| Free Gifts |
| Here is a list of all the free gifts given with the Beano Comics throughout the years and any other relevant information about these free gifts, I seriously doubt there are many of any of them left, and probably none of the Sweets, so any with the relevant comic are probably worth a lot. |
| 1938: |
| Beano No 1 (30/7/38) - Whoopee Mask Only one known to exist, together with the comic is probably worth over �10,000 Beano No 2 (6/8/38) - 8 Sugar Button Sweets I ate these when I bought Beano No 2 Beano No 15 (5/11/38) - Jelly Baby Sweets Beano No 21 (17/12/38) - Merry Xmas Mask |
| 1939: |
| Beano No 36 (1/4/39) - Big Bang Fun Gun Beano No 47 (17/6/39) - Licorice Bow Beano No 69 (18/11/39) - Licorice Pipe |
| 1940: |
| Beano No 90 (13/4/39) - 2 Licorice Black eyes Last Free gift to be given with the Beano Comic for over 20 Years (probably beacause of war shortages) |
| 1960: |
| Beano No 953 (22/10/60) - Flying Snorter Baloon Beano No 954 (29/10/60) - Beano Clicketty Clicker Last Free gift until 1971. |
| No more free gifts until 1971 BUT there was a series of Beano Cut-out puppets from 1967 to 1969 and I guess these are kind of Free Gifts, and (as I really have nothing better to do) i'll list them all here. |
| 1967: |
| Beano No 1308 (12/8/67) - Biffo the Bear and Buster Beano No 1321 (11/11/67) - Wilfred (Bash Street Kids) Beano No 1322 (18/11/67) - Spotty (Bash Street Kids) Beano No 1323 (25/11/67) - 'Erbert (Bash Street Kids) Beano No 1324 (2/12/67) - Toots (Bash Street Kids) Beano No 1325 (9/12/67) - Teacher (Bash Street Kids) Beano No 1326 (16/12/67) - Danny (Bash Street Kids) Beano No 1327 (23/12/67) - Smiffy (Bash Street Kids) Beano No 1328 (30/12/67) - Sidney (Bash Street Kids) |
| 1968: |
| Beano No 1329 (6/1/68) - Winston the Cat (Bash Street Kids) Beano No 1330 (13/1/68) - Fatty (Bash Street Kids) Beano No 1331 (20/1/68) - Headmaster (Bash Street Kids) Beano No 1332 (27/1/68) - Janitor (Bash Street Kids) Beano No 1333 (3/2/68) - Bones and Sniffy (Bash Street Pups) Beano No 1334 (10/2/68) - Pug (Bash Street Pups) Beano No 1335 (17/2/68) - Wiggy and Manfred (Bash Street Pups) Beano No 1336 (24/2/68) - Plug (Bash Street Kids) - maybe they forgot earlier? Beano No 1337 (2/3/68) - Peeps and Blotty (Bash Strreet Pups) Beano No 1338 (9/3/68) - Tubby and 'Enry (Bash Street Pups) Beano No 1339 (16/3/68) - Little Plum Beano No 1340 (23/3/68) - Roger the Dodger Beano No 1341 (30/3/68) - Ted (3 Bears) Beano No 1342 (6/4/68) - Ma (3 Bears) Beano No 1343 (13/4/68) - Pa (3 Bears) Beano No 1344 (20/4/68) - Chief (Little Plum) Beano No 1345 (27/4/68) - Pimple (Little Plum) Beano No 1346 (4/5/68) - Grizzly Gus (3 Bears) Beano No 1347 (11/5/68) - Billy Whizz and Alfie (His Brother) Beano No 1348 (18/5/68) - Minnie the Minx Beano No 1349 (25/5/68) - Dennis the Menace Beano No 1350 (1/6/68) - Walter the Softy Beano No 1351 (8/6/68) - Lord Snooty Beano No 1352 (15/6/68) - Scrapper (Lord Snooty) Beano No 1353 (22/6/68) - Rosie (Lord Snooty) Beano No 1354 (29/6/68) - Doubting Thomas Beano No 1355 (6/7/68) - Snitch and Snatch (Hooray!!!) Beano No 1356 (13/7/68) - Big Fat Joe (No, that really was what they called him) Beano No 1357 (20/7/68) - Swanky Lanky Liz (Lord Snooty) Beano No 1358 (27/7/68) - Polly (Lord Snooty) Beano No 1359 (3/8/68) - Professer Screwtop (Lord Snooty) Beano No 1360 (10/8/68) - Aunt Mat (Lord Snooty) Beano No 1361 (17/8/68) - Danny on a Dolphin Beano No 1362 (24/8/68) - Biffo's Nephews (Biffo the Bear) Beano No 1363 (31/8/68) - Dr Kildeer (Little Plum) Beano No 1364 (7/9/68) - Hole-in-um-head (Little Plum) Beano No 1365 (14/9/68) - Treaclefoot (Little Plum) Beano No 1366 (21/9/68) - Hank Huckleberry (3 Bears) Beano No 1367 (28/9/68) - Gussie (3 Bears) |
| 1969: |
| Beano No 1397 (26/4/69) - Billy the Cat |
| 1974: |
| Beano No 1678 (14/9/74) - The Happy Howler Siren Beano No 1679 (21/9/74) - The Super Zoomer Balloon No free gifts as far as I know until 1977 |
| 1977: |
| Beano No 1818 (21/5/77) - Pop Pistol Beano No 1819 (28/5/77) - Super Skimmer Beano No 1820 (4/6/77) - Dennis and Gnasher Chewy Toffee Bar |
| 1978: |
| Beano No 1892 (21/10/78) - Super Fruity Lollipop Beano No 1893 (28/10/78) - Dennis the Menace Glove Puppet Not to be confused with the Double-Sided Dennis and Gnasher Glove puppet from 1985 and the Gnasher Glove Puppet from 1980 |
| 1980: |
| Beano No 1970 (19/4/80) - The Gnasher Snapper Not to be confused with the Gnasher Snapper from 1984 andanother one made at a very recent date Beano No 1971 (26/4/80) - The Gnasher Glove Puppet No more free gifts until 1984 |
| 1984: |
| Beano No 2201 (22/9/84) - The Gnasher Snapper Beano No 2202 (29/9/84) - Dennis and Gnasher Stickers Beano No 2203 (6/10/84) - Leaf Strawberry Bubble Gum |
| Back to the proper Free Gifts now. |
| 1985: |
| Beano No 2254 (28/9/85) - Dennis and Gnasher Double sided Glove Puppet Beano No 2255 (5/10/85) - 3 Super Stickers (Dennis 2, Plug 1) Beano No 2306 (27/9/86) - Hot Cinnamon Flavour Blasting Powder Popping Candy Beano No 2311 (1/11/86) - Twirly Copter Beano No 2360 (10/10/87) - Highland Toffee Bar Beano No 2361 (17/10/87) - Beano Button Badge Beano No 2379 (20/2/88) - Dandy-Beano Celebration Sticker Album and 6 Stickers Beano No 2380 (27/2/88) - 6 Free Stickers Beano No 2381 (5/3/88) - 6 Free Stickers Beano No 2394 (4/6/88) - McCowan Tangy Lemon and Lime Bar Beano No 2402 (30/7/88) - Beano 50th Anniversary Celebration Poster The Only Free gift that was ever any good! Beano No 2415 (29/10/88) - Rainbow Fruit Flavour Nerds Beano No 2445 (27/5/89) - McCowans Dennis the Menace Blackcurrant and Raspberry Flavour Chew Bar Beano No 2460 (9/9/89) - Fizzers Sweets Beano No 2465 (14/10/89) - "The Magic of the Beano" Sticker Album Beano No 2466 (21/10/89) - Pack of 5 Free Stickers After that everyone got a Refresher Bar every 2 weeks |
| 1986: |
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| 1988: |
| 1989: |
| 1971: |
| Beano No 1522 (18/9/71) - The Flying Fizzer Beano No 1523 (25/9/71) - The Humming Birdie Thanks go to Phil-comics for pointing out that I forgot this one :) |