- If you are looking for a list of comic strips that appeared in The Beezer see List of Beezer comic strips, for a list that appeared in The Topper see List of Topper comic strips
In 1990 The Beezer merged with The Topper to form a new comic known as the Beezer and Topper. This new comic ended in 1993 after 153 issues. A number of characters from this comic went on to appear in either The Beano or The Dandy. The following is a list of all the strips that appeared in the Beezer and Topper, all numbers refer to issues of Beezer and Topper.
Strip Title [1] | Artist[1] | First Appearance[1] | Last Appearance[1] | Original comic[1] | Notes |
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Sting | Bob Dewar | 1 | 153 | The Beezer | |
Geezer | Robert Nixon | 1 | 153 | The Beezer | |
The Banana Bunch | Tom Paterson | 1 | 153 | The Beezer | |
The Numskulls | Steve Bright | 1 | 153 | The Beezer | Continued in The Beano |
The Historiskulls | Steve Bright | 1 | 4 | ||
Blinky | George Martin | 1 | 153 | The Beezer | Spin-off of Colonel Blink
Later appeared in The Dandy |
Adrian the Barbarian | Sid Burgon | 1 | 153 | The Beezer | Reprinted in The Beano in 2008 as Olaff the Madlander |
Baby Crockett | Bill Ritchie | 1 | 153 | The Beezer | |
Pop, Dick and Harry | Brian Walker | 1 | 98 | The Beezer | |
Beryl the Peril | Robert Nixon | 1 | 153 | The Topper | Continued in The Dandy |
Robohog | John Geering | 1 | 119 | ||
Fred's Bed | Tom Paterson | 1 | 153 | Reprinted in The Beano in 2007.
Then appeared in new strips in The Beano from 2009 onwards. | |
Tricky Dicky | John Dallas | 1 | 153 | The Topper | Later appeared in The Beano |
Send for Kelly | George Martin | 1 | 85 | The Topper | Appeared in Dennis the Menace TV series episode "The Day TV Was Banned" |
Scaredy Cat | John Dallas | 1 | 152 | The Topper | |
Crazy Daisy | Gordon Bell | 1 | 119 | ||
Des Troy | Barrie Appleby | 1 | 148 | ||
Little Mo | Bob McGrath | 1 | 73 | The Beezer | |
Birdbrain | John Geering | 2 | 72 | ||
Gnatasha | Bill Ritchie | 3 | 152 | About one of Gnasher (from The Beano)'s daughters | |
Foxy | Evi De Bono | 5 | 127 | The Topper | |
History of Art | Jim Petrie | 5 | 22 | ||
Pup Parade | Gordon Bell | 12 | 120 | The Beano, later The Topper | Later resurrected in The Beano |
Wabits | Gordon Bell | 17 | 46 | The Beezer | |
Fairy Grotto | Barry Glennard | 35 | 147 | ||
Ghost | David Mostyn | 35 | 153 | Later retooled into The Dandy character Hector Spectre. | |
PXQZTKLE | John Geering | 35 | 153 | ||
Baby Blue | John Geering | 35 | 152 | ||
Stormin' Norma | Trevor Metcalfe | 42 | 153 | ||
In the News | Bill Ritchie | 58 | 148 | ||
Beryl's Beaus | Vic Neill | 65 | 69 | ||
Silly Sausage | Gordon Bell | 74 | 153 | ||
Atilla the Hen | Bob Dewar | 84 | 153 | ||
Window Poster | Barrie Appleby | 87 | 92 | Continued in The Dandy | |
Potsworth & Co. | Barrie Appleby | 87 | 153 | Continued in The Dandy
Based on a Hanna-Barbera cartoon | |
Rats | Vic Neill | 87 | 153 | ||
Pikassos | Brock | 87 | 152 | ||
Ishara's test of time quiz | 87 | 152 | |||
Julius Beezer | Barry Glennard | 103 | 153 | ||
Sam the Slam | John Geering | 106 | 148 | ||
Over the Fence | Jimmy Hansen | 106 | 153 | ||
Even Steven | Gordon Bell | 106 | 153 | ||
Madverts | Bill Ritchie | 117 | 123 | ||
Grown-ups | David Sutherland | 132 | 138 | ||
Darwin | Bob Dewar | 132 | 137 | ||
Around the universe in eighty minutes | Bob Dewar | 138 | 145 | ||
A cat's guide | David Mostyn | 151 | 153 |