Nigel Appleby

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (previously titled Dennis the Menace and Dennis and Gnasher) is a long-running comic strip in the children's comic The Beano, published by DC Thomson, of Dundee in Scotland. The comic stars a boy named Dennis the Menace and his dog, an "Abyssinian wire-haired tripe hound" named Gnasher. The strip first appeared in issue 452 (dated 17 March 1951) and on sale from 12 March 1951. It is the longest-running strip in the comic. The idea and name of the character emerged w…