The Bash Street Kids

The Bash Street Kids
Characters from The Beano
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Publication information
Stars ofThe Bash Street Kids [began as When the Bell Rings]
Appear in
Author(s)Uncredited
Illustrator(s)
First appearance
  • Issue 604
  • (13 February 1954)
Current statusWeekly
Group timelineIssues 604 – present
Characters
Type of groupSchool friends in Bash Street School's Class 2B
Members of group
EnemiesCuthbert Cringeworthy, Head, Teacher
Other charactersTeddy, Ella, Jimmy, Gasbag, Janitor, Olive, Winston
Also appeared in
The Beano
DC Thomson works

The Bash Street Kids is a comic strip in the British comic magazine The Beano. It also appeared briefly in The Wizard as series of prose stories in 1955. The strip, created by Leo Baxendale as When the Bell Rings!, first appeared in issue 604.[1] It became The Bash Street Kids in 1956 and has become a regular feature, appearing in every issue. From 1962, until his death in 2023, David Sutherland drew over 3000 strips in his time as illustrator.

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