Over the years The Beano has had many different strips, ranging from comic strips to adventure strips to prose stories. Prose stories were the first to go, being phased out in 1955. Adventure strips were phased out in 1975, with the last one being General Jumbo (There have been unsuccessful attempts to reintroduce adventure strips with new series of Billy the Cat and Katie in 2003, 2005 and 2009.) The longest-running strip in The Beano is Dennis the Menace, which has been running for seventy years. Other long-running strips include Biffo the Bear, Minnie the Minx, Roger the Dodger, The Bash Street Kids, Little Plum, and Billy Whizz. As of 2015, The Beano has been home to 371 different strips (with a further seventeen strips appearing in Comic Idol competitions and not later appearing in th