Ping the Elastic Man was a fictional character who had his own comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. His first appearance was in issue 1, dated 30 July 1938. Ping was an elastic man who could stretch everywhere, the only one in the world. 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.