Al Meets Dennis the Menace! (Part 1)
From "Dennis the Menace" #30 (September, 1958).
What can I say about this story? It speaks for itself: Al meets Dennis and Dennis proceeds to make Al's life a living hell. Isn't that what Dennis is for anyway? Oh, and "Dennis the Menace" comic book writer Fred Toole also shows up. So where's Hank? He probably knew enough to stay far away. Had Hank been there, Dennis would've likely been sent to military school by the end of the story...
"Al Meets Dennis the Menace!" posts:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Please order "Dennis the Menace" books from Fantagraphics (and ask them to reprint the Wiseman "Dennis" comic books and Sunday strips).
"Dennis the Menace" & related characters (but not Al Wiseman) are ©Hank Ketcham Enterprises, Inc.
3 Comments:
I was a kid in the early 70s, and along with my Carl Barks and Little Lulu comics, my other favorites were the various giant-sized and digest comic books that reprinted many tons of old Dennis stories. While I admire Ketcham's dailies, to this day I prefer those wonderful books. Many of the stories were definitely by Wiseman. I wish I didn't let my mom throw them out years later.
Anonymous,
Yeah, I first read Al's Dennis comics through the reprints also (the digests and giant-sized collections). Great stuff!
Bill; I just discovered your blog yesterday thanks to a new friend on Flickr, Glen Mullaly.
As a kid growing up in the 70's I adored the Pocket Full O' Fun Digests and could never understand why some of the comics were so beautiful while others seems scribbly and, well, ugly, by comparison.
I remember reading some years ago in a Comics Journal interview with the Hernandez brothers that they had loved the early Dennis Comics - not the Ketcham drawn ones - but rather those of a ghost artist.
Now I realize it was Wiseman!
Thanks so much for your tremendous devotion and generosity in sharing all these images and details of this fabulous illustrator's career with us!
You're doing a great public service in making sure Al Wiseman gets the credit and recognition he so richly deserves.
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