On he capers, knock-kneed, curly-shoed, spindly-legged in awful black tights, like something out of the Beano!
It will be replaced in the next few months with a new website and will be known simply as Beano.com.
In the UK, two new comics have emerged to join long established titles such as 2000AD, The Beano and Commando.
It ran for 22 years before becoming the Beano Club, which currently has about 10, 000 members, aged from seven to 70.
The Beano Club stopped accepting new members in August, though the comic's Dundee publishers DC Thomson said it would honour existing subscriptions.
If councillors give the go-ahead, Bash Street would become a reality in time to mark the 75th anniversary of The Beano comic in 2013.
The figurines of the characters - made famous by The Beano and Dandy comics - were taken along with a number of Royal Doulton pieces.
Many residents from Barking and Dagenham will have taken the train along the Thames Estuary towards Southend on a work excursion - the old beano to the seaside.
The Beano had Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx but sometimes they crossed over into each others stories in a shared world of peashooters and mud pies.
It's badly behaved Beano school pupils The Bash Street Kids.
Sutherland, who also draws the Bash Street Kids for the Beano, is not personally fond of the Dandy redesign, particularly because it has fewer comic strip pages in it.
But almost 60 years after the kids first created mayhem in the Beano, Dundee-based publisher DC Thomson has asked the city's council to create a Bash Street next year.
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