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William George Bunter is a fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards. He features in stories set at Greyfriars School , a fictional English public school in Kent, originally published in the boys' weekly story paper The Magnet from 1908 to 1940.
Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School is a school story by Charles Hamilton writing as Frank Richards, using the characters and settings of the Greyfriars School stories published from 1908 to 1940 in The Magnet. The book's retail price was 7s 6d. The novel was an immediate success, with sales of 25,000 copies within a few weeks.
By 1946 Richards had received permission to write Greyfriars stories again, and obtained a contract from publishers Charles Skilton for a hardback series, the first volume of which, Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School, was published in September 1947. The series continued for the rest of his life, the publisher later changing to Cassells.
Bunter, Mrs Amelia - mother to Billy, Bessie and Sammy Bunter. Billy Bunter is very fond of her. Appears in 7 stories and first introduced in Magnet No. 1076 Bunter Comes To Stay! (September 29, 1928). Bunter, Mr William Samuel - father to Billy, Bessie and Sammy Bunter. An unsuccessful stockbroker who frequently complains about income tax demands.
Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School was broadcast as a BBC television series from 19 February 1951 to 22 July 1961. A comic strip was published in Knockout (drawn by Frank Minnitt ) from 1939 to 1958, and then drawn by various other artists until Knockout merged with Valiant , in which comic strips continued to appear from 23 February 1963 to 16 ...
Intensely curious, Bunter listens in and discovers that this is a meeting of the Secret Seven society. After a few minutes, Bunter is discovered by the juniors, who vigorously kick him out of the woodshed. Bunter flees back to the school, where he encounters Vernon-Smith, still determined to exact vengeance for the fat Owl's misdemeanours.
Frank Richards Magnet, Schoolboys' Own Library, Billy Bunter's Own, Skilton, Cassell 1908-1961 1,500 St Jim's School Martin Clifford
Billy Bunter's Christmas Party is a school story by Charles Hamilton writing as Frank Richards, using the characters and settings of the Greyfriars School stories published from 1908 to 1940 in The Magnet. The book's retail price was 7s 6d.