Ball Boy

Favorite Childhood Comics Characters (37 items)
list by kathy

Ball Boy is a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano and also the name of the main character. It first appeared in issue 1735, dated 18 October 1975.

It features a five-a-side football team (who usually lose all their matches, often 37-0 in some cases) that includes:

Ball Boy - the captain of the team, Ball Boy bears resemblances to The Dandy's Owen Goal. He plays striker for the team. He has a minor part in The Beano Interactive DVD, playing football with a globe in a geography lesson.

Titch - A small boy who (ironically considering his height) usually plays in defence. Little is known of Titch, although he is given his own short strip in The Beano Annual 2002.

Dimmy - A defender, who is quite dim, hence his name. He looks a lot like Plug.

Benjy - He is a good player on the team, Benjy seems to be vice-captain and Ball Boy's best friend.

Goalie - the goalkeeper. This character is an anomaly in the sense that in some strips he is a superb goalkeeper and in others he is comically awful, letting in everything. There are a few strips where he just sits in the corner of the goal, reading, because the rest of the team can't get a shot on target.

Chandra Singh - just joined the team at the end of 2008.

Ball Boy's team kit was originally a red and black vertical striped shirt and black shorts, but it later changed to blue and black stripes.