page_title: Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Dennis the Menace and Gnasher / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Dennis Priestley the darts player
context_page_description: Dennis and Gnasher is a long-running comic strip in the British children's comic The Beano, published by DC Thomson, of Dundee, Scotland. The comic stars a boy named Dennis the Menace and his Abyssinian wire-haired tripe hound Gnasher.
  The strip first appeared in issue 452, dated 17 March 1951, and is the longest-running strip in the comic. The idea and name of the character emerged when the comic's editor heard a British music hall song with the chorus "I'm Dennis the Menace from Venice". The creation of Dennis in the 1950s saw sales of The Beano soar. From issue 1678 onwards Dennis the Menace replaced Biffo the Bear on the front cover, and has been there ever since.
  Coincidentally, on 12 March 1951, another comic strip named Dennis the Menace debuted in the US. As a result of this, the US series has initially been retitled Dennis for UK audiences, while the British character's appearances are often titled Dennis and Gnasher outside the UK.
  Dennis is the archetypal badly behaved schoolboy. The main recurring storyline throughout the years features his campaign of terror against a gang of 'softies', particularly Walter.
context_section_description: Darts player Dennis Priestley is known as "The Menace" and wears a shirt with the familiar red and black horizontal bands. 
  On stage, grunge star Kurt Cobain occasionally wore a Dennis pullover (jumper/sweater) that Courtney Love bought from a Nirvana fan in Northern Ireland in 1992. In recent years, the satirical magazine Private Eye has carried comic strips featuring a character sometimes called Beano Boris or Boris the Menace, a blond-haired version of Dennis the Menace, parodying the politician Boris Johnson.
  In The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Dennis the Menace appears as a character in the fourth chapter, Conservation of Energy.
  Guitarist Mike Campbell wears a shirt depicting Dennis and Gnasher in the music video for Tom Petty's song "I Won't Back Down".
  In 2018, the Isle of Man produced a set of Christmas stamps featuring Dennis and Gnasher.
caption: Darts player Dennis "The Menace" Priestley wearing the character's red and black striped colours
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