Editing The Beano (section)

===Crossovers===
{{see also|Classics from the Comics}}
[[File:Beano comic characters' cameo in 80th anniversary.jpg|thumb|220px|The 80th-anniversary comic memorably features characters from the first issue and the rest of 1938. '''Left to right:''' [[Wee Peem]], [[Tin-Can Tommy]], [[Pansy Potter]], [[Lord Snooty]], and Big Fat Joe.]]
''The Beano'' allows its characters from different strips to interact with each other. Reprinting old stories or redistributing characters into other magazines is common throughout DC Thomson's history, as if the stories are set in the [[shared universe|same universe]]. The ''[[Lord Snooty]]'' series discontinued old characters and replaced them with ''Beano'' strip characters of the past;<ref>See [[Lord Snooty#The new friends from 1950 onwards]].</ref> ''Dennis the Menace'' featured in DC Thomson's ''Champ'' magazine in the mid-1980s and ''The Weekly News'' tabloid-magazine for four years in the 1950s.{{sfnp|''History of The Beano''|2008|p=316}} ''Morgyn the Mighty'',<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Morgyn the Mighty|date=1938-07-30|magazine=The Beano Comic|last=Anderson|first=George|publisher=D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.|issue=1|editor-last=Moonie|editor-first=George|publication-date=1938-07-26}}</ref> ''[[Tricky Dicky (Topper)|Tricky Dicky]]'',<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Tricky Dicky|date=1999-07-03|magazine=The Beano|last=Dallas|first=John|publisher=D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.|issue=2972|editor-last=Kerr|editor-first=Euan|publication-date=1999-07-01}}</ref> ''[[Bananaman]]''<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Bananaman|date=2012-01-14|magazine=The Beano|editor-last=Stirling|editor-first=Michael|publisher=DC Thomson|publication-date=2012-01-11}}</ref> and ''[[Corporal Clott]]'' were stories previously from ''The Rover'',<ref name="Morgyn"/> ''The Topper'',<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Tricky Dicky|magazine=The Topper|publisher=D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.|issue=1276|date=1977-07-16}}</ref> ''Nutty''<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Bananaman|date=1980-02-16|magazine=Nutty|last1=Donaldson|first1=David|last2=Bright|first2=Steve|publisher=D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.|issue=1}}</ref> and ''The Dandy'',<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Corporal Clott|date=1960-11-12|magazine=[[The Dandy]]|last=Law|first=David|issue=990|editor-last=Barnes|editor-first=Albert}}</ref> respectively, whereas one of [[Gnasher]]'s puppies had her own strip in ''The Beezer and Topper''<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Gnatasha|date=1990-10-06|magazine=[[The Beezer and Topper]]|last=Richie|first=Bill|publisher=D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.|issue=3}}</ref> and [[Jackie (magazine)|''Jackie'' magazine]].{{sfnp|''80 Years''|2018 |p=67}}