Hank Ketchams Complete Dennis the Menance 1959-1962 Box Set

Dennis vaults into the 1960s with his anarchic spirit still intact. Forthose unfamiliar with the newspaper strip, this book is a series of unrelatedone-panel gags (with the exception of one week-long story involving Dennis'smild-mannered grandpa), but what gags! Hank Ketcham is legendary for being oneof the most exquisitely skilled cartoonists of all time, and each and everyblack-and-white panel is a small masterpiece of design and draftsmanship. Dennis the Menace 1959-1962 and Dennis the Menace 1961-1962 bringsback into print Dennis's long-suffering parents, the Wilsons, his dog Ruff, hisbest pal Joey, his nemesis Margaret, and a seemingly endless parade ofbabysitters, as well as hapless shopowners, policemen, teachers, and familyfriends, all of whom come to realize that it's Dennis's world... they just livein it! Ketcham drew Dennis the Menace from 1951 to 1994, when he retiredand let his assistant take over the strip. The fifth and sixth volumes ofHank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace publish every single panelstrip from 1959 and 1962 in one handsome brick of a hardcover. This book restsas easily on a grandfather's shelf as a granddaughter's, but they especiallyrecapture the rambunctious youth of the baby-boomer generation.