Who Watches the Watchers - Forum for the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe & Similar Works » Gotta catch 'em all #27

zuckyd1 · 2/22/2021 2:42 pm

O7 Janitor

zuckyd1 · 2/22/2021 2:44 pm

P4 Samson

zuckyd1 · 2/22/2021 2:48 pm

C8 Chiefy

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:14 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
K11 Gnasher

Correct. Dennis' dog, Gnasher.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:18 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
L9 Minnie the Minx

Correct. The female equivalent of Dennis (not his counterpart, she's a character in her own right), Minnie.

As with American comics, successful ideas often get copied, so both rival companies and other titles in the IPC/Fleetway stable had their own versions of Dennis and Minnie - in the latter's case, Beryl the Peril or Bad Penny spring to mind. The adult version of Bad Penny turned up in Wildstorm's Albion series, but her child version and Minnie would have been hard to tell apart in a police line-up. Seriously:

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:20 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
K8 Walter the Softy

Dennis' perennial victim.

The comics have actually confirmed that the current Dennis is the grandson of the original, when the current Dennis' father had a flashback to his youth that revealed he had been the Dennis of the 1980s. Presumably this means that something similar holds true for all his supporting cast.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:20 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
O8 Biffo the Bear

Yep. Dennis' predecessor as Beano's cover star. Though not the first cover star of the Beano...

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:22 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
K9 Roger the Dodger

Correct. Dodger in this case meaning he is forever coming up with schemes (dodges) to get out of work, be it homework, school work, housework, etc.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:25 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
P10 Billy Whizz

Fastest boy in the world. Though a humour strip, Billy Whizz was sufficiently superhero-like to be given a superhero counterpart in Grant Morrison's 2000AD series Zenith, in the form of Jimmy Quick:

That distinctive hairstyle Billy has runs in the family...

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:28 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
E10 Erbert

Yep. The last several are correct, and collectively are most (but not all) of the Bash Street Kids, plus of course their long-suffering teacher.

Don't believe you are finished with Bash Street btw.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:29 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
J11 Gnipper

Gnasher's son.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:32 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
M10 Calamity James

Who, as his name suggests, brings disaster wherever he goes. He's not the only character from his strip present in the picture.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:33 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
H9 Pie-Face

Yep. Curly and Pie-Face are members of Dennis' supporting cast, relatively recent additions (in that they were introduced in the 1990s).

You might want to look to Dennis' supporting cast for a few more individuals in the picture.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:38 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
C7 Lord Snooty

Correct - the super rich Lord Snooty, who despite his name was in no way snobbish. He eventually got phased out as the Beano editors felt the stereotype was outdated, and replaced by his less formal-looking grandson, Lord Snooty the Third.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:39 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
C9 Little Plum

Correct. Again, you might want to check his strip's supporting cast too.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:39 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
L7 Big Eggo

The original Beano cover star.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:43 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
K2 Bananaman

One of the few outright superhero characters in the Beano, and one of their most successful characters. He originally started in another title, Nutty, before transferring to the Beano's long running sister title The Dandy, and eventually to the Beano when Dandy came to an end. He's also starred in his own cartoon back in the 1980s, and even a smallish stage play (which I attended a few years ago during its short run).

Again, I'd advise checking out his supporting cast.

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Loki · 2/23/2021 1:45 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
J7 Zuky (no relation)

Yep, co-stars Meebo and Zuky, relative newcomers to the Beano, having debuted in 2010.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:46 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
N11 Alexander Lemming

Calamity James' equally unlucky pet.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:49 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
A7 Sergeant Slipper

I'm going to double check this one - you might be right that it is the police officer who tries to rein Dennis the Menace in, but as you can see there's more than one police officer in the image. The other definitely isn't Slipper, but I'll need to check how many cops turn up in Beano strips, because Slipper here looks a touch younger than the cop you're trying to identify.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:50 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
P9 Winston

Pet of the Bash Street School janitor.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:52 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
E1 Jack Flash

One of the characters from Beano's adventure strips. In the first few decades before Beano became almost exclusively humour strips, they featured a number of adventure stories, and Jack Flash, the flying boy from Mercury, was one of them. A counterpart of his also turned up in Grant Morrison's Zenith.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:53 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
O7 Janitor

Bash Street School's janitor, yes.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:53 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
C8 Chiefy

Little Plum's dad.

Loki · 2/23/2021 1:56 am

zuckyd1 wrote:
P4 Samson

One of the stars of the Shipwrecked Circus. Except, despite wearing a virtually identical "circus strongman" outfit, the guy in the group shot isn't him. Beano had a more prominent strongman character who starred in his own strip.

zuckyd1 · 2/23/2021 7:03 am

B8 Fatty

zuckyd1 · 2/23/2021 7:10 am

N2 Freddie Fear

zuckyd1 · 2/23/2021 7:12 am

L11 Chester

zuckyd1 · 2/23/2021 7:21 am

K7 Ill Will
K7 Jeremy Germ
J7 Ugly Jack Bacteria
J8 Iris the Virus

zuckyd1 · 2/23/2021 7:23 am

N4 Tim Traveller