Totally Gross Germs
Totally Gross Germs | |
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Comic strip character(s) from David Sutherland | |
Current/last artist | Vic Neill |
First appearance | Issue 2374 (16 January 1988) |
Last appearance | 2012 |
Also appeared in | The Beano Annual |
Current status | Discontinued |
Main Character | |
Name | Will |
Alias(es) | Ill Will |
Characters | |
Regular characters | Ugly Jack Bacteria, Jeremy Germ, Iris the Virus, Aunty Biotic |
The Germs is a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. It first appeared in issue 2374, dated 16 January 1988, replacing the Rasher strip, where the characters had been introduced the previous week.[1]
The strip was about a boy called Will who had three germs inside him (Ugly Jack Bacteria, Jeremy Germ, and Iris the Virus), and they were constantly making Will ill, requiring many visits to the doctor. Iris' name later changed to Violet Virus.
The Germs were sometimes stopped in their tracks with a grown-up looking germ called Auntie Biotic (a pun on "antibiotic").
The strip was originally drawn by
It returned to the comic in October 2011 as reprints of the David Sutherland strips, and later Vic Neill reprints in April 2012, along with Number 13, this time retitled as Totally Gross Germs. The following month, they were retitled again, as "The Germs: Totally Gross".
In Issue 3618 they returned to their original title.
References
- ^ The Beano issue 3623 dated 18 February 2012, page 13