The Fun Size Beano and Fun Size Dandy are children's comics, published four times monthly by DC Thomson and Co. Ltd. They are spin-offs of the weekly comics, The Beano and The Dandy. They first appeared in 1997 replacing the Beano and Dandy comic libraries, which appeared in red, white and black, but now featured mainly colour.

As of 2006 two comics a month were reprints from the 1990s, but as of 2007 all four are reprints, hardly any new strips featuring.(e.g. In a recent Beano edition, a 2 page Biffo the Bear comic was the only new strip in it.)

If you join The Beano Club, you receive a special version of a Fun Size Beano, called the Beano Club Special. This was originally printed in 1999,and contains some reprints from 1980s annuals, alongside some new strips by Barrie Appleby and Nigel Parkinson. Another two new characters are Stunt Boy drawn by Nick Brennan and Lester the Jester.

Characters in Fun Size Beano

Ball Boy, Dennis the Menace, Ivy the Terrible, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Billy Whizz, Roger the Dodger, Les Pretend, The Numskulls, Little Plum no longer features. Bash Street Bugs no longer features. Bea occasionally. Biffo, Stunt Boy, Lester the Jester and Erbert from the Bash Street Kids.

See also

• List of DC Thomson publications