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.

He returns in the Bash Street Kids Annual 2008.

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The Pup Parade also made a return in the Bash Street Kids Annual 2008.

The Bash Street Kids Annual was a book published from 1979 to 2010 to tie-in with the children's comic The Beano, specifically The Bash Street Kids comic strip.

This name continued, the year changing for each different annual until the release of the 2002 book in 2001 when it was called ' The Bash Street Kids Book ', and then changed again with the release of the 2003 annual in 2002 when it first adapted its next name, The Bash Street Kids Annual, though the year and ' from The Beano still appeared at the end.

Mike Pearse was also the main artist in the Bash Street Kids Annual 2010, with once again having no artwork from David Sutherland.

From then on the words " from The Beano " were printed elsewhere on the cover, the same thing The Bash Street Kids Annual had been doing for a few years earlier.

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Annual traditions include the snowball fight ( which pits North Court against South Court ), GLO ( a blacklight party ), and the Bishop Bash, which was founded in the spring of 2002 by Ben Reiter and Charles Finch-under the guidance of the Master's Office.

Past events hosted include: Post Emmy's Party 2009 & 2010, Art of Elysium's Annual Charity Gala, Warner Music Group's post Grammy Bash, Alfred E. Mann Foundation Gala, and many other notable events.