Dennis the Menace's very first strip - in 1951. He's not yet wearing his iconic striped football jersey - he's in his school uniform wall art And of course he was

And of course he was a working-class hero – the phrase “The Tough of the Track” was a sort of pun – it referred to his humble background as much as his gritty determination in competition

Max Fleischer

My screenprints and greetings cards are based on drawings by the artist who invented Popeye and Olive Oyl

the strip was soon named after him

creatures created by Finnish author and illustrator Tove Jansson in 1945

Dennis the Menace's very first strip - in 1951. He's not yet wearing his iconic striped football jersey - he's in his school uniform wall art And of course he wasHandmade screen print on beautiful, 100% cotton, mould made paper, milled in Somerset England. Signed and numbered in pencil by me, John Patrick Reynolds. DC Thomson & Co Ltd