In the process of
posting images of landmark episodes of When the Bell Rings and The Bash Street
Kids by Leo Baxendale elsewhere on the web recently, and leafing thought the respective
issues of DC Thomson’s comics in my collection, I realized how extraordinarily
productive the young Leo was in the mid-50s. At that that point his weekly output
amounted to a full page of When The Bell Rings, a half-page of Minnie the
Minx, a half-page of Little Plum for THE BEANO, and one full page of The Banana
Bunch for THE BEEZER on top of that!
Here are images of all
the strips by Leo Baxendale from The Beano and The Beezer, both cover cover-dated
February 11th 1956. Assuming that he drew all the pages in just one week,
the man is unbeatable!
