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Uh-oh! Here comes trouble!

IT WAS FOR NASTY WALTER!

THIS IS DENNIS THE MENACE. DON’T WORRY, THAT TOMATO ISN’T MEANT FOR YOU!

THE YETI IN THE FOREST…

Why The Long Face, Walter?

I Hate This Town.

THE ZOO ESCAPES…

THE HAUNTED HOUSE…

WHAT? BEANOTOWN IS AWESOME! IT’S A BIT QUIET TODAY, BUT WHAT ABOUT…

THE CAVES UNDER THE SCHOOL…

THE SKATEPARK…

BANANAMAN…

THE MUTANT RATS…

THE SEWER CROCS…

DENNIS, YOU’RE A FOOL! ALL THOSE THINGS ARE JUST A FIGMENT OF YOUR CHILDISH IMAGINATION! IF YOU’D ONLY GROW UP A BIT, YOU’D SEE THAT IT WAS TRUE!

…AND THE ISLAND IN THE DUCK POND, WITH ITS STRANGE CREATURES AND LOST CIVILISATIONS!

DON’T FORGET THERE’S A BUTCHER!

BAH!

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TOP 10 JOKES!

What do frogs drink?

Croaka-cola!

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE A FIGMENT RIGHT IN THE KISSER?

Tick it when you’ve told it!

JUST THEN…

this is beanoland...

DENNIS! YOU KNOW BEANOLAND THEME PARK?

IT’S FINALLY GETTING A ROLLERCOASTER – THE VOMIT COMET!

HEY! THESE AREN’T THE TEACUPS!

YEAH, IT’S TOTALLY LAME.

IT’S JUST SOME OLD BATHS!

BUT SOME GROWN-UPS WANT IT STOPPED!

USE YOUR IMAGINATION, SON! IMAGINE YOU’RE HAVING FUN.

see? totally lame!

AT THE TOWN HALL…

AARGHH!

I CAN SPEAK FOR ALL OF BEANOTOWN’S CHILDREN!

WHY ARE GROWN-UPS SO PANTS?!

THE KIDS IN THIS TOWN ARE OUT-OF-CONTROL!

THE LAST THING THEY NEED IS A ROLLERCOASTER!

WELL, I’M GLAD WE’VE HEARD FROM A CHILD…

WE DON’T NEED EXCITEMENT! NOT WHEN WE HAVE THE THRILL OF SITTING STILL…

UH-OH! HERE’S SNEAKY WALTER AGAIN!

WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM, WALTER?

THAT’S NOT A CHILD! THAT’S WALTER!

…THE JOY OF LISTENING, AND THE FUN OF DOING WHAT WE’RE TOLD! mwah-HA-HA! WHY, INDEED? WHY DO YOU HAVE TO STAMP ON EVERYBODY ELSE’S FUN?!

WELL, I COULD BAN IT, I SUPPOSE. BUT WHAT DO THE KIDS THINK?

THEY’LL NEVER KNOW THAT IT’S FUN FOR ME TO SPOIL THE FUN OF OTHERS…

AND THAT ONE DAY I’LL BE PRIME MINISTER AND BAN FUN COMPLETELY… AND EVERYONE WILL HAVE TO DO EXACTLY AS THEY’RE TOLD! THAT’S WHY I HATE DENNIS… HE NEVER DOES WHAT HE’S TOLD!

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MAYBE THIS RIDE SHOULD BE BANNED.

ER… DID I SAY THAT OUT LOUD?

I NEED TO THINK ABOUT it SOME MORE.

HEY, LISTEN TO THIS!

I’LL MAKE MY MIND UP BY THE END OF THE DAY. UNTIL THEN, YOU LOT HAD BETTER PROVE TO ME THAT YOU CAN BEHAVE!

UGH!

HMM…

I Hate Fart Noises!

ON THE WAY HOME…

heh-heh! you’re funny!

YOU’RE NOT LISTENING! WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING?

DAD, YOU’VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING TO HELP!

THIS ISN’T A GAME – THIS IS MAPS!

LOOK, ALL YOU AND YOUR PALS HAVE TO DO IS BEHAVE FOR A DAY. THEN THE MAYOR WILL LET THE RIDE OPEN.

THAT’S NICE, DENNIS. A GAME I FOUND ON MY PHONE. AARGHH!

BEHAVE?

CLOSE BY… FOR A DAY? THIS IS SO UNFAIR!

THIS IS IT! THE START OF EVERYTHING!

DUDE, YOU’RE STILL TALKING OUT LOUD!

TODAY, BEANOTOWN – TOMORROW, THE COUNTRY… AND THEN THE WORLD!

JUST REMEMBER THE MAYOR HATES FART NOISES AND IT’LL BE FINE!

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Catfish!

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The girl who’s tougher than all the boys!

I bet I can get minnie to cause loads of trouble, which will persuade the mayor to cancel that rollercoaster!

playing with my dolls.

hi, minnie! what are you doing?

you really are one of the menace squad! you’re just as bad as dennis!

how dare you! I’m a hundred times worse!

prove it, then!

I bet you’re just like any other girl who likes flowers and puppies and make-up!

have you ever met me?

come with me, william. I’ll show you what girls like me like. my name’s walter.

whatevers.

five minutes later… okay, you need to keep your left hand up to protect your face, then you jab with your right.

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I know exactly what to do.

ru-u-u-u-u-un!!!

maybe william was right. maybe I should be more lady-like, like an old-fashioned lady…

like my hero, boudicca, the warrior queen!

no, I need them to raise an army.

she must have minximatosis! she infects everyone who goes near her! still, if it helps me stop that pesky rollercoaster, I suppose I should be happy about it.

wuff!

are you finished with my dog and my shopping trolley? they can take our sweets and our scooters, but they’ll never take our comics! who’s with me?!!

to the ends of the earth, my queen!

minnie should be careful! she’s helping the softies now!

I was on my way home from the office just two minutes ago, but all that feels like a distant memory now!

this is great!

If it spreads as far as the town hall, the mayor will see the craziness and shut the rollercoaster down!

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what happened? you’re the worst mob ever!

where did our queen go?

my wig!

I know I had it before I joined minnie’s barmy army…

how odd! any guesses what just happened, readers?

Why is it difficult to open a piano?

Because all the keys are inside!

Tick it when you’ve told it!

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Rewind A Bit, To Earlier This Morning…

If You Can Call Twice The Speed Of Sound Quick!

What’s This?

A New Ride That’s Actually Quick?

Six Miles Away, One Second Later…

I’d Better Get Over There!

Nice Hat, Mayor!

Maybe This Ride Should Be Banned.

I Need To Keep Beanotown Quiet Until He Decides!

Minnie Doesn’t Know She Needs To Behave – I’d Better Find Her… Fast!

No Time To Explain! You Need To Come With Me, Minnie!

Hey! What Are You Doing?

Looks Like I’m Just In Time!

Sorry, Minnie.

Everyone Needs To Behave Or The Mayor Is Going To Ban The New Rollercoaster!

Are You Okay?

NO…

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The Mayor’s Close To Banning That Ride!

What?

Aargh!

Who Swapped My Hat For A Pirate Hat?

I Need To Think About This Some More.

A Quick Whizz-Speed Trip Later…

This Note Says There’s A Meeting At The Town Hall About It!

My Shoes Are On Fire!

Ha-Ha! Looks Like Whizz-Speed Was Too Much For Minnie’s Feet!

The unluckiest boy in the world!

Meanwhile, back in beanotown…

Phew! I’m glad they got this pan off my head, alexander!

I thought it was stuck for good this time!

No-o-o!

I need to go-o-o!

Disaster strikes as minnie’s flaming hot shoe leaves the atmosphere and takes out the international space station... and its toilet!

How did you get it on there in the first place?

I don’t remember, but I’ve had my awful accident for the day, and I’d have to be really unlucky to have another…

It’s alright, james – I saved you!

Are you okay?

Wow! I nearly had another pan on my head – a toilet pan!

Just look out for flaming toilets falling from the sky in future.

No, but it had a sink!

Are you okay?

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TOP 10 JOKES!

Maybe I could get an app for that…

From now on I’m going to stand this far away from you, james. because of your bad luck, not the bad smell.

...No, wait!

Yes…

What kind of cans are there in Mexico?

Mexicans!

Tick it when you’ve told it!

It’s okay, alex.

Space can’t have another flaming toilet to throw at me!

How did this pan get back on my head?

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Uh-oh! Here comes trouble!

Really? No Pranks?

Dennis Is Guarding The Town Hall, Hoping To Keep Beanotown’s Chaos And Fart Noises Well Away From The Mayor…

Halt!

This Is A No-Prank Zone!

Dennis, I’m Your Gran! I Won’t Cause Any Trouble!

No Pranks.

No Crashes?

No Explosions?

No Crashes.

No Explosions.

No Loud Fart Noises?

Er, I’ll Go Home.

FIVE MINUTES LATER…

What Was That? It Sounded Like A…

Phew! That Was Close!

I Need To Send A Message To All The Menace Squad To Tell Them To Lay Off The Pranks For Just One Day.

It Was An Elephant!

Er, The Elephant Delivery Service Just Drove By And One Tooted To Say Hello!

It Wasn’t Me!

Aargh!

Massive Fart!

Oh! Well, That Was Nice.

Good, Because It Sounded A Bit Like A Colossal, Enormous Bottom Burp!

What Was That?

Who Is Making These Awesome Pump Sounds?

A-Ha! There He Goes!

Don’t Be Silly, Mayor!

No-One In Beanotown Would Ever Do That!

It Was… The Foghorn On The Lighthouse! Er, Very Foggy At The Seaside Today!

Tee-Hee-Hee!

Yes! I’ll Make An Awesome Rocket That Makes Its Own Epic Fart Noise!

I Bet It’s Walter!

It Has To Be Him! He’s Always Trying To Wreck Everyone’s Fun! There’s Only One Way To Stop Him – Fight Fart With Fart!

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TOP 10 JOKES!

What? How Will That Help?

Do undertakers enjoy their job?

Of corpse they do!

That’s Just Making Things Worse, Dennis!

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It’s the class every teacher dreads...

It’s Half-Term But All The Teachers Are In School Because They Know It’s The Last Place Any Kids Will Be!

What’s The Matter?

You’re Our Health And Safety Officer.

Everything Is Up To Code, Isn’t It?

Well, You Can Show Him Around Then!

Nobody Panic!

Meanwhile…

Aarghh!

I Just Got A Message From Dennis – We’ve To Lay Off The Pranks All Day! Grr!

The Mayor’s Coming In To Inspect The School!

What? He’s Not In Charge Of The Menace Squad!

No-One Is!

Chill Out! All We Have To Do Is Find Somewhere Well Away From The Town Hall.

Well, Most Of The Fire Alarm Things Are Just Light Switches Painted Red.

Good! Because That Dennis Isn’t The Boss Of Me! No-One Is! We Know, Spotty.

Good. Now Tell Me What To Do And Where To Do It, Danny!

The School?

At Half-Term?

I Think I’m Going To Be Sick!

Don’t Worry, We Won’t Learn Anything!

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This Is The Founder Of Bash Street School, Vincent Van Plug.

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That’s Hideous, But The Regulations Don’t Say Anything About Extreme Ugliness!

Come On! More Polish!

How Do You Turn This Thing Up To Full Power?

He’s Coming!

Here’s The Main Corrid00000argh!

Tut-Tut! That Floor Is Clearly Over-Polished!

Lucky I Used To Be A Champion Figure Skater!

Warghh!

Hmm… Looks Like The Mayor Is Inspecting The School!

The Old Book Balanced On The Door Trick…

Oof!

Crumbs! Maybe We Shouldn’t Have Set All Those Other Traps For Teacher! …And This Is The Library.

Great Food Switcheroo, Toots!

In The Kitchen… this tin of eyeballs is out of date!

also, they’re eyeballs!

It Isn’t Usually Flooded!

Behind You!

Shh! They’re Headed For The Sports Hall!

Aarghh!

Shark!

You Know What? I’m Going To Give You A Pass!

If The Mayor Finds Out It Was The Kids Who Set Those Traps, The Rollercoaster Will Be Toast!

Maybe That’s A Little Overboard! – The Ed.

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The School Is Actually Slightly Safer Than Last Year!

What do ghosts eat for breakfast?

Dreaded wheat!

Tick it when you’ve told it!

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Uh-oh! Here comes trouble!

The phantom farter is still on the loose and the mayor hasn’t decided yet. I have to make sure he doesn’t hear any fart noises!

no!

The phantom farter is here already!

Lower me down slowly, gnasher!

one parp and we can kiss the rollercoaster goodbye!

Will do!

Hmmm, I can’t decide…

Fish fingers or pizza for tea?

Ooh! Spelt with a “ph”?

That’s a posh one!

Hang on!

Walter’s here too… …That means he can’t be the phantom farter!

I sense a disturbance in the pants!

Well, at least it’s nice and quiet!

The phantom’s gone!

Pull me up, gnasher!

This farter business has gone far enough!

I need help – from someone… tricky!

As if a thousand butts cried out!

Who? Someone tricky?

The dodger?

The minx?

Er, don’t tell me…

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Beanotown’s TOP trickster!

Dennis Has Called Tricky Dicky For Help To Catch The Phantom Farter…

I Don’t Know!

Well, Where Is The Phantom Now?

Can You Repeat That In English, Please?

If I Couldn’t Get To The Mayor, I Would Get To Someone Who Would Tell Him About It!

Hmm… If It Was Me And I Couldn’t Acquire My Primary Target, I’d Switch To A Secondary Objective.

FARP!

So, Later…

Hee-Hee!

Oh No! The Phantom Is Targetting Sergeant Slipper! He’s Sure To Tell The Mayor About What’s About To Happen!

Nice Try, Phantom! But That’s Not Sergeant Slipper, It’s A Cardboard Cut-Out! gotcha!

Earlier…

Have You Got A Life-Sized Cardboard Cut-Out Of Sergeant Slipper?

Bah!

Where Would Dicky Get A Life-Sized Cardboard Cut-Out Of Sergeant Slipper?

Never Mind That, The Phantom Is Getting Away!

Time to unleash the paint bomb!

We Have Four!

But, just As Dicky Launches The paint Bomb, The Mayor Appears…

Ugh! What’s That?

That’s Odd – He Doesn’t Look That Bothered!

Mwah-Ha-Ha!

When I Find Out Who’s Responsible For This, They’ll Be Sorry!

he set me up!

I Need A Hero! I’m Holding Out For A Hero. He’s Gotta Be Strong, And He’s Gotta Be Fast…

Hmm… A Hero, Eh? Do We Have One Of Those In Beanotown?

Yikes! The Mayor Won’t Be Happy About That!

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Knickers!

It’s bananaman!

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Sniffle!

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Anywhere you like, general – I couldn’t leave you stranded there, could I? But bananaman never does anything right!

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Are you sure it’s not a lovely tropical island?

Anyway, I must be going…

You great twit! You just put a hole in the prison wall!

The fool hasn’t realised we robbed the bank, gloom! Where would you like him to take us?

A lovely tropical island, general!

So that jaggy stuff I thought was tropical seaweed is actually… barbed wire? Wow! Thanks for bringing the bad guys in, bananaman.

…Crime doesn’t stop for a toilet break!

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CHEWIE SUAREZ The zombie footballer!

Put your boot in, chewie!

I can do betterrr than thaaaat!

I can use whole leeeegggg!

Urrghh!

Durr!

DANGEROUS DAN Beanotown’s top super-spy!

I’ve forgotten my pen. Do you have one, dan?

Course I do, mum.

Hang on.

One of these pens uses…

…Stun gas.

Whoops!

GRANNY THEFT AUTO Grans behaving badly!

Cor! Loverly jam!

Pay attention to where you’re going, grans!

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I say!

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Oops!

Looks like a traffic jam!

Never mind the traffic! We’re in a jam! Here comes slipper!

Grrr!

You menaces!

C’mere!

He’s always got a trick up his sleeve! It’s...

What’s This?

A Message To The Menace Squad?

Running Around To Find Someone Sounds Like A Lot Of Work.

Menace Squad, Eh? Dodge Squad Sounds Better!

Blah Blah – Deciding – Blah – Doesn’t Like Fart Noises – Blah Blah… ...Blah – Phantom Farter – Blah!

So…

That Mayor Of Ours Has Gone For A Walk in The Park.

And The Farter Will Turn Up To Get The Mayor Simples!

Go On! Get Out Of it!

All I Need is The Town’s Biggest Mouth And The Town’s Biggest Tell-Tale!

Now Walter Will Tell Everyone Who Didn’t Hear Minnie!

Why Do I Need To Know The Mayo is in The Park?r

In The Park, Eh?

There’s A Reason I Said The Park. There’s A Reason For Everything I Do…

Look, Here He Comes Now!

There You Go. Eek!

...The Park Keeper!

Who’s Making Those Horrible Farting Noises in My Beautiful Park?!

Where There’s A Dodge, There’s A Way!

At Least it Washed The Paint Off…

JOE KING’S

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Er… You Were Supposed To Catch The Phantom, Roger! And Now You’ve Soaked The Mayor – He Won’t Like That!

Why did the lizard go on a diet?

It weighed too much for its scales!

Tick it when you’ve told it!

CUT OUT AND COLLECT!

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Mum keeps nagging us to tidy our rooms, but we HATE cleaning up! Please help us!

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What do you call a dog in your toilet?

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What game is smelliest to play?

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What do you call an Arctic cow?

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What country makes you shiver?

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What’s the best thing to put in a pie?

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What does a snowman eat for breakfast?

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What do you call two banana skins?

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Mr Mayor, The Prime Minister Is On The Phone.

He’d Like To Speak To You.

There’s A Lot Going On In The Mayor’s Head Today…

Inside The Mayor’s Head…

That’s It! No-One soaks Me And Gets Away With It!

Tee-Hee-Hee!

Tell Him I Can’t Speak To Him Now. I’m Very Busy.

you can’t do that!

Watch Me! Those Kids Need Taught A Lesson!

No More Rollercoaster!

Very Well.

If That’s How You Want It… Rollercoasters Are Awesome! I Need To Get Down To The Memory Store!

Wait A Minute! Where Did Radar Go? I’m Fighting All

By Myself Here!

In The Memory Store, Radar Is Destroying The Mayor’s Memories Of The Bad Things That Happened Earlier Today!

And Yes, Memories Are Stored In Jars. What Else Would You Keep Them In?

JOE KING’S

TOP 10 JOKES!

Radar!

What Memories Have You Destroyed?

Er… I Can‘T Remember!

Turns Out The Mayor’s Memories Are His Numskulls’ Memories Too!

What’s a mermaid?

A deep-she fish!

Aarghh! I’d Made Up My Mind About That Rollercoaster, But I Can’t Remember What I Decided To Do!

Crumbs! No-One Knows What The Mayor Will Do… Not Even The Mayor!

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The vomit comet rollercoaster… ...Will be…

He’s getting away!

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He won’t! I’ve attached a net to my fart rocket. It should sail over his head and drop the net on him!

He’s dragging this out a bit, isn’t he?

And two, I have now made my decision about the new rollercoaster!

Oh no! It’s the phantom farter, launching one last fart noise to get the rollercoaster banned!

It’s not the x factor results show, mate!

Crumbs!

I hit the mayor!

Oof!

Ow!

Oh yeah!

I forgot the net, didn’t I?

Oops!

Now to find out who the phantom farter really is!

It’s walter!

It can’t be walter – I saw him and the phantom at the town hall, remember?

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It doesn’t matter anyway! That last fart noise has made sure that the mayor will ban the rollercoaster! forever!

Ha-ha-ha!

he said he needed a cut-out of himself so he could trick dennis into thinking he’s not the phantom farter.

I sold another cut-out earlier to that walter boy.

No, thanks to dennis’s dad!

Why is What’s he saying? everyone so quiet?

so it was a cut-out you saw!

When you say you spotted a clue, it was more like a dude just told you something!

Not exactly sherlock, are you?

This is great material for my next book! Do you want a signed copy, dennis?

No, I’m the star of the book – I should sign it for you!

Am i in it?

Gosh! Is walter right? Is the vomit comet history?

Er… okay then.

“Whatev’s, dennis!”

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Who cares?

Let’s keep the rollercoaster!

Thank you so much!

And soon…

That’ll be five pounds, please!

I may have failed to get the rollercoaster banned, but I can still get rid of these pesky menaces! Dennis isn’t the only person who can make a rocket out of a bottle! Ha-ha!

Come on, let’s rock this rollercoaster!

This is gonna be so awesome!

Here we go, people! Hold onto your lunches!

Waaaarghhh!

Gasp! We went so Fast we’ve taken off!

We’re heading into outer space!

GULP!

HA-HA-HA! NOW THAT THOSE MENACES are out of the way, I can shut this ride down and turn beanotown soft!

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People like sweets!

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