Talk:Greyfriars School

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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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There were around 2000 school stories about Greyfriars; and from what I can make out, only a brief reference in one LONE story - yet someone seems to think that the entire detail of that story should be included in this article. If this approach was taken with the school stories, it would be the longest article in in Wikipedia.

--John Price (talk) 08:59, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Sixth Form: Reginald Coker

"Coker, Reginald (Minor) - Younger brother of Horace Coker of the Fifth form. Introduced in Magnet #241 - Coker Minor - Sixth Former (1912)." Can anyone explain how someone in the Sixth Form, made up of the oldest boys in the school, can be the youngest brother of a boy in the Fifth Form? Robocon1 (talk) 10:38, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

This is due to the almost incredible stupidity of Horace Coker, who only managed to move up from the Shell through his Aunt Judy's influence. As he is doomed never to meet the academic standards of the 6th form, he is doomed to remain in the 5th. His younger brother, on the other hand was very smart and a home tutor had educated him to sixth form level. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Struman (talk • contribs) 16:13, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Strange

A British comic, issues are dated using American style, with the month first, like May 21. The school is set close to the coast in Kent and in the first hundred issues, there is a good sized mountain nearby, but none in Kent. Also there is a school for "aliens" (mostly French and Germans) built next door to Greyfriars, which is quickly forgotten. The pupils all call each other by surnames and not first names, even hardly ever amongst friends. There is virtually no name calling and even the worst characters hesitate to tell a lie (Bunter being the exception and only because of his utter stupidity). Issue #169 ends with Bulstrode (the bully) as the most despised person in school after a vicious attack on weedy Alonzo Todd. Yet in the next issue which would have taken place very soon afterwards, possibly days, the Remove elects Bulstrode as form captain.

Magnet #173 and #174 (1911) had Bob Cherry expelled because it was believed that he had stolen a ten shilling (fifty pence) postal order (he was framed by Esau Heath, a really spiteful boy). Bunter could have saved Cherry, having proof against Heath but instead chose to blackmail Heath for money to spend on food. When it all came out, Bunter was not expelled, but was flogged. Yet in Magnet #177 which would have been a few weeks later, school time, Bunter first steals £2 (a large sum in those days) from Bulstrode's clothing then is caught by Wingate, stealing £4-£5 from John Bull's clothing. Bunter tells his stupid lies, admitting it and denying it and Wingate marches him off to the headmaster. Surely, even without his earlier blackmail, Bunter could be seen as a thoroughly bad character and expelled? Yet in the next issue, #178 (1911), Bunter is still at school as though nothing had happened. (84.236.152.71 (talk) 21:47, 31 May 2015 (UTC))

A horror story

Maybe the only horror story that Hamilton wrote and a good one, Magnet #239 (September 7, 1912) has "the Famous Four" trapped on a grounded passenger steamer ship with a hideous horror. The lifeboats and life jackets are all there but no one else is aboard. What happened to the passengers and crew was so bad that it had six tough men trying to gain salavage rights to the ship, run in terror from it. The thing is finally killed and the four boys get the salvage money from the ship, which even after giving some to their rescuers would have been thousands of pounds. In #240, it is revealed that the money would be invested for the four boy's futures. (80.31.144.16 (talk) 18:29, 6 October 2015 (UTC))