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[vdhinesh79]

published by bunny books ,is this a rare comics?

[paw broon]

No idea, but I doubt it.  Anyway, that's the pretender, the real Dennis The Menace is this one:-
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f0/61/aa/f061aaf4a97450276e81a8c16ed5cd6a.jpg

[crashryan]

I don't know how many Dennis the Menace paperbacks were published, so I don't know how "rare" they are, but they don't have much interest to collectors. On ebay they typically sell for a dollar or so.

[Captain Audio]

I don't know how many Dennis the Menace paperbacks were published, so I don't know how "rare" they are, but they don't have much interest to collectors. On ebay they typically sell for a dollar or so.

Not surprising considering the nasty revelations about the TV child star who played Dennis. Usually sex crime allegations against child actors are for actions taken years after they grew up. Lil Dennis on the otherhand was a natural born perv.

[vdhinesh79]

Check heritage auctions site

[Robb_K]

Check heritage auctions site

They sell for so little money (giveaway prices) , that I doubt that HA would even handle them, other than, possibly, a stamped editor's copy, especially given that the art inside them is just reprints of the newspaper strip.  So, even plates for these reprint books are probably not collectors' items.

[misappear]

Do I have my facts right on this?  It seems both versions of Dennis appeared, for the first time, on March 12, 1951?

[Robb_K]

Do I have my facts right on this?  It seems both versions of Dennis appeared, for the first time, on March 12, 1951?

The UK version first appeared in Beano Magazine on March 12th, 1951.  I have read in a few places that The US strip, by Hank Ketchum, appeared first three days later, on March 15th, 1951.  But Wikipedia states that Ketcham's US strip debuted in 16 US newspapers on March 12th, 1951.  The two strips are nothing like each other, and there was no Internet at that time, and most people in the two countries had little knowledge of the newspaper comic strips in the other country.  Either way, it is an unbelievable coincidence, as the two authors seemingly had no knowledge that the other had created a similarly-named character at almost the same time.

[SuperScrounge]

Given that Dennis & menace rhyme, two comics coming up with the same name is not that hard to believe.

Ketcham's story is that his then wife yelled at him, "Your son is a menace!" & he thought, "Dennis a menace?" & realized the words rhymed and titled his new comic Dennis the Menace.

Not sure if the British author ever explained how he came up with his title, but the rhyming words were probably a part of it..

[Robb_K]

Given that Dennis & menace rhyme, two comics coming up with the same name is not that hard to believe.

Ketcham's story is that his then wife yelled at him, "Your son is a menace!" & he thought, "Dennis a menace?" & realized the words rhymed and titled his new comic Dennis the Menace.

Not sure if the British author ever explained how he came up with his title, but the rhyming words were probably a part of it..

Yes, but two cartoonists coming up with the same names, for the first time in that industry not only in the same decade, but the same year, and same month, and having their character's debut in a publication on the very same day is an almost impossible coincidence.  For that to happen randomly, the odds against that are astronomical.  And yet, if one or the other somehow found out the other was using that name and planning a new newspaper or magazine comic strip, and it inspired that cartoonist to "steal" that name, and try to make it appear that HE used it first, would have been a mistaken stratagem, and a much more dangerous and perhaps unfruitful pursuit than just finding himself another clever character name with less danger and potential problems attached.  It makes no sense. It just proves that ALL results are possible in randomness, despite the odds against some making them almost (but not quite) impossible.

[paw broon]

This article from the Dundee Courier might be of interest.
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/916761/the-curious-tale-of-two-menacing-children-named-dennis/