Who wrote the Billy Bunter stories?
Billy Bunter Billy Bunter William George "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
Billy Bunter Bunter is particularly close to his mother, Mrs Amelia Bunter, a kindly lady who appears only briefly in seven stories. Billy's cousin Walter Gilbert (Wally) Bunter was introduced in Magnet No. 333 "The Dark Horse" (1914) and appears in a further 32 "Magnet" stories. He is Billy's exact double, excepting only for his spectacles, but is his opposite in every other respect. Other members of the Bunter family to appear briefly over the years include Billy Bunter's uncles James, George and Claude, his aunts Prudence and Claribel, his great-aunt Eliza Judith and (in a one-off story) Sir Foulkes Bunter and