Publisher's Synopsis
Dennis vaults into the 1960s with his anarchic spirit still intact. For
those unfamiliar with the newspaper strip, this book is a series of unrelated
one-panel gags (with the exception of one week-long story involving Dennis's
mild-mannered grandpa), but what gags! Hank Ketcham is legendary for being one
of the most exquisitely skilled cartoonists of all time, and each and every
black-and-white panel is a small masterpiece of design and draftsmanship.
Dennis the Menace 1959-1962 and Dennis the Menace 1961-1962 brings
back into print Dennis's long-suffering parents, the Wilsons, his dog Ruff, his
best pal Joey, his nemesis Margaret, and a seemingly endless parade of
babysitters, as well as hapless shopowners, policemen, teachers, and family
friends, all of whom come to realize that it's Dennis's world... they just live
in it! Ketcham drew Dennis the Menace from 1951 to 1994, when he retired
and let his assistant take over the strip. The fifth and sixth volumes of
Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace publish every single panel
strip from 1959 and 1962 in one handsome brick of a hardcover. This book rests
as easily on a grandfather's shelf as a granddaughter's, but they especially
recapture the rambunctious youth of the baby-boomer generation.
