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EPIC Magazine (Previously known as Dennis the Menace and Gnasher's EPIC Magazine (2014–2016), 100% Official Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Megazine (2013–2014) and BeanoMAX (2007–2013)) was a monthly British comic magazine published by D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd It was originally a spin-off of the UK comic, The Beano. Each issue had 40 pages and costs £3.99.

The first issue was published on 15 February 2007 and was a Comic Relief special. The BeanoMAX title ceased with issue #79 in June 2013, and the following issue #80 was rebranded as 100% Official Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Megazine. It was renamed again to Dennis and Gnasher's EPIC Magazine a year later and was shortened to its current name in 2016. The magazine was cancelled in 2019.

Strips

During the BeanoMAX era, the strips also starred in the weekly Beano. However, some of these started in the weekly, and also starred in BeanoMAX, but ended up being removed from the weekly (still showing sometimes, but only once every few months) and carrying on in the 'MAX, for example, the Neds. There are now only two original strips in the monthly comic which have never appeared in the Beano.

Regular strips

• Beano All Stars
• Bananaman (reprints)
• Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
• Fight My Monster (moved to weekly Beano)
• Wallace & Gromit (moved to weekly Beano)

Previous strips

• Auntie Clockwise, from The Dandy, reprints from the early 2000s by Wayne Thompson.
• Baby Face Finlayson
• The Bash Street Kids, drawn by Nigel Parkinson with others by David Sutherland.
• Billy Whizz
• Calamity James, reprints from the early 2000s drawn by Tom Paterson.
• Derek the Sheep
• Doctor Beastly's Tales of the Slightly Unpleasant, reprints from the early 2000s drawn by Brian Walker.
• Football Earth, about Mother Nature playing football, yet another strip never to have featured in the Beano. Commonly known as Soccer Earth.
• Gnasher's Bite
• Kick-Ass Koalas, a BeanoMAX exclusive by Peter Player.
• The Legend of Little Plum, reprints from the 1990s by Tom Paterson.
• Max, the first strip never to have made an appearance in the Beano.
• Meebo and Zuky
• Meebo and Zuky's History of Violence
• Minnie the Minx, sometimes as a reprint.
• The Neds
• The Numskulls
• Roger the Dodger, a special photo strip appeared in December 2008.
• Super School, stock-piled stories from The Beano.
• The 3 Bears, reprints from the 2000s by Mike Pearse.
• Evil Edgar
• Willy Nilly

100% Official Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Megazine Strips

• Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
• Pie-Face (moved to weekly Beano)
• The Adventures of Paul the Potato (moved to weekly Beano)
• Angel Face

Regular features

• CSI Beanotown - a half page sharing Bananaman villains' profiles, accompanied with a 2.5-page Bananaman story reprinted from Nutty.
• Gee Whizz - a page about records from Guinness World Records featuring Billy Whizz.
• Gnasher's Deadliest Animals - a double-page spread of dangerous animals with captions from Gnasher.
• W&G Pull-out - an 8-page pull-out about Wallace and Gromit including a three-page comic strip, a page of inventions and a Where's Shaun puzzle page.

Previous features

• The Lowdown - entrance feature. Also includes a contents bar at the side.
• Fashion Victims - A humorous joke about certain people and what they dress like, e.g. goths, nature lovers. Drawn by Duncan Scott, who also draws The Neds.
• The Arcade - Game reviews by 'The Game Hunter'.
• Game Gurus - An extended "Arcade" feature that gives game cheats and hints, by two boys - Jamie and Josh.
• A pull-out poster (occasionally)
• Puzzle pages, with a theme and name having something to do with the issue, for example, the "Wild Creatures" puzzle page is full of animal puzzles, and entitled "Creature Conundrums".
• MAX-imum - 2 pages worth of free prizes, won by telephone calls.
• Subscription offers and Beano Club forms.

Logos

The logo has always been a combination of the old Beano logo (from 1977–1998), slightly updated with the help of computer technology, and a blue, graffito style MAX alongside it. The original logo had the Beano logo as it was on the weekly comic, with the MAX overlapping it slightly at the right. In late 2007, the MAX part of the logo started to grow in size. It was almost twice the height as the Beano logo at one point. In 2008, for 3 issues in the summer, the logo changed so that the MAX was predominant to the Beano logo. Instead of the Beano logo running horizontal, it was now vertical, alongside the MAX which was by now on a diagonal bar. After these three issues, the BeanoMAX logo changed back to the style it had gained in late 2007. In 2009, the logo changed again, with the Beano logo directly above the MAX logo.

References

1. "Doctor Who joins Beano comic cast". BBC News. 10 February 2007.

External links

• BeanoMax's Official Website (archived)

v t e DC Thomson comics
Currently running comics	The Beano Commando Fun Section in The Sunday Post
Adventure comics	Adventure Bullet Buddy Champ Commando The Crunch The Hornet The Hotspur The Rover The Skipper Spike Starblazer The Vanguard The Victor Warlord The Wizard
Girls' comics	Bunty Judy Mandy Nikki
Humour comics	The Beano The Beezer Buzz Classics from the Comics Cracker The Dandy EPIC Magazine Fun Size Comics Hoot The Magic Comic Nutty Plug Sparky The Topper
Pre-school comics	Bimbo The Magic Comic Twinkle
Notable strips	Alf Tupper Baby Crockett Bananaman The Bash Street Kids Beryl the Peril Black Bob Biffo the Bear Big Eggo The Broons Calamity James Cuddles and Dimples Dennis the Menace Desperate Dan Ginger Gnasher Ivy the Terrible Jonah Keyhole Kate Korky the Cat Little Plum Lord Snooty Matt Braddock Mickey the Monkey Minnie the Minx Nero and Zero The Numskulls Oor Wullie Pansy Potter Send for Kelly Roger the Dodger Tricky Dicky Willy Nilly Winker Watson Wilson the Wonder Athlete Wolf of Kabul
Comic annuals	The Beano Annual The Beezer Book The Bimbo Book The Dandy Annual The Hotspur Book for Boys The Sparky Book The Topper Book The Victor Book for Boys Warlord Book for Boys
Character annuals	Bananaman Annual The Bash Street Kids Annual Beryl the Peril Annual Black Bob Book The Broons Annual Dennis the Menace Annual The Desperate Dan Book Oor Wullie Annual
Notable artists	Barrie Appleby Nigel Auchterlounie Leo Baxendale Gordon Bell Nick Brennan Paddy Brennan Sid Burgon Reg Carter Wilbur Dawbarn Karl Dixon The Etherington Brothers Hunt Emerson Andy Fanton John Geering Barry Glennard Charles Grigg Ken H. Harrison Laura Howell Diego Jourdan Malcolm Judge David Law Trevor Metcalfe Allan Morley David Mostyn Vic Neill Robert Nixon Gary Northfield Nigel Parkinson Tom Paterson Jim Petrie Ken Reid Bill Ritchie David Parkins Jon Rushby Jamie Smart Lew Stringer David Sutherland Kev F. Sutherland Dudley D. Watkins Stevie White
Notable writers	Mike Chinn Gilbert Lawford Dalton Alan Grant Ian Gray R. D. Low Grant Morrison John Radford Cavan Scott John Smith
See also	List of D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd publications List of AP, Fleetway and IPC Comics publications List of Beano comic strips List of Dandy comic strips List of Topper comic strips List of Beezer comic strips List of Beezer and Topper comic strips
Category

v t e The Beano
DC Thomson R. D. Low
Stories	1938-1939 Big Eggo Hairy Dan Helpful Henry Lord Snooty Morgyn the Mighty Pansy Potter Ping the Elastic Man Tin-Can Tommy Wee Peem 1940s Biffo the Bear Jack Flash Jimmy and his Magic Patch Winnie the Witch 1950s The Bash Street Kids (Pup Parade, Simply Smiffy, Singled Out, Winston) Dennis the Menace (Bea, Gnasher, Walter the Softy, Rasher) General Jumbo Grandpa Jonah Little Plum Minnie the Minx (Fatty Fudge) Roger the Dodger The Three Bears 1960s Billy the Cat Billy Whizz Colonel Crackpot's Circus 1970s Baby Face Finlayson The Belles of St. Lemons Gnasher's Tale The McTickles The Nibblers Richard the Lion Tom, Dick and Sally 1980s Calamity James Danny's Nanny The Germs Gnasher and Gnipper Ivy the Terrible Number 13 Beano Street 1990s Beaginnings Betty and the Yeti Crazy for Daisy Gordon Bennett Joe King Les Pretend The Numskulls Tim Traveller Tricky Dicky 2000s Colin the Vet Derek the Sheep Freddie Fear Joe Jitsu Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green Lord Snooty the Third Olaff the Madlander Ratz Robbie Rebel Splodge Super School 2010s Bananaman Corporal Clott Meebo and Zuky
Other media	Spin-off media The Beano Annual List of Beano comic strips by annual Beano comic libraries/Fun Size Comics EPIC Magazine The Beano Summer Special Dennis the Menace Annual The Magic Comic Plug Adaptations Bananaman (TV series) (BBC, 1983-1986) The Beano's Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Show (TCC, 1990–91) The Beano Video (1993) The Beano Videostars (1994) Dennis and Gnasher (BBC, 1996–98) Dennis and Gnasher (BBC, 2009–13) Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! (BBC, 2017-present) Banananman Musical (2017-2018)
Creator staff	D.C. Thomson artists Leo Baxendale Paddy Brennan Jim Petrie Ken Reid Dudley D. Watkins Freelance artists Barrie Appleby Nigel Auchterlounie Gordon Bell Basil Blackaller Nick Brennan Sid Burgon Reg Carter Wilbur Dawbarn Hunt Emerson Andy Fanton John Geering Barry Glennard Harry Hargreaves Ken H. Harrison Laura Howell Diego Jourdan Malcolm Judge David Law Trevor Metcalfe Allan Morley David Mostyn Vic Neill Robert Nixon Gary Northfield David Parkins Nigel Parkinson Tom Paterson Mike Pearse Dean Rankine Bill Ritchie Jon Rushby Cavan Scott Duncan Scott Jamie Smart Lew Stringer David Sutherland Kev F. Sutherland Stevie White
History	The Beano timeline
Category

• DC Thomson Comics titles
• The Beano
• Comics magazines published in the United Kingdom
• Magazines established in 2007
• British humour comics
• 2007 comics debuts
• Comics spin-offs
• Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
• Defunct British comics
• Defunct children's magazines published in the United Kingdom
• Magazines disestablished in 2013