Its iconic characters such as Dennis the Menace, Roger the Dodger, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Calamity James, Ball Boy, Ivy the Terrible and Billy Whizz have become known to generations of British children.

The top five longest running Beano comic strips are, in descending order, Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, Bash Street Kids, Roger the Dodger, then the last holder of the title before Dennis, Lord Snooty.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

These longer strips include The Bash Street Kids Adventures written and drawn by Kev F Sutherland which since 2004 have featured parodies of famous comic strip images, including Amazing Fantasy's first Spider-Man cover, Action Comics ' first Superman cover, and most recently the cover of X Men # 100.

Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.

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* Cuthbert Cringeworthy, in the comic strip The Bash Street Kids

The Bash Street Kids is an ongoing comic strip featuring in the British comic The Beano.

It became The Bash Street Kids in 1956 and since then, it has become a regular in the comic, featuring in every issue.

Like many long-running UK comic strips, The Bash Street Kids is anachronistically frozen in the era in which it began.

It portrays Class 2B of Bash Street School, Beanotown, where the teacher and headmaster still wear mortar boards and gowns and pupils sit at wooden desks with inkwells.

Leo Baxendale remarks: " In fact, the catalyst for my creation of Bash Street was a Giles cartoon of January 1953: kids pouring out of school, heads flying off and sundry mayhems.

Straight away, I pencilled a drawing of ' The Kids of Bash Street School ' and posted it from my home in Preston to R. D. Low, the managing editor of D. C. Thomson's children's publications in Dundee.

It was only after I'd created Little Plum ( April 1953 ) and Minnie the Minx ( September 1953 ) that the Beano editor George Moonie travelled to Preston on 20 October 1953 and asked me to go ahead with Bash Street ( he gave it the provisional title of ' When The Bell Goes '; when it appeared in The Beano in February 1954, it was titled ' When The Bell Rings ').

" As time wore on, Bash Street School's wide range of pupils slowly shrank to the trademark ten it is now famous for.

In 1994 ( The Kids ' 40th anniversary ), it was revealed that The Bash Street Kids would go through a major revamp in order to appeal to a more politically correct and modern audience.

However, all proved to be a public hoax when the story introducing the new and improved Bash Street Kids saw them evidently return to their old ways.

By 2000, The Bash Street Kids had reached such a heightened popularity they were all featured in feature length strips taking up a whole Beano comic.

He is a major character within The Bash Street Kids, often devising their pranks and excape routes out of school.

Although he hates school, like the other children he did find it hard to cope when Bash Street School was closed down.

However, his big headeness is often brought down by a fellow Bash Street member after a prompted thump.

During the controversial makeover where The Bash Street Kids moved schools to attend Bash Street Academy, Danny was hypnotized into proper behavioural standards.

Plug is a lankish, gangling character in The Bash Street Kids, whose trademark is his horrifying face, which consists of a large overbite, two buck teeth and wide nose.

Despite his outward appearance, Plug is generally the more sympathetic of The Bash Street Kids, often ready to stick up for those who he feels have been unjustly treated.

His father, on the other hand, was shown in earlier strips to be quite handsome much to the confusion of the other Bash Street Kids.

Sidney has been shown to have a more trickster nature than that compared to The Bash Street Kids, his main targets seemingly Smiffy.

It first appeared in a Singled Out story in 2008 and also in a Bash Street Kids story in 2010.

This is considered strange since most of The Bash Street Kids have a dislike for Dennis, however, upon other strips noting she is friends with Minnie the Minx it is unsurprising.

He was quickly disposed of in a makeshift prison tower, which prompty became home of other Beano characters as well as The Bash Street Kids.

Wilfred is the quietist of The Bash Street Kids whose thoughts are hidden behind the depth of the green jumper that goes all the way up to his nose.

The Bash Street Kids Annual was originally published bi-annually ( as The Bash Street Kids Book in those days ) but is now out every August and summer specials also used to be printed annually during the 1990s.

Although it was originally entered as part of the New Bash Street Kid competition, the following issue, number 3440, establishes that this character is indeed Marmaduke's grandson, showing a distinctive and recognisable " Grandad " in the family portrait gallery.

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The Great American Bash was originally known as The Great American Bash until 2009 ; this was the original name when produced under the professional wrestling promotions World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) and Jim Crockett Promotions.

In 1952 he began freelance work for the children's comic The Beano, drawing series like Little Plum, Minnie the Minx ( started in 1953, taken over by Jim Petrie in 1961 ), The Three Bears and The Bash Street Kids ( initially called When the Bell Rings ).

When the Hash officially ends, many members may continue socialising at an " On-After ", " On-Down ", " On-On-On ", " Apres ", or " Hash Bash ", an event held at a nearby house, pub, or restaurant.

When Ric Flair left for the WWF in 1991, taking the NWA World Heavyweight Title belt with him, Dusty's PWF Heavyweight Championship belt was used as a replacement at The Great American Bash for the title match between Lex Luger and Barry Windham until a replacement could be made.

When Nixon went into semi retirement at the beginning of 1999 ( relinquishing Beryl the Peril at the same time ) several different artists took up the pen, including David Sutherland ( who also draws The Bash Street Kids from The Beano, and used to draw Dennis the Menace ) at first, Steve Bright ,, Lesley Reavey, Dave Windett later on ( who introduced a mouse called Squeak and his friends to the cast ), and, by 2003, Henry Davies, who was creating hybrid strips from Charles Grigg's classic Korky strips and new elements drawn by Davies.

This strip was titled as The Bash Street Dogs and was drawn by Nigel Parkinson, as Gordon Bell is now retired.

He is best known for his roles as Zack Morris in NBC's Saved by the Bell, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years, Detective John Clark in NYPD Blue, Jerry Kellerman in TNT's Raising the Bar, and more recently Peter Bash in TNT's Franklin & Bash.

Simpson performed the song on her DreamChaser Tour ( 2001 ), the 2001 Jingle Bell Bash and a few televised shows.

The song was performed along with " Irresistible ", " I Wanna Love You Forever ", and " I Think I'm in Love with You ", at the Jingle Bell Bash, organized by KBKS-FM, in December 2001.

In December 2001, Simpson joined the cast of KBKS-FM's Jingle Bell Bash in Seattle.