Allen Ross-migration

Hey, whadaya know? There are some newly-reprinted Wiseman Dennis stories in The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics that just came out.

It reprints two stories from Dennis the Menace #24: "We Want a Clubhouse!" and "Double Talk". It's only 13 pages total, but we'll take it; especially from a 50-year old comic!

The rest of the book is full of goodness too, with all kinds of good childrens' comics, mostly from the 40s and 50s. Includes Little Lulu, Donald Duck, Fox and Crow, Three Mouseketeers, Pogo, Scribbly, Little Archie, Sugar & Spike, Captain Marvel, and more! By creators such as Walt Kelly, Sheldon Mayer, Basil Wolverton, Harvey Kurtzman, Carl Barks, Jack Cole, Jules Feiffer, John Stanley, and Dr. Seuss.

See the Crisis on Infinite Comics board for some discussion and the contents and where they are from.

Fantagraphics is still keeping the Complete Dennis the Menace line going, now announcing the sixth volume. Amazon says it is due on December 31st, but we will see.

I didn't know that they changed the In Washington book either. Thanks for sharing that!

The Safety comic and the Pumpkin Festival edition are profiled earlier in this thread. I don't have time at the moment, but use Google's advanced search, and restrict the search to the domain "boards.collectors-society.com", and they will probably be found quickly. Also look for the newest comic, the Goes to Camp edition recently re-published by the camp that Dennis attended.

On another subject, Fantagraphics has been publishing the Complete Dennis the Menace strips recently, and just put out a PDF of the entire month of January 1959 to publicize the latest edition. Here's a link to the page containing the download. And here is one strip from it. I love Henry's face and Alice's face:

Congratulations, Ian.

Out of curiosity, have you seen this one?

It was given out at a Baltimore Orioles baseball game and also at the Geppi Entertainment Museum in 2007. More details here (I indexed it for the GCD): http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=515138

Allen

That's an interesting item. My copy of #11 has the seal.

This would make more sense if it was the first issue with the seal and they added it partway through the print run, but the seal started with issue 9's cover.

I've added this factoid to the GCD for this issue (now that I'm an editor there).

Amazon lists Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1959-1960 (Vol. 5) as coming out on Dec. 1, 2008. Here's the listing: http://www.amazon.com/Ketchams-Complete-Dennis-Menace-1959-1960/dp/1560979666/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214325342&sr=1-1

And the cover:

They also now have vol. 4 for $8.39, and Where's Dennis for $11.65.

Check out this topic for MANY, MANY house ads:

http://marvelmasterworksfansite.yuku.com/topic/1528

I happened across this page recently, and thought I'd share it: Humorous Quotes attributed to Dennis The Menace

A few of my favorites:

"Don't ever hold a grudge, ... Just belt them and forget about it."

"How come I always get blamed for everything I do ?"

"I'm shinin' all my Dad's left shoes for nothin' ! Then I'll charge him a dime each to do the right ones."

I was leafing through Previews this weekend, when I was surprised to find a new book listed in the Fantagraphics section: Where's Dennis?: The Magazine Cartoon Art of Hank Ketcham on page 299. 200 pages $19.95, due August 15, 2007.

I hadn't seen any publicity on this book. And it still isn't listed on Fantagraphics web site. But I did find more details at Amazon:

Although best known as one of the greatest syndicated cartoonists of the 20th Century, Dennis the Menace creator Henry "Hank" Ketcham also spent nearly a decade as a gag cartoonist for major New York magazines like Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post.

 

In these gag cartoons, which were primarily published between 1942 and 1950, one can already see the endearing troublemaker that would become the protagonist in his long-running strip. (In fact, in his Dennis the Menace cartoons, Ketcham reused some of the gags and images almost verbatim.) Influenced by Virgil Partch and other artists he met during his early days at Disney animation and as an artist banging on doors in New York, Ketcham's trademark visual humor and unerring line work are also very evident in these pre-Dennis cartoons.

 

Collected for the first time are hundreds of Ketcham's long forgotten magazine cartoons.

I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, if you have delayed getting the Complete Dennis books, Amazon is currently having a great sale on them.

Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1951-1954 Box Set (new) is now $7.99 (no kidding).

Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1951-1952 (new) is now $4.99. So is Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1955-1956.

The bad news is, if Amazon is selling these so cheaply, are they not selling well? Plus it's been so long since the last volume was released.

However, on that front, more good news: Amazon does list Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1957-1958 (Vol. 4) as coming out on Dec 19, 2007. There is even a cover for it, so it doesn't appear to be a phantom book. Let's see if I can imbed it below:

(Boy, it's been slow here recently. And nothing new on the Al Wiseman blog this year. Any Dennis fans left?)

A long time ago in this thread, Morning Funnies cereal was mentioned.

I recently ran across my (empty) box of #3, the only one with had Dennis on the box top (I think all had an actual strip on the back), and scanned it.

Here is the front of the box, with the box top too (I flattened it out):

and here is the back, with the strip:

I think the strip was created especially for this.

There are online versions of two of the Dennis promotional comics at the Comics With Problems web site.

Here are both versions of Dennis the Menace Takes a Poke at Poison.

And here is Dennis the Menace Coping with Family Stress (which I hadn't read until now).

According to Diamond Comics latest shipping list, HANK KETCHAM'S COMPLETE DENNIS THE MENACE 1955-1956 HC will be out in comic shops tomorrow, November 22nd.

I still haven't scanned in my favorites from the last one!

Time to awaken this thread again.

I found a reference to this in The Beat. Dennis crosses over with The Fight Club . Definitely strange. I never saw the movie, so I probably don't get most of this.

Hey, Joe! Thanks for posting these.

If you have a digital camera, you might be able to get the second image of the pinback using that. It was very cool seeing it in person!

After I talked to you, I did manage to pick up three more Dennis comics (72, 78, and Giant 49) at the con, so I'm down to needing 3 DTM, 7 Giants, 1 Friends, and 4 Pocket Full Funs to complete my non-promo comics.

What other products did Dennis endorse? I know Dairy Queen was the biggie, and Sears Catalog, but what else?

Where have any Dennis the Menace Sunday strips been reprinted?

The only ones I know of are in these issues of Dennis the Menace Pocket Full of Fun:

#8: strips from 1958-1962

#11: from 1958, 1965, and 1966

#15: from 1966-1967

#21: from 1970-1971

#25: from 1971-1972

#35: from 1971-1972

#40: from 1966, 1967, 1969, and 1972

#46: from 1974

(all based on the Copyright years listed in the indicia).

Have any other Sunday strips been reprinted? (Not onesies, twosies).

Volume 3 of Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace, 1955-1956 has been announced by Fantagraphics, for November.

This third volume of Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace publishes every single panel strip from 1955 and 1956 in one handsome and thick hardcover volume. Ketcham’s legendary pen and ink work achieves its full flowering in this volume as do the various situations and themes that Ketcham would return to: the first “split screen” (two-panel strip) that Ketcham would occasionally use; Dennis actually flirts with a girl; he rats Dad out to Mom; exacerbates confrontations between Dad and the police; and stymies hapless baby-sitters. Oh, and Mr. Wilson finally comes front-and-center as Dennis’ #1 victim.

Also formally announced is the box-case version containing the first two volumes (for $39.95!).

See this link: The Pulse

A few pages ago, I mentioned that issue #14 of Hogan's Alley was going to feature an interview with Marcus Hamilton, the current author of the daily strip.

The issue came out this week, and I got my copy. The interview is insightful. I'll comment more on it in the future. But they have also posted as "web extras" many of the illustrations from the article at this location. The last part, "The Evolution of a Dennis Panel", is the most interesting (the interview makes it clear that, although Ketcham was a stickler for detail, a lot of the back-and-forth was done in a fun manner, not antagonisic).

By the way, has anyone noticed that Ron Ferdnand has been doing some of the dailies lately; one or two a week?

It looks like Fantagraphics is now offering a boxed set of the first two volumes of Complete Dennis just in time for Christmas giving. See this Amazon link .

This month's Previews lists the upcoming magazine Hogan's Alley #14, which cover-features Dennis. I just found the listing online; here's the cover:

and here's a link to its containing page.

Per the cover text, featuring an interview with Marcus Hamilton, and step-by-step Sunday Page by Ron Ferdinand.

Heads up! According to the latest shipping list from Diamond, this is due out on Wednesday:

JAN063034 HANK KETCHAMS COMPLETE DENNIS THE MENACE 1953-1954 HC $24.95

I won't be able to get mine until Saturday.

There is a preview of the next Complete Dennis the Menace at The Pulse, including some cartoons from it, available here.

I don't believe this musical was produced elsewhere. I think there were several attempts at a Dennis musical, probably documented in "The Merchant of Dennis", if I recall (I don't have mine handy).

The movie came along later (1993), so it had no influence.

I've been very busy recently, but I did want to contribute something probably pretty rare. Back in May 1990 there was a new musical created for Dennis the Menace, and staged at the Olney Theatre in Olney, Maryland, not far from where I lived at the time. I went and saw it, it was pretty good, but apparently not an overall success.

Here's the cover from the playbook:

Got to bump this up.

Here's a new daily comic from 1/31/2006 that reminded me of the old 1950s ones: