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In his first appearance, Billy Bunter was introduced thus: The newcomer was a somewhat stout junior, with a broad, pleasant face and an enormous pair of spectacles. Bunter's big round spectacles and rolling gait earned him the nickname the "Owl of the Remove".
Tozer, Police Constable Horatio - overweight local policeman based in Friardale village Appears in 132 stories and first introduced in Magnet No. 130 Billy Bunter, Limited! (August 6, 1910). Wells, Mr. – Butler at Wharton Lodge. Appears in 46 stories and first introduced in Magnet No. 1140 Billy Bunter's Christmas! (December 21, 1929).
It also marks the first appearance of Henri Ducard, who was later used in the rebooted Batman Begins, albeit as an alias for the more notable Ra's al Ghul. [19] In the months before Batman ' s release in June 1989, a popular culture phenomenon known as "Batmania" began. Over $750 million worth of merchandise was sold. [31]
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It was the first of a 15-part movie serial featuring the characters as they faced Dr. Daka (J. Carrol Naish), a villain created specifically for the movie. 1943's Batman is not available on streaming.
The character Billy Bunter featured in stories about the fictional Greyfriars School which appeared for over 30 years (in fact, continuously from 1908 to 1940) in the boys' comic The Magnet, written mainly by author Charles Hamilton (although, as Hamilton was not always the author, the stories were published under the collective pen-name of Frank Richards).
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 ...
His father Cyril Theron Campion (1894–1961) – a playwright and screenwriter – and Blanche Louise Tunstall née Bear (1890–1933) – a first cousin of Charlie Chaplin – married in 1920 in London. [2] Campion was born in Bloomsbury, London, an only child. [3]