sentences:  Prose stories were the first to go being phased out in 1955.Adventure strips were phased out in 1975 with the last adventure strip being General Jumbo however 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 over sixty years.