Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace was a character in The Beano. He appeared on the cover of the magazine's 1981 Summer Special in Dolphinarium, and appeared on the back with Gnasher, among other characters. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)

Joe Sterling once wore a Dennis jumper. (PROSE: Almost Perfect)

Behind the scenes
Dennis the Menace is the titular character of a long-running comic strip in the UK magazine The Beano.

Dennis appeared on the cover of the Beano's 2013 reprinting of their 1981 Summer Special (the very magazine that appeared in The Rings of Akhaten) where he is depicted catapulting a yellow Eternal Dalek over a fence towards an unsuspecting Sergeant Slipper using a plank and wooden crate (Dennis declaring "I'm the biggest menace in the Universe!", while his dog Gnasher sniggers "Gnexterminate!"). Dennis also introduced the issue.

On screen, Dennis was voiced by Susan Sheridan in, Richard Pearce in the 1996 TV series, and by Sophie Aldred and Chris Johnson in the first and second series, respectively, of the.