Ping the Elastic Man

Ping the Elastic Man was a British gag-a-day comic strip series which originally appeared in the magazine The Beano in issue 1, dated 30 July 1938. It was drawn by Hugh McNeill. Ping was an elastic man who could stretch his body into absurd lengths. The series ran in the magazine until 1940.

After an absence of several decades, he met Minnie the Minx in issue 3185, a special 65th Anniversary issue of The Beano, dated 2 August 2003.