Real Name: Billy Whizz.
Identity/Class: Human mutant
Occupation: School kid
Affiliations: None known
Enemies: None known
Known Relatives: Unnamed mother and father; Alfie (brother), Grandpa Whizz, Jethro (uncle), Joe (cousin), William Whizz (ancestor), various other ancestors
Aliases: None known
Base of Operations: Beanotown
First Appearance: Beano #1139 (D.C.Thomson, 16th May 1964)
Powers/Abilities: Constantly moving at superhuman speed ("Whizzspeed"). Billy tends to forget how destructive his supersonic passage can be, and has a very short attention span - much like the considerably later DC character Impulse.
History:
Billy Whizz is a young lad who does everything at superhuman speeds.
Though his brother appears to be normal, Billy's father, grandfather and
various ancestors have also demonstrated superhuman speed, so it appears
to be a familial trait, albeit one that skips the odd generation.
Comments: According to Val, who wrote into me, Billy is based on her husband, whose uncle, Malcolm Judge, created the character.
Billy's
ancestor, William Whizz, delivered bread for a baker in 1666 London. Because
William was wearing out a pair of shoes every time he raced around town,
the baker had a blacksmith attach horseshoes to William's footwear to make
it more durable. Unfortunately, this also caused him to kick up a stream
of sparks as he ran, causing what became the Great Fire of London.
Billy has a little brother called Alfie, who occasionally features
in his own spin-off strip. Unlike his sibling, he appears to have no powers.
While the original strip he comes from is done for laughs, the character
turned up (as Jimmy Quick) in a more serious role in Grant Morrison's