The Bash Street Kids Annual
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The Bash Street Kids Annual is the current name of the book that has been published yearly since 1979 to tie in with the children's comic The Beano, specifically The Bash Street Kids comic strip. As of 2004 there have been 21 over the years, with another (The Bash Street Kids Annual 2006) to follow in 2005. Since they are traditionally published in the autumn and in time for Christmas, they have the date of the following year on the cover. The annuals mainly feature reprints from around 10 years ago of The Bash Street Kids strips in The Beano, although there is some new material.
Originally a new annual was published every two years. However, after the 1986 annual was published in 1985, it was decided to make the annual a yearly publication instead. The next annual was published in 1988 and the others every year onwards since then.
The original title was simply 'The Bash Street Kids' with the year following and the words 'from The Beano' printed elsewhere on the cover. This name continued, the year changing for each different annual until the release of the 2002 book in 2001 when it was called 'The Bash Street Kids Book', and then changed again with the release of the 2003 annual in 2002 when it first adapted its current name, though the following year and 'from The Beano' still appear at the end.