Wistful moments

By KathM

Happy 60th birthday.

I know it's St. Patrick's day, but i grew up with Dennis the Menace in my weekly copy of the Beano comic, which dropped through the letter box every week as a child, and i just heard he was 60 today!

Dennis and Gnasher (previously known as Dennis the Menace and Gnasher and Dennis the Menace) is a long-running comic strip in the British children's comic The Beano, published by D. C. Thomson & Co., Dundee, Scotland.

The strip first appeared in issue 452, dated 17 March 1951, and is the longest-running strip in the comic. Dennis is the archetypal badly-behaved schoolboy. The main recurring storyline throughout the years features his campaign of terror against a gang of 'softies' (effeminate, well-behaved boys), particularly Walter. Walter finds himself in unfavourable circumstances on many occasions, although he sometimes gets the "last laugh".

Regular characters Dennis, Gnasher, Rasher, Gnipper, Mum, Dad, Curly, Pie Face, Walter the Softy, Spotty Perkins, Bertie Blenkinsop, Sgt. Slipper, the Colonel, Bea, Granny, Foo Foo
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