Billy's Competition

The Magnet Library #14

by Frank Richards

Billy Bunter tries to organise a fishing competition. Marjorie Hazeldene pays a visit.

20 pages, Paperback

First published May 16, 1908

About the author

Pseudonym of author Charles Hamilton, who created Billy Bunter and who also used plenty of other pseudonyms.

Those other pseudonyms were, in alphabetical order:
Winston Cardew; Martin Clifford; Harry Clifton; Clifford Clive; Sir Alan Cobham; Owen Conquest; Gordon Conway; Freeman Fox; Hamilton Greening; Cecil Herbert; Prosper Howard; Robert Jennings; Gillingham Jones; T Harcourt Llewelyn; Clifford Owen; Ralph Redway; Hilda Richards; Raleigh Robbins; Robert Rogers; Eric Stanhope; Robert Stanley; Nigel Wallace; Talbot Wynyard.

Reviews

[Philip · Rating 2 out of 5]

An issue that is juggling a few different storylines, meaning that none of them feels central or particularly interesting for that matter. Billy's fishing storyline is a bit dull, the return of the 'aliens' to a new school on the Greyfriars grounds does not interest me as I thought those characters were boring stereotypes the first time round! Seeing Marjorie again was a little more interesting yet her role was shoehorned in to the final quater of the issue. I think Richards is still finding his footing on how to use female characters- I wonder when Cliff House school is introduced as this will surely be a better way of including them. 2 stars.