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William George Bunter (known as Billy Bunter) is a fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton using the Pen name Frank Richards. He features in stories set at Greyfriars School, originally published in the boys' weekly story paper The Magnet from 1908 to 1940. Subsequently, Bunter has appeared in novels, on television, in stage plays, and in comic strips.

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  • Billy Bunter
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  • William George Bunter (known as Billy Bunter) is a fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton using the Pen name Frank Richards. He features in stories set at Greyfriars School, originally published in the boys' weekly story paper The Magnet from 1908 to 1940. Subsequently, Bunter has appeared in novels, on television, in stage plays, and in comic strips.
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Relatives
  • Bessie Bunter ; Sammy Bunter ; Mr. Samuel Bunter ; Mrs Amelia Bunter
Portrayer
Last
  • Bunter's Last Fling
Age
  • 14(xsd:integer)
Nickname
  • Billy; "The Owl of the Remove"
Name
  • William George Bunter
Education
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  • left
Caption
  • Billy Bunter as depicted by Magnet artist Leonard Shields
First
  • The Magnet #1 "The Making of Harry Wharton"
Width
  • 24.0
Occupation
  • Schoolboy
Gender
  • Male
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  • Bunter was blinking now behind his big spectacles, and his spectacles were damp as he blinked. In Bunter's fat circumference, under his many layers of fat, there was a heart, and in Bunter's heart at the present moment there was a horrible quake. His mother was ill! Bunter, for once, was thinking of someone other than himself. He was thinking of his mother. The mater was ill, and she wanted him! The poor old mater! "Oh!" gasped Bunter. "Oh!"
Creator
  • Charles Hamilton writing as Frank Richards
Nationality
  • British
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  • William George Bunter (known as Billy Bunter) is a fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton using the Pen name Frank Richards. He features in stories set at Greyfriars School, originally published in the boys' weekly story paper The Magnet from 1908 to 1940. Subsequently, Bunter has appeared in novels, on television, in stage plays, and in comic strips. He is in the Lower Fourth form of Greyfriars School, known as the Remove, whose members are 14–15 years of age. Originally a minor character, his role was expanded over the years with his antics being heavily used in the stories to provide comic relief and to drive forward the plots. Bunter's defining characteristic is his greediness and dramatically overweight appearance. His character is, in many respects, a highly obnoxious Anti-hero. As well as his gluttony, he is also obtuse, lazy, racist, inquisitive, deceitful, slothful, self-important and conceited. These defects, however, are not recognized by Bunter. In his own mind, he is an exemplary character: handsome, talented and aristocratic; and dismisses most of those around him as "beasts". Even so, the negative sides of Bunter are offset by several genuine redeeming features; such as his tendency, from time to time, to display courage in aid of others; his ability to be generous, on the rare occasions when he has food or cash; and above all his very real love and concern for his mother. All these, combined with Bunter's cheery optimism, his comically transparent untruthfulness and inept attempts to conceal his antics from his schoolmasters and schoolfellows, combine to make a character that succeeds in being highly entertaining but which rarely attracts the reader's lasting sympathy.
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