She keeps her small house clean and tidy, always fresh-smelling, the perfect oasis of comfort and joy when her husband arrives from the office to spend quality time with his son and take her off the hook. In 1990, Abbeville Press published Hank Ketcham's fully illustrated autobiography: The Merchant of Dennis ( ISBN 9780896599437, hardcover). In 1972, as part of a bonus magazine series, Fawcett published a "Short Stuff Special" where Dennis visited Children's Fairyland in Oakland, California. North also appeared as Dennis on an episode of The Donna Reed Show [99] and in the theatrical film Pepe (both 1960).

Dennis' world is inhabited by an assortment of personalities to whom we can all relate: From the grumpy, but lovable, neighbor to the prim and proper girl next door; from the harried, but loving mother to the impressionable and adoring little buddy.brings enjoyment to children of the area all year round and has served as a model for Dennis the Menace parks across the country.

Again, Henry and Alice overhear Dennis tell Gina that she "smelled better than a plateful of peanut butter sandwiches. Another running gag involves Dennis's ever-changing parade of new babysitters; [38] no one will take the job twice, much to Alice's annoyance. He's often found puttering in his rose garden, fussing over his stamp collection, or lounging in an attic full of boxes of photo albums, an old hunting canoe, ancient golf clubs, a Victrola, and his prized accumulation of classic jazz records. Alice Mitchell, née Aberdeen is Dennis' stay-at-home mother, who is usually the reassuring figure to whom Dennis can run when things get too overwhelming, ready to greet him with a warm hug.To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the panel, Abbeville Press published The Merchant of Dennis (1990), Ketcham's autobiography, and a companion piece, Dennis the Menace: His First Forty Years (1991), a collection of more than 800 panels plus a section of color Sunday pages. He lived in Switzerland for 18 years, where he worked on his feature from a penthouse studio overlooking Lake Geneva.

She is attracted to Dennis and is stubbornly confident in the belief that she will marry him in adulthood, [59] but he clearly has no interest in her.The hit network live action television series starring Jay North ran from 1959 to 1963 and still appears on stations around the country. He is always eagerly following him around, accompanying him while Dennis is running, or riding his bike or skateboard. Many years earlier, he hand-picked two artists, Marcus Hamilton and Ronald Ferdinand (who produce the daily panel and Sunday page, respectively), as his assistants as he became increasingly involved in a fine arts career.

Ruff is Dennis's ungainly but amiable canine of uncertain ancestry whose characteristics include large paws, stringy ears and lots of long hair. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy.This character eventually disappeared from the strip, although he does make appearances in the Dennis the Menace Pocket Full of Fun books. is Dennis's cranky, cantankerous, middle-aged next-door neighbor, a retired mail carrier and (at least as far as Dennis is concerned) his best adult friend.