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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published July 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36

Cover Details

Characters Dennis Mitchell
Genre children; humor
Pencils Hank Ketcham
Inks Hank Ketcham

1 page Dennis the Menace story "4 Dennis Cartoons"

Synopsis Reprints of 4 daily Dennis the Menace cartoons.
Genre humor
Script Hank Ketcham
Pencils Hank Ketcham
Inks Hank Ketcham
Letters Hank Ketcham

10 page Dennis the Menace story "Dennis the Bookworm"

Characters Dennis Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Alice Mitchell
Genre children; humor
Script Fred Toole
Pencils Al Wiseman
Inks Al Wiseman
Reprinted in Best of Dennis the Menace, The (Hallden, 1959 series) #3; in Dennis the Menace Giant (Hallden; Fawcett, 1958 series) #69; in Dennis the Menace Bonus Magazine Series (Fawcett, 1970 series) #185.

5 page Dennis the Menace story "Meanwhile.... Back at the Ranch..."

Characters Dennis Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Alice Mitchell; Tommy Anderson; George Wilson; Martha Wilson
Genre children; humor
Script Fred Toole
Pencils Al Wiseman
Inks Al Wiseman

2 page text story "Road Closed"

Letters typeset

4 page Punky story "Punky"

Synopsis Punky floats away with some balloons.
Pencils Al Wiseman
Inks Al Wiseman

5 page Dennis the Menace story "The Long and Short of It"

Characters Dennis Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Ruff
Genre children; humor
Script Fred Toole
Pencils Al Wiseman
Inks Al Wiseman
Notes A different story with a similar title ("The Long and the Short of It!") appears in Dennis the Menace (Hallden; Fawcett, 1959 series) #156.

6 page Dennis the Menace story "The Big Build-Up"

Characters Dennis Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Alice Mitchell; Ruff; Tommy Anderson
Genre children; humor
Script Fred Toole
Pencils Al Wiseman
Inks Al Wiseman
Reprinted in Dennis the Menace Pocket Full of Fun (Fawcett, 1969 series) #41.

1 page advertisement "Boys' Clubs of America"

1 page Dennis the Menace story "I'll help ya get dressed, Dad!"

Characters Dennis Mitchell; Henry Mitchell
Genre children; humor
Script Fred Toole
Pencils Al Wiseman
Inks Al Wiseman