# I find today's Dennis the Menace highly disturbing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606 "2004-08-19T20:38:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606/21 "2004-08-20T01:17:18Z")
Oh man, that’s friggin’ hysterical. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606/22 "2004-08-20T01:41:31Z")
:eek: Well, that was a nicely confusing experience. I thought perhaps you meant the Dennis the Menace that I knew of. [http://www.paulmorris.co.uk/beano/strips/dennisthemenace.htm](http://www.paulmorris.co.uk/beano/strips/dennisthemenace.htm) \*\* It’s probably not an overstatement to say that Dennis the Menace revolutionised the Beano, and, by extension, British comics in general. From the moment the strip arrived in 1951 the Beano entered a new era. Replacing Allan Morely’s rather more formulaic “Sammy’s Super Rubber” was, in the words of Bash Street creator Leo Baxendale, “a remarkable new character in an urban setting”. Within three years the comic had been invaded by a raft of other young characters that the readers could actually identify with - Minnie, Roger, The Bash Street Kids - and it all started here… … \*\* Oh, and I given the reputation of D.C. THompson company, I got a giggle out of the idea of a comic strip named “Sammy’s Super Rubber”. Hmmm, who ripped off whom, I wonder. If both DtMs are approx. 50 years old, it’s quite a coincidence. \ It might ber very funny to watch D.C. Thompson being sued for some kind of copyright infringement \ **Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606/23 "2004-08-20T01:47:05Z") HAH! See what Celen learned today! [http://www.toonopedia.com/dennisb.htm](http://www.toonopedia.com/dennisb.htm) > [@](#): > > In one of the oddest coincidences in the history of English-language comics (far surpassing the introduction of two groups of outcast superheroes with wheelchair-bound leaders (Doom Patrol and X-Men) during a three-month period in 1963), two characters named Dennis the Menace started simultaneously on opposite sides of the Atlantic. The American Dennis began syndication on March 12, 1951. The other first appeared in The Beano #452 (March 17, 1951), a very long-running humorous comic book published each week in Great Britain by D.C. Thomson. Because each Beano issue, dated Saturday, went on sale the previous Monday, the two actually debuted on the very same day! > … wow ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606/24 "2004-08-20T16:16:47Z")
Damn, now I can’t find yesterday’s comic. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606/25 "2004-08-20T17:15:52Z")
I too am seeing today DtM. (Has anyone clipped out DtM for the fridge recently? On purpose?) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606/26 "2004-08-20T17:19:58Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > (Has anyone clipped out DtM for the fridge recently? On purpose?) You mean besides that one? 😃 The comic’s syndicate runs their comics two weeks after newspaper publication, so if you look [here](http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/dennis/about.htm) in about 13 days, it should be there. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606/27 "2004-08-20T19:41:44Z")
Or, if you’re impatient, you can look [here](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/dennis.asp?date=20040819) now. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606/28 "2004-08-21T00:31:51Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/comics/Dennis\_The\_Menace.dtl](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/comics/Dennis_The_Menace.dtl) > > Seriously, what’s up with this? I clicked that link and it shows a different strip: Dennis’ mom says, “Do you have a clue why I’m punishing you, Dennis?” And Dennis looks up hopefully and says, “You mean you forgot already?” Neither **Ferret Herder’s** nor **Uvula Donor’s** link shows the strip with Mr. Wilson on the scale and Dennis looking up his towel. Maybe Ketcham or his syndicate realized this strip was drawing the wrong kind of attention and pulled it. I guess I’ll just have to use my imagination . . . :eek: . . . OK, I’m done now. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606/29 "2004-08-21T01:18:50Z")
I have a friend who uploaded it into Yahoo Briefcase. Hopefully [this](http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/4123f557_1019d/bc/My+Documents/Dennis_The_Menace.gif?bf.bqJBBCUZ1bhHm) link will work… ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606/30 "2004-08-21T01:44:15Z")
Thanks, **SuperNova** , your link works (and I just saved the .GIF so I can laugh at the little pervert forever.) When I posted the link to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the link was working. When I checked the link just now, the link itself still works - it will bring you to the correct page - but the picture is missing. My guess is that the syndicate pulled the comic (hehheh…“pulled”) because the days bracketing that one are still working fine. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606/31 "2004-08-21T10:58:56Z")
When I first saw the Thread Title I thought for sure it was going to be the one where Dennis complains to his mother about the lunch she packed for him: “Hamsters, again?” P.S. Right now it seems **Uvula** ’s link is working again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-find-todays-dennis-the-menace-highly-disturbing/260606.md?page=1)