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...total of 55 shows will not return to the air next season, ranging from Love and Marriage to Bat Masterson, from Desilu Playhouse to the John Gunther show. The only new series in 1959-60 that really clicked in the ratings was Dennis the Menace, based on Hank Ketcham's comic strip about a sort of Public Enemy...
Human Soil Bank. The appeal of Peanuts lies in its sophisticated melding of wry wisdom and sly oneupmanship. Unlike such funny-page small fry as Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace or Jimmy Ratio's Little Iodine, its characters are disingenuous and uncute. Charlie, whose peanut-bald head is surmounted by a single dispirited curl, is a junior-grade Walter Mitty, whose highflying dreams of popularity crash in endless ignominies. Charlie's characteristic lament: "Good grief!" The chief scorpion in his child's garden of reverses is a promising young termagant named Lucy, who, with apprentice...
MORE DENNIS THE MENACE (64 pp.]-Hank Ketcham-Holt...
...Make Me." Ketcham started cartooning as a Hollywood animator, got a job with Disney at $25 a week. In the Navy during the war, he did cartoons for service publications, later began a regular panel in the Satevepost called Half-Hitch. Dennis was born almost two years ago, when the Ketchams were sighing over their own Dennis, aged 4½, and Mrs. Ketcham remarked, "Dennis is a menace." Father Ketcham, who looks like Dennis' cartoon father, had little trouble taking it from there. There was Dennis standing at a police sergeant's elbow, a slingshot sticking...
Aggressive & Unchanged. Many of Ketcham's ideas for the cartoon no longer come from his son, who has begun to outgrow the caricature. Instead, Ketcham depends on his friend Bob Harmon, 34, a victim of muscular dystrophy, who keeps a steady stream of Dennis cartoon suggestions and captions flowing from his West Coast home, gets a large share of Dennis income. Dennis the Menace will never grow older, never acquire any brothers or sisters, or change in any way. Says Cartoonist Ketcham: "He'll be 4½ and unchanged all his aggressive little life...