Talk:Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

message: The article claims it was knitted by his granny, however the Beano 70 years book says he "just started wearing it in one issue". Then showed a comic strip from 2001 (but drawn in the 1950's style) showing that dennis actually stole the jumper off somebody else, by "sending him on a trip to the moon" (actually a nearby pond) with a rocket powered by staken-up fizzy drink bottles.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Felneymike (talk • contribs) 17:52, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dennis's Jumper

message: The tone of the article really annoys me. It is not at all impartial, is championing Dennis like mad and showing the softie or whoever they are in a bad light just because he wants to. This is not a persuasive letter. Nobody cares about your opinion. Change it.90.200.193.147 (talk) 21:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tone

message: He's called Dennis's Dad not dennis's father, same with Dennis's Mum. Borb 19:37, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry about that. It was probably a hangover from the days when all the characters each had their own article (sometimes multiple articles), and that's the title someone put Dennis' Dad in. I've now corrected it, though, next time, feel free to make the change yourself! BillyH 20:57, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Dennis's Father?

message: Where does Pie-Face's name being Kevin come from?--GingerM 17:55, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, I can't remember now. I know it was originally in the 'Pie-Face and Curly' article, most of which was nonsense. I'm sure I had a reason for including it in here, though...maybe it was revealed in one of the episodes of the TV series? BillyH 19:29, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: Does the comic regularly use the spelling Dennis's Dad (with an s) or Dennis' Dad (without)?  I had regularised apostrophe use in the article, but now the article uses both sorts again.  The web site www.beano.co.uk appears to use them interchangeably; I don't have access to the magazine. Michael Slone (talk) 04:40, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Apostrophe

message: Does Dennis have a surname? He may not, but I'm pretty sure I've read that his enemy Walter has the name Simpkins.
Can anyone verify this?
Anon, Dennis's surname is Menace! Digifiend 08:38, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Surnames

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:DennisUK.png

message: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/dennis-the-menace-(uk)/ seems to have copied extracts from this article. It's not a wiki, so it's probably a breach of Wikipedia's copyright. Seems to apply to a lot of other Wikipedia articles as well. Digifiend (talk) 12:26, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spiritus Temporis website 

message: Somebody (not logged in) changed Terry Wigon to Terry Wogan. I don't think this was a spelling mistake, The Beano often uses parodied names. I'll have to check the annual in question, but I think Wigon was correct. Digifiend (talk) 10:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone redid the link, but got the visible name and link the wrong way round. I've fixed it. Digifiend (talk) 13:40, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terry Wigon/Terry Wogan 

message: In earlier stories, Walter is referred to as "a weed", rather than "a softy". Any ideas when the "softy" tag started appearing? (83.20.166.163 (talk) 10:58, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Weedy Walter

message: "Now the real-life inspiration for Dennis the Menace, one of Britain’s favourite cartoon characters, has been revealed for the first time. He is Robert Fair, a former navy officer from Dundee now running a garage in New Zealand. Fair’s father was friendly with Davey Law, the cartoonist who created the character for The Beano comic, and he was a frequent visitor to the Law home as a child.", The Times, 4 Oct 2009. --Mais oui! (talk) 22:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The real Dennis the Menace 

message: I propose we merge the Dennis the Menace (Beano Character) article with this one because they largely deal with the same subject matter. On a similiar note something could be done with the Gnasher articles Gnasher and Gnipper, and Gnasher's Bit(e) redirect to the Gnasher article but Gnasher's Tale doesn't. I think it would be wise to have just one article about all three Gnasher related comic strips. That should probably be discussed on the Gnasher article but the views on this merger may be relevant to that as well. Eopsid (talk) 18:57, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no need to debate merging Dennis the Menace (Beano Character) - it's a duplicate article. I'll make it a redirect, and any useful material can be transferred her from the history. Incidentally, I've also moved this page back to "Dennis the Menace (UK)", because "Dennis the Menace" was it's original title and the name it's best known by. Besides, the strip in the Beano is now just called "Dennis and Gnasher", so "Dennis the Menace and Gnasher" is out of date. --Nicknack009 (talk) 06:54, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

text: Here's the history of the character article. The information's all still there to be merged into this article. --Nicknack009 (talk) 21:23, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger Proposal

message: Seeing as the character is a national treasure in Britain, similar to America's Mickey Mouse, I feel the character is deserving of it's own article citing personality traits, physical appearance and, more importantly, appearances outside of the strip. I attempted to make this but, I must admit , it turned more into a history of the strip rather than the character itself. American cartoon characters such as Garfeild, Charlie Brown and the US Dennis the Menace all rightfully have their own individual pages. Why doesn't Dennis? Bottomlivefan95 (talk) 18:41, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If you ask me, this should be/is meant to be Dennis' page, but many want it to be about the comic strip, even though Dennis has appeared in other strips outside of his own. It's why I put the titles of Dennis' other comic strips in the infobox because he's not a one-strip character. —MonkeyStolen234 (talk) 00:47, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

text: I would suggest adding a section for the character to this page and then once that's good enough split it off to its own article. That way there wont be any duplication. Eopsid (talk) 17:58, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  An independant page for the character 

message: When noting that there was a comic with a nigh-identical release title (that is to say, the titles were identical at release), the article refers to the correspondence as coincidental, but I doubt that it is truly coincidental, even as close as they are in release date. Is it possible that the one released in America happened to be read by the author of the other, and then incorporated into the design of the British one published in the next available issue (which would explain why there are a few days, but not over a week between release dates)?--Macks2008 (talk) 23:07, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: They were both published on the same day. 2A00:23C8:8F9F:4801:6973:39B7:25E9:8D3A (talk) 20:04, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Coincidentally"? I doubt that 

message: After attending a talk by Nigel Parkinson at the 2015 Glasgow Comic Con, he noted that they'd done a story in recent years revealing that the current Dennis is the grandson of the original (including some red-tone homages to the 1950s strips), to explain the design changes of Dennis' Dad and so on (he also said that they had "three Dennises", implying that the current Dennis' Dad was also a Menace at one point). Does anyone know which issues this ran in, since this isn't currently reflected in the article? - BrainiacBlink (talk) 16:55, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The page states that " It was later revealed in 2015 that Dennis' father was the original Dennis the Menace from the 1980s in issue 3932" However, issue 3932 was published in 2018 and does not feature this reveal. Could someone please correct the issue number? I'd really like to know the issue it happened in! 140.228.55.70 (talk) 17:12, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dennis the Grandson 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: On the discussion concerning the merger of The Beano's Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Show with this article the claim that the series was shown on CITV was challanged by myself and at least one other contributor. Given there is not a source cited for this, I would suggest that this claim is removed. Dunarc (talk) 20:40, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Beano's Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Show 

message: Dandy #1377 (April 13, 1968), Smasher gets a pet dog for his birthday that is quite ferocious and as big a menace as he is. The dog did not stay though.(185.181.236.222 (talk) 10:45, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: The Smasher

message: The "Main Character" box lists "Hermione Makepeace (niece)".  Is there any evidence for this or can it be deleted?  If it turns out to be canonical we might need to add Vicky (Minnie's mum) as Dennis's older sister.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pastychomper (talk • contribs) 15:18, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship to Minnie the Minx 

message: The strip is now called "Dennis & Gnasher": . Why not also this article? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:29, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title