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is

grateful to the Post-Hall Syndicate, Inc.,

whose columns these cartoons

originally

appeared.

84902-0213

Copyright, 1953, by Henry Ketcham

All rights reserved, including the right to

or portions thereof in

Library of Congress Catalog

Printed

in

reproduce

this

book

any form.

Card Number: 53-8979

the United States of America

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HOW HE USED TO HATE WATER?*

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A,merica's

No.

pin-up

boy has millions chuckling daily the

result of the sharp pen and shrewd

observations of

Hank Ketcham,

The original Dennis

now a strapping boy of

Dennis' father.

Ketcham

is

seven, but his counterpart will eter-

nally hover between the ages of four

and

five.

Since his introduction via news-

papers in the spring of 1951, "Dennis

the

Menace"

has

whammed and

way into being about the most popular of present-day little guys.
The first Dennis the Menace book sold in fabulous numbers and More Dennis
THE Menace promises to do even better.
His spread throughout the United States and other countries reseftibles a
small tidal wave. Post-Hall Syndicate has Dennis in 160 newspapers, daily and
Sunday, and his sardonic little likeness has spread even to merchandise items.
There are "Dennis the Menace" cocktail napkins, barbecue aprons, and kitchen
towels; and later "Dennis the Menace" animated motion picture cartoons, sheet
music, records, and TV will swell the list.
No wonder "Dennis the Menace" has become a descriptive term for any man,
woman, or child who likes to kick over the tracesl
wheedled

his

Price $1.00

Hank Ketcham received

the Billy

DeBck Award given by the

National Cartoonists Society to the outstanding cartoonist of 1952

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CHICAGO

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INC.

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