Bart Simpson (Comic Book Series)

Bart Simpson Comics
First Published	2000
Last Published	February 24, 2016
Publisher	Bongo Comics
Number of Issues	100

Bart Simpson comics are a short stories comic book series centered on Simpsons star Bart Simpson first published in the United States in 2000 by Bongo Comics. The Australian version was published in 2002 by Otter Press, and the UK version was published by Titan Magazines. Comics were released to comic book stores first and to newsstands three weeks later.

The final issue, #100, was released in March 2016. It is a 48-page double-sized issue that features a story presented in six chapters. In "The Bongo Beat" page of that issue, Creative Director Nathan Kane stated "rest assured that the boy with nine spikes isn't going anywhere. New and exciting adventures await your favorite ten-year-old troublemaker."

Content

These comics all have between 3 and 7 different short comics and sometimes a bonus comic or three about Bongo Super Heroes. Bart Simpson Comics have been in publication for a much shorter time than regular Simpsons Comics and have different types of plots, covers, drawings, and titles than regular Simpsons Comics. It discontinued on February 24th, 2016 with the 100th issue, and wasn't published again since.

List of comics

Son of Homer

• Issue #1-Oct 2000
  • "Big Fat Trouble in Little Springfield"
  • "Grrrl-Whirl"
  • "Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind"

Nature Boy

• Issue #2-Nov 2000
  • "Bart's Day at the Zoo"
  • "Talent Hunt"
  • "Maximum Bart"
  • "Futility Belt"

Troublemaker

• Issue #3-Feb 2001
  • "The Space Family Simpson in Terror on Trioculon"
  • "Battle of the Boy-Bands"
  • "Sky-High Bart"

Juvenile Jokester

• Issue #4-May 2001
  • "...Who wants to win a Pocketful of Quarters?"
  • "Quantum Cola"
  • "Bully for You"

Menace to Society

• Issue #5-Aug 2001
  • "Wild, Wild Bart"
  • "Bart's Puzzle Page"
  • "Wild, Wild Bart Part II"
  • "The Case of the Hanging Shoes from the Secret Files of Lisa Simpson"
  • "Bart Simpson's Day Off"

High Flyer

• Issue #6
  • "The Supercat of Springfield!"
  • "Bart Simpson and Milhouse Van Houten in: The Invisible Nerd!"
  • "24 Hours in the Life of Ralph Wiggum!"

Boy of Mystery

• Issue #7
  • "See You Later, Alligator!"
  • "The Case of the Missing Moon Waffles From the Secret Files of Lisa Simpson"
  • "Bart Simpson and his Family Visit Stampy the Elephant in: All's Veldt That Ends Veldt!"

Little Rascal

• Issue # 8-Aug 2002
  • "The Dickens You Say"
  • "Li'l Kang and Kodos in Baby's First Abduction!"
  • "Professor Frink's Partly Probable Parables: Sashimi Bart!"
  • "Bart & Milhouse's Almost Excellent Adventure"

Rabble Rouser

• Issue #9-Nov 2002
  • "O Bart, Where Art Thou?"
  • "A Chair of One's Own"
  • "Bart's Nasty Shirt"
  • "Cooking with Kang and Kodos"
  • "Prize Possession"
  • "Cyrano de Bart"
  • "Hill of Beans"

Boy of 1,000 Faces

• Issue #10
  • "Bartology 101" (did not appear in the comic's first printing)
  • "Bart's Beard"
  • "Snow Brawl"
  • "Li'l Itchy & Scratchy in: Of Mice and Menace!"
  • "Lunch Pales"
  • "The Madness of Milhouse"

Holy Terror

• Issue #11
  • "From Lichtenslava with Love"
  • "Tango Tangle"
  • "Bartzilla"
  • "Balloon Payment"

American Idol

• Issue #12-Apr 2003
  • "An Anime Among Us!"
  • "Taming Your Wild Child"
  • "Bart's Anagrams" (did not appear in the comic's first printing)
  • "Scheme Supreme"
  • "Bart Fink and the Mighty Mississip"

Boy Without Fear

• Lucky Issue #13
  • "Bartzan and the Ancient Forbidden Golden City of Gold!"
  • "Bartzan and the Ancient Forbidden Golden City of Gold! Part 2"
  • "Little Buddy Day"
  • "Scaredy Cats"
  • "Bart's Big Spill"

The Yellow Kid

• Issue #14-Oct 2003
  • "Bart Simpson in The Time Bandit!"
  • "Bart Simpson in Bring Your Parents to Work Day"
  • "Bart Simpson in Computer Hackles"
  • "Bart Simpson in Bart Does Something Fishy!"
  • "Lisa Simpson in Reading Night"

Class Clown

• Issue #15-Dec 2003
  • "Another One of Professor Frink's Partly Probable Parables: Bart Version 2.0"
  • "Lisa Simpson in Diary of a Mad Sax Camper"
  • "Lisa Simpson in Bad Hair Day!"
  • "Maggie Simpson in Invasion of the Baby Snatchers"

• Issue #16-Feb 2004
  • "Picture Day"
  • "The Squish of Death"
  • "The Case of the Headless Dolls"
  • "Zone Wars"

• Issue #17
  • "Legends of the Bartman Family"
    • "Li'l Abe Simpson: The Able-Bodied Boy"
    • "The Special Kid... The Hinting Hippie"

• Issue #18
  • "Bart Simpson: Secret Agent Man Part 1"
  • "The Truth About Cats and Mice"
  • "Bart Simpson: Secret Agent Man Part 2"

• Issue #19
  • "Are You Gonna Eat That?"
  • "Art for Bart's Sake"
  • "Maggie's Mobilization"
  • "The Mediocre Misadventures of Martin and Milhouse! Bartless on a Tuesday"

• Issue #20
  • "The Great Springfield Donut War"
  • "Movie Mayhem"
  • "Bart's Fun Pages"

• Issue #21
  • "Batter-Up Bart"
  • "The Three Stages of Teaching"
  • "Cuff It Up!"

• Issue #22
  • "Final Detention"
  • "Bart Burger"
  • "Bait and Cackle"
  • "Birth of a Salesman"

• Issue #23
  • "Bart vs. The One Man School"
  • "Bart Simpson Explains: The Sick Day"
  • "Special Delivery"
  • "Kwik-E-Bart"
  • "Grampa Bart"
  • "Flu Shot"

• Issue #24
  • "Bart's Got Spirit!"
  • "Nelson Muntz's Guide to Grown-Up Nerds"
  • "The Kiss of Blecch!"
  • "The Maggie & Moe Mysteries: The Willful Will"

• Issue #25
  • "Comic Fan No More"
  • "Box Office Bingo"
  • "Cross Country Clown"

• Issue #26
  • "Bart Gets Stumped"
  • "Mayor Maggie"
  • "Stink & Stinkability"
    • "The Crimespree on Springfield 2!"
    • "Special Delivery"
    • "Kwik-E-Bart"
    • "Grampa Bart"
    • "Flu Shot"

• Issue #27
  • "Hot Air Buffoon"
  • "The Case of the Sax Solo Saboteur"
  • "No Purchase Necessary"

• Issue #28
  • "Lisa the Vampire Croaker"
  • "Milhouse...The Girl?"
  • "Prankster's Helper"
  • "Bart Goes to the Movies"
  • "Angry Dad in Trimming the Hedges"

• Issue #29
  • "Bart Cops Out"
  • "If You Can't Wiggum, Join 'Em!"
  • "Presenting Eastern Europe's Favorite Cartoon Cat and Mouse Team: Worker and Parasite!"
  • "K-Bart"

• Issue #30
  • "The Book That Ate Springfield"
  • "The Secret Life of Bart"
  • "The Great Train Wreck"

• Issue #31
  • "Spree For All"
  • "Handy Pop Culture Quotes For All Occasions!"
  • "Shopping for School Supplies the Bart Simpson Way!"
  • "The Maggie & Moe Mysteries: The Disappearing Duchess!"

• Issue #32
  • "Hog Tied"
  • "Clone Alone"
  • "Baby Got Back (at Burns)"

• Issue #33
  • "Fort Knocks"
  • "A Load of Trouble"
  • "The Uter Bomber"
  • "Signs of Intelligent Life"

• Issue #34
  • "Mr. Bart Krabappel!"
  • "Willie and the Weasels"
  • "Burger Meister"

• Issue #35
  • "The Return of Truckasaurus"
  • "Today's Science Prank with Professor Frink"
  • "Barty & Milhousy"
  • "Elementary School Dropout"

• Issue #36
  • "One Flew Over the Retirement Castle"
  • "Bart vs. Bart 1"
  • "Going Postal"
  • "One For All and Alpha One"

• Issue #37

THE TEN-INATOR

• Chapter One: Attend the Tale
• Chapter Two: The Tension Mounts
• Chapter Three: Intense Radiation
• Chapter Four: The Best Intentions
• Chapter Five: When Ten Titans Clash!!

• Issue #38
  • Principal Simpson!
  • Milhouse's Guide to Keeping It Cool
  • Ralph Learns a Lesson

• Issue #39
  • Bigger Than Big
  • Heatie Jeebies
  • Bart the Magnificent
  • Window of Opportunity
  • The Trial of Maggie Simpson

• Issue #40
  • Easy Writer
  • Li'l Krusty 1
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Maggie
  • Li'l Krusty 2

• Issue #41
  • No Such Thing As a Free Comic
  • Bart Hears a What?
  • Angry Dad (Fixes His Car)

• Issue #42
  • Battle of the 'Plexes!
  • Say Hello to My Little Friend...Scarface!
  • Ponce Upon a Time

• Issue #43
  • Lisa's Bad Word!
  • Cool Rules!
  • Saxophony!

• Issue #44
  • Maggie's Meltdown
  • Citizen Cane
  • Bart's Name Is Mud!

• Issue #45
  • Class Klown
  • Dog Gone Hollywood!
  • Bartspace.com
  • The Maggie and Moe Mysteries! Naptime for Murder!

• Issue #46
  • Aye, Robot!
  • Yellow Chef!
  • How Miss Hoover Got Her Groove Back

• Issue #47
  • "Split Decisions"
  • "Li'l Krusty 3"
  • "Li'l Krusty 4"
  • "The Dating Game"
  • "Li'l Krusty 5"

• Issue #48
  • "The Best Radioactive Man Event Ever! Part 2"

• Issue #49
  • "Children off the Cob"
  • "Li'l Krusty 6"
  • "12 Angry Kids"
  • "Li'l Krusty 7"
  • "Li'l Krusty 8"

• Issue #50
  • "The Simpson Project"
  • "Maggie's Crib 1"
  • "Big Top Flop"
  • "Maggie's Crib 2"

• Issue #51
  • "Bart's Invisible!"
  • "Change Is Good!"
  • "Maggie's Crib 3"
  • "Drive-In, Driven Out"
  • "Maggie's Crib 4"

• Issue #52
  • "The Sound and the Flurry"
  • "Maggie's Crib 5"
  • "Homer Simpson: Chick Magnet"
  • "Scared Tentless"

• Issue #53
  • "The Mystery of The Pesky Desk"
  • "Maggie's Crib 6"
  • "La Bart Vita"
  • "Maggie's Crib 7"

• Issue #54
  • "Bart on the Fourth of July"
  • "Maggie's Crib 8"
  • "Fortunate Son"
  • "The Death of Comic Book Guy! (Part One)"

• Issue #55

The Princess Principle

• • "Chapter 1: Let the Games Begin"
  • "Chapter 2: Pony Up"
  • "Chapter 3: Judgement Day"

• Issue #56
  • "Ri¢hie $imp$on"
  • "Maggie's Crib 9"
  • "Lisa Rocks The Party!"

• Issue #57
  • "A Tomb With A View"
  • "Maggie's Crib 10"
  • "Bart vs. Bart 3"
  • "The Day of the Mustache"
  • "The More, The Merrier!"

• Issue #58
  • "Pranks A Lot!"
  • "Maggie's Crib 11"
  • "Bart vs. Bart 4"
  • "Maggie's Crib 12"
  • "It's The Thoughtlessness That Counts"
  • "Rod & Todd Pray-Off"

• Issue #59
  • "Eat the Pie Slowly"
  • "Maggie's Crib 13"
  • "Bugged!"
  • "Sleepless in Springfield"

• Issue #60
  • "Bart vs. the Kwik-E-Mart"
  • "Big Bad Brother Bart"
  • "Zombie Moves!"

• Issue #61
  • "Mail-Order Mayhem!"
  • "Maggie's Crib 14"
  • "Planet of the Plants"

• Issue #62
  • "Bart's Got Wheels"
  • "Maggie's Crib 15"
  • "The Nukes of Hazard"

Trade Paperbacks

Issues of Bart Simpson Comics have been complied in the following trade paperbacks:

Big Book of Bart Simpson	collects issues #1-4	(ISBN 0-06-008469-3)	July 9, 2002
Big Bad Book of Bart Simpson	collects issues #5-8	(ISBN 0-06-055590-4)	June 17, 2003
Big Bratty Book of Bart Simpson	collects issues #9-12	(ISBN 0-06-072178-2)	July 6, 2004
Big Beefy Book of Bart Simpson	collects issues #13-16	(ISBN 0-06-074819-2)	May 31, 2005
Big Bouncy Book of Bart Simpson	collects issues #17-20	(ISBN 0-06-112455-9)	May 2, 2006
Big Beastly Book of Bart Simpson	collects issues #21-24	(ISBN 0-06-123128-2)	April 3, 2007
Big Brilliant Book of Bart Simpson	collects issues #25-28	(ISBN 0-06-145022-7)	July 3, 2008

See also

• Simpsons Comics
• Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror
• Best of the Simpsons