  minnie the minx is a fictional character in the british comic the beano. created and originally drawn by leo baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 december 1953, making her the third longest running beano character, behind only dennis the menace and roger the dodger. she is considered to be from the golden age of british comics. like desperate dan from the dandy, she has a statue in dundee. ==character history== ===leo baxendale strips (1953â1962)=== minne the minx, created and drawn by leo baxendale, first appeared in the beano in december 1953. her first strip introduced her as 'wild as wild can be' and showed her exasperated mother attempting to get her to be more creative rather than fight. taking the book, minnie then proceeds to beat her class mates during a revenge scheme using the 'scrap book' as a weapon. the closing panel shows her thanking her mother for the scrap book stating she has 'won nine scraps with it.' most of minnie's earlier strips consisted of six panel boxes; however, as her popularity grew, it quickly became more plausible to give minnie her own full page with added colour. this introduced her trademark flaming red hair and red and black jersey.minnie the minx. the beano. like many other beano stars at the time, many of her later strips showed minnie to get her comeuppance towards the end be it a cane, slipper or simply a case of karma. minnie also appeared alongside dennis the menace in his own strip in the 23 january 1954 edition of the beano. in the strip, she swapped toys with dennis for the day as she received his trusty catapult and he proceeded to 'menace' with her doll's pram. in the end, she got out of trouble scot free whilst dennis had to suffer for all her minxing. it was possibly this that began their future eternal rivalry. ===jim petrie strips (1962â2001)=== thumb|left|upright|statue in dundee in 1962, when baxendale left d.c. thomson, a new artist was taken on to continue minnie's adventures. young art teacher jim petrie was given the opportunity. his first strip, coincidentally, started similarly to baxendale's in that minnie is seen being asked by her mother to read rather than minx. much to her mother's dismay, minnie's chosen book influences her to take up red indian traditions in which she gets up to much mischief. in the end, however, after aggravating a sleeping b
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