on! going to the
groomers and
WORDS: Jess Bradley ART: Barrie Appleby

that’s final!

pull harder!

What do you call Santa when he stops moving? Santa Pause!

my arms hurt!
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 billy, look! i can this is a great you could use
see tomorrow’s dodge to get a your whizz-speed i’ll do your done!
maths test on good score in to zip in and steal homework
miss mistry’s the maths test! the answers! tonight.
desk!
i’m not sure.
what if i get
in trouble?

i think
you’re right,
roger. so you distract
what? miss mistry, i’ll
get the test!

do you want oh, yes please!

flaP! Flutter!
to come and i love art!
see some,
erm... art?

hi, miss mistry.

ZOOM! oh no! my whizz-speed

is making the papers
fly everywhere!

one of these it’s all last week’s because, er... i made

homework. you can’t why not?
must be go back in this sculpture... i was a hmm!
the test! class right bit nervous about
now, miss! it. do you like it?
Zip!

ZOOM!

wow. nobody did

well, did they?

achoo! i knew it! you later, in detention...

two were trying to detention for
WORDS: Ned Hartley ART: Wayne Thompson

get tomorrow’s both of you!

maths test! do you still
want me to do
your homework
for you?

no, i just saw

noooo! the marks you got
for last week’s
homework!

What kind of parties do dolls have? A barbie-Q!

 at beanotown cinema... out of the way. it’s sold out, i’m arrgh!
we need tickets. afraid. you’ll have to i can’t wait
try again tomorrow. that long.
i can’t wait to see it’s supposed to have
‘dino world vi’. double the number
of dinosaurs in it
than ‘dino world v’.

ha-ha! i’ll let you

SHOVE! know how it ends!
spoiler alert!

don’t worry,
hey! that’s not fair. i’ve a dino-mite
they jumped the line! dodge in mind.

one trip to this is one back at the cinema… wait here

har har’s joke jurassic dodge, while i get my quick! now’s
shop later… roger. manager. our chance.
roar!

the studio sent us.

stick with me, we’re here as part no-one
dave. try to of the marketing told me
act natural. campaign for about
‘dino world vi’. this.

i didn’t know
this film
was in 3d.

gulp!
it isn’t.
time to ha! do-you-
track down arrgh! think-they-
cruncher. saw-us?

outside…
WORDS: Danny Pearson ART: Barrie Appleby

run! the dinosaurs

are after us!
wow! the special
effects must ha! cruncher and his
save yourselves! meanwhile... friend are history.
be amazing.

they were so
scared. they looked
like tyrannosaurus
wrecks!

What do you give an antique collector for their birthday? Any old thing will do!
You could win an inflatable
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 monday. detention... TUESDAY. detention...
urrgh! as if it’s urrgh! miss,
not bad enough can’t we get separate
getting detention, classrooms?
you have to be here
too, cruncher! aw, not
you again!
hmph! it’s no
picnic for me
either!
settle down
and start
writing out
your lines. no! now settle
down and get on
with your lines!

WEDNESDAY. detention...
get on with our
lines. yeah, i know
what? three days in a the routine by
row? that’s three days now!
too many to be spending
with you, cruncher!
hmph!

silence,
children. now
sit down and... good! i have to
make a quick call, i
do not want to hear
a peep from this
classroom!

what are you in for this time?

yeah! like when thor and
crunching. hulk joined forces! i’d be
i’ve had enough of thor, obviously. you’d be
figures. detentions for this hulk ‘cos, well, you’re a
week. what say we put you mean like bit of a lunk.
you? aside our differences a team-up?
for a bit and get out i don’t know
minxing. of here? what that means
but i think
figures. i like it!

have you got a plan? so...

WORDS: Andy Fanton ART: Laura Howell

i always have a plan.

listen to this... huh? where has minnie gone?

it’s terrible, miss!

she went to get more
paper as she’d done so
many lines, then she
got trapped in the
cupboard!

rop!
d
 the door isn’t
locked! hello, i can’t see her... oh! what’s
minnie? mind you, it is happening?
pretty dark!

lAm!
keep
looking,
miss! she
s
definitely
went in
there!

a !
sne k

operation:
trap creecher i can’t believe oops! i why don’t i hold ha-ha-ha! you dope,
was a complete it worked! dropped my the keys for you minnie! now i’ve got
success! beret! while you pick the keys i’m gonna get
it up? out of here and lock
hello? you in the room with
mrs creecher!

how kind,
cruncher!

also, i didn’t actually lock the so... cruncher! what

cupboard, so mrs c should be were you thinking?
coming out any moment now! and double detention
i knew you’d you’re holding the keys! for you, my lad!
double-cross
me! so i had to
double-cross the
mp!
wu
h
double-crosser huh?
by tying your waah! no! wait!
laces together! come back!

oh, the
door’s bah!
unlocked!

hee-hee!
looks like
cruncher is
double cross
now!

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 SKETCH KHAD Her drawings come to life!
WORDS: Andy Fanton ART: Emily McGorman-Bruce

khadija! sergeant hold still have you seen

slipper’s after me! you’ve a minute. minnie anywhere?
gotta help me!
pain nope, no-one
here but me and raar!
t ! my tiger!

no worries, oh, sorry to

minnie! i’ve bother you!
got just
the thing!

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what’s this? hmph! i’m not get out, you! huh?! don’t act
‘steviecon’? ha! taking that! so con-fused,
that’s not a real security! cruncher...
convention!
WORDS: Andy Fanton ART: Nick Brennan

pathetic!
security?
yeah, right!

...you’ve been
con-quered!
chuckle!

MAHIRA OF THE MATCH She’s football crazy!

during mahira! that i told you what would so...
training... was a foul! happen if you kept playing
like that… you’re going
to have to do some lines! i didn’t realise i’d chuckle!
be doing these
lines! groan!
WORDS: Andy Fanton ART: Mel Prats

writing
what? i barely a few lines
touched him! doesn’t sound
too bad!

PUP PARADE Starring the Bash Street dogs!

oh no! i must have arrgh! but they
dropped my keys! also dig holes! maybe
where are they? they’re
ah yes! dogs here?
no worries, can sniff out
sir! the pups anything!
will find
them!
WORDS & ART: Lew Stringer

or here? or even
here?
 hee-hee! i’m gonna hey, what’s this i’ve never
scare heena with these door behind seen that door
giant cobwebs! the shelves? before. weird!

it’s an old part of the

shop that must have been this whoopee
closed off and forgotten cushion’s seen
about decades ago. better days.

look! there’s a
bunch of olden
days jokes still
on the shelves. phuff!

cough!

fake dog poo, i think it’s time

itching powder, we updated our
rubber snake! trick soap... wait... products, dad! how embarrassing.

...they’re all
the same as
we have the ones in
those in our shop!
our shop.
big deal!
WORDS: Hugh Raine ART: Emily McGorman-Bruce

it’s probably just

more ancient
hey, everyone! stock anyway!
there’s another
door back here.

hello? ah,
forget it!

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 remember your cover shh! here comes the
story - you’re a fancy s.m.i.r.k. agent! stick
businessman offering to to your story, okay?
sell s.m.i.r.k.* top-secret
plans for a doom ray!
that’s a dull
cover story...

okay, dan, are

you ready for
this undercover
mission?

urrgh, fine.

*secret ministry of
intelligent rotters
kommittee. - ed

are you the fancy and on top of that,

businessman? ...but i’m so much i’m a champion gymnast!
more than that! check this out!
i’m also a hotshot
race-car driver!
i guess so... but
this fake moustache
keeps slipping!

uh, yeah... huh?

you should see

me on the track! dan! stick to
i’m like a rocket! the story!
neeeeeow!

sorry! must dash! so... dan! you nearly blew

the entire operation!
waah! i can’t see! yeah, but we
you’re not a fancy
businessman! you’re made it… by a
dangerous dan! hair! chuckle!
WORDS: Andy Fanton ART: The Sharp Bros

k!
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oops! my
moustache!

What do you get if you cross a frog with a sieve? Leak-frog!

 pocket money gasp! it’s
day! i have five what are you five pounds? pah! general blight.
whole pounds! going to spend that’s nothing, my... i mean,
it on, eric? small boy! bananaman’s
greatest
enemy!

bananas, you must

of course! really love
bananas!

i’ve decided to stop

being a supervillain and a billionaire?
become a billionaire! isn’t that pretty
much the same
as being a
supervillain?

yes, pretty much.

but you can sue
anyone who says
that you are.

i need to
distract blight
while i turn into
bananaman.

that’s
enough from bananaman?!
look over there! you, general where did you
someone’s saying this looks like blight! come from?! also,
that rich people a minimum wage i haven’t
should pay taxes! job for... done
anything

oom
! yet!

what? Faz
where? how
dare they!
...bananaman!

oh... yeah.
well, go billionaires
on then. aren’t evil, actually!
WORDS: Ned Hartley ART: Wayne Thompson

i contribute a lot to
society! look! i have lots of
rich people things, like
this solid gold plane!
 nooo! so many ads!
this must be... gasp...
too heavy to fly? i used my huge yes, it’s not as
amounts of GASP! funny any more
money to make after i meddled
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but there isn’t even any aren’t you going to use all
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the news all the anything important! wouldn’t that be the right wouldn’t
time just because thing to do? have all this
i’m rich! i’m rich, so money any
it must be more!
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this is very silly. i bet i can

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 it’s lunchtime... no, dad packed his experiment instead!
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sandwich under a microscope!
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spil l!
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gurgle!
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having some
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can help us!
scream!
why is pizza
attacking us?!
WORDS: Jess Bradley ART: Emily McGorman-Bruce

crunch!
oh, goodness! you did it, groan! i really
leave this pie face! pepper-owned
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urrgh... what
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 there’s a lot going edd needs something. but what? inside edd’s head... hold on!
on in edd’s head...
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a thingy? the word for a
thingamabob...

...a doodah...
huh? you know... a a word’s gone
a whatchamacallit. whatsitsname! into hiding!

the numskulls search the

head for the missing word... ...i don’t know
any big words! there it is!
if it’s a small but if it’s a big get it!
i don’t word like, ‘cat’, we word like er...
like this! can handle that.

..er...

pen! the i don’t want to go why didn’t you it’s okay, we know
word is pen! out there. i like it say so, buddy? what to do.
in the head.

no!

out you go! that’s that sorted!

now thingy me a
arrgh!
pen! whatchamacallit so i
can whosit the whatsit.
WORDS & ART: Nigel Auchterlounie

here we go
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WORDS: Nigel Auchterlounie ART: George Gant

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vroom!
WORDS: Hugh Raine ART: Wayne Thompson

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ninjas are known for their

ability to sneak into any don’t do that! where’s
place unseen and unheard... here! he gone?!
arrgh!

edd?

here!

jake? jake?
jake? has
anyone seen
jake? no?
okay, then...

ninjas can easily no biscuit tin is safe when

sneak into the cinema before we master jake is around...
without paying... play the who said that?
film, are
there any i know you can
ninjas in hear me, jake.
here?

no! it’s dinner soon! stay

away from the biscuits!
jake’s ninja skills are good in the bank...
for pinching other things...
...money? what just
happened?
i can see the money’s
back. how, though?!

ha-ha-ha! i’m
going on i don’t know! i
holiday with turned around, and
all this... there it was!
WORDS: Nigel Auchterlounie ART: Hunt Emerson

never play hide and four even later still...

seek with a ninja... hours got ya! oh, he’s
coming, later... not here
ready or either.
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