| Bash Street Kids celebrate 50 years |
They have politically incorrect names such as Spotty, Fatty and Plug and wear shorts, caps, jumpers and lace-up shoes rather than jeans and trainers.
But as they celebrate their 50th birthday this month, the bash Street Kids are as loved today as they have always been.
Danny, Toots, Smiffy and the rest of the gang now have mobile phones and play computer games rather than with catapults and marbles.
But they still get most of their fun from plaguing their mortarboard wearing Teacher who, unlike in days gone by, is no longer allowed to cane them.
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"The Bash Street Kids haven't changed much in looks since they first appeared in The Beano on February 13, 1954," said editor Euan Kerr.
The idea for the Bash Street Kids was born as the first Beano editor, George Moonie, was looking out of his window on to the high school in Dundee, the city where the comic is produced by Scottish publishing dynasty DC Thomson.
After watching the Mayhem in the playground Moonie commisioned young artist, Leo Baxendale to draw a short comic-strip which was originally called When The Bell Rings and consisted of 3 introductory pictures and one large frame of a chaotic scence.
After 2 years the strip became the Bash Street Kids and by 1962 only Dennis the Menace was more popular.
Source: Daily Mail, Feb 7, 2004.
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