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Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis The Menace HC Vol. 3 (1955-1956)
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Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis The Menace HC Vol. 3 (1955-1956) Dennis the Menace was one of the most brilliantly observed and empathetic comic strips about childhood, as Ketchum captured the mischievousness, rambunctiousness, and anarchy of a kid's world better than any other cartoonist. While parents shake their head ruefully at how accurately Ketcham caught children's zest for mayhem, children identify with Dennis and the chaos that he leaves in his wake. 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.
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