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  1. Welcome to the forums! It's always great to see new Dennis fans dropping in. It's also great to hear about kids - any kids - reading comics. Here's the picture you were trying to post: Wiseman's attention to detail is amazing and always meticulously rendered. At the top we can see the "Fred Toole Complicators" an in-joke about writer Fred Toole making Al's life so miserable by scripting such complicated scenes for him to draw. (I would imagine.) Thanks for sharing! By the way, if you haven't checked it out yet, be sure to see Bill Alger's great Al Wiseman blog at www.alwiseman.com Great stuff!!!
  2. Just off the top of my head, in this thread we've seen Dennis promoting US Savings Bonds Encyclopedia Britannica Cream of Wheat A&W Root Beer Del Monte Schaeffer Pen Unicef Red Cross Sears Carpet Care Rhuli Jelly Kellogg's Raisin Bran, Rice Krispies, and Corn Flakes Morning Funnies Cereal Dairy Queen (for thirty years) I'm sure there's more. Allen, post your list of comics you need here. What better place to find them than here! I'm sure someone has them.
  3. Finally, here's another A&W ad from a magazine. I believe that's four that we've uncovered so far. For anyone interested, Suzy and I visited the Geppi Museum here in Maryland this past Saturday. The museum is overwhelming and amazing, and I have never seen anything like it as far as its display of pop culture and comic items. Absolutely worth the visit! As far as Dennis items go, there were two that I found: 1) a box of Dennis napkins 2) a beautiful copy of Dennis #1 There may be more, and I plan to visit the museum a few more times to take it all in.
  4. Next up is a pinback I picked up from another collector. Again, a beautiful piece. It's a flicker button, and one of the cooler ones I've ever seen. I would have to say that A&W really had the nicest Dennis products of any of the many companies we've talked about here that used him as a promotional character. This is another one and only item. I've seen it only once period. Insanely rare! The first image is of Dennis drinking root beer, then the next is of him saying, "Good!" I couldn't get the second image to show up on the scanner.
  5. Seems crazy to be responding to your post over a month after you asked the question, but the only place I have ever seen the Sundays reprinted is in the Pocket Full of Fun digests. Even more, the ones that are reprinted in there are not the old Wiseman Sundays from the 1950s but seem to be mostly Owen Fitzgerald reprints from the 1960s. By the way, it was great meeting you at the con this past Sunday, Allen, and knowing how much you like those old A&W root beer items, I will post a few that I've been meaning to post for a while. First is this large 6-foot long banner. In my opinion, far and away the nicest piece of Dennis advertising I have seen to date. This closed at $430 on eBay, and NO collector I know has seen this before.
  6. I have a two or three foot stack. I've sold about $500 worth over the last month and am sick of scanning them. I can make a list if you want. Are you interested only in Wiseman issues? Tell you what, Bill, I will send you a pm.
  7. I second that. It would be great to see and hear about some of those. First, welcome to the boards, David. It's always great to have new collectors joining in. The official word from Hank Ketcham Enterprises is that Dennis is published in 19 languages. A shame is that in his own language he hasn't had his own comic book in over two decades. (Thanks a lot, Marvel. ) The different languages represented in Dennis comics I have are the following: 1) English (duh!) 2) Italian 3) Dutch 4) German 5) Swedish 6) Mexican/ Spanish And those European ones I got from good old Jim Wiseman earlier this year. We saw a Hebrrew (7) one a couple pages back, plus you said you had a Chinese (8) and Norweigan (9). My guesses for some of the other ones would be 10) Portuguese 11) Danish 12) Swiss 13) Russian 14) Japanese 15) Korean 16-19 would be anyone's guess. Possibly Finland and Belgium have them translated, or the Czech Republic, etc. Pure speculation on my part. As far as those giveaways go, we posted them all throughout the thread. I would rank the most difficult in this order: 1) Pumpkin Festival (one known copy) 2) Dr Posner's Scientific Shoes (I've seen one, period) 3) On Safety (one was on ebay about a week ago, not too hard) 4) Away We Go Calydryl with a band-aid still attached The rest are pretty easy. Personally I would be interested to see if anyone has tracked down each of the different printings of Poison and Dirt giveaways. Poison had two different versions but Dirt was the same one with a different date as far as I could tell. Maybe some research is in order. David, I will pm you about missing issues and hope I can help you out. I just sold a ton of doubles on eBay. ( Even Bill bid on my Dennis Giant #1.) There's still a lot left, though.
  8. I got a subscription to this magazine just to get the Dennis issue. The first issue arrived a couple weeks ago, the one on the Yellow Kid. Then I get another envelope on Thursday, and I go to open it, and it's another copy of the Yellow Kid! I emailed them and hopefully I'll get my issue soon. Thanks for posting that link. Marcus Hamilton's work before Dennis is very impressive. How many comic artists can claim a cover to The Saturday Evening Post? I've always thought he was an excellent artist and look forward to the interviews. As for him not doing the panels lately, I just hope that he's all right. I can't imagine what would happen to the strip if the two artists stopped doing them.
  9. The next one has credits for Fred Toole as writer and Hank Ketcham for art:
  10. There were six of these early kids books. The first was in 1956, and while it says HK was the artist on this first one, one look at the cover tells us it's AW:
  11. And here is the second page. I can scan more if anyone is interested. It's interesting to look closely at the art since it helps to see exactly what AW's Dennis looks like, as opposed to HK's and Lee Holley's.
  12. Here is the inside cover and first page of a book I have right here. Notice AW is actually credited.
  13. I know it's been mentioned before that Al Wiseman was rarely credited, and that one time he was credited was in Dennis Giant #6 - In Hawaii. Another time he was credited was in this Little Golden Book:
  14. Great work on that, Jon! It's a great accomplishment. If you want good covers, go to the first pages of this thread where I posted high grade scans of the first 25 issues, mostly Bethlehem copies. If these don't work, let me know and I will email you good scans. With all the talk about Al Wiseman, our friend and fellow poster Bill Wray auctioned off another Wiseman page recently that sold for $500. It's the same story that I own a page of and that JRW now has a page of. Too bad we broke up the story, but we can always pick up a Dennis the Menace #16 to read it in its entirety. Here's the link to the auction: Al Wiseman Art Auction Here's the page:
  15. Bill, I've been checking in on the Al Wiseman blog every couple days and love the stuff you're posting. Please keep it up! There's some interesting Dennis activity going on on eBay. First, an auction for every Dennis book - first time on eBay all 48 books have been for sale all at once as a set: 48 Different Dennis books - eBay Auction Next, some AMAZING prices paid for low-grade copies of early Dennis issues. These rarely or never appear for sale, but they just did, and check out these prices: #1 in Fair Plus Condition - $300 Dennis #1 Link #2 in Very Good Minus - $300 Dennis #2 Link #4 in Very Good - $290 Dennis #4 Link #6 in Very Good - $247.50 Dennis #6 Link #10 in Very Good - $102.50 Dennis #10 Link