Does Dennis "Hey Mr. Wilson!" in the US have anything to do with Britain's Dennis the Menace character?

Baloo55th

Not so far as I can see. The style of drawing is totally different. The American Dennis could only be American, while the UK one is in the house style of D.C. Thompson. the publishers of the Beano. The two strips are very nearly the same age - the American strip being three days older. The characters are different. The US Dennis is not the total horror that the UK one is, and he's five years younger too. Leaving the Addams Family out of the equation, I don't think the USA would have appreciated a UK Dennis back in 1951. Kids were supposed to be loveable there. Here we had D.C. Thompson's comics (Dennis, Minnie the Minx, the Bash St Kids) and the horrible brats in the Giles cartoons. We weren't as sentimental as the Americans were. Now, of course, there's the ghoulish at times (most times) Red Meat to redress the balance. Source: Baloo's youth and info from Wikipedia et al. Nov 06 07, 12:58 PM