63 Years Later, the Stellar Action Comic Strip Most America Never Heard of Deserves Another Shot

This goes double for newspaper comics, which are often viewed as disposable in ways that graphic novels aren't. Surprisingly few of them ever pick up an international audience. Exceptions include Andy Capp and Fred Basset, British strips that have substantially outlived their original creators. They do not include the British Dennis the Menace, which debuted in Beano in 1951, five days after Hank Ketcham started a strip by the same name in America.