From 1908 to 1940, the stories appeared in "The Magnet", in a total of 1,683 weekly issues. After 1940, the stories continued to appear in book form until Hamilton's death in 1961. "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 October 1976.