Few comic strips in 1976 took the Bicentennial as seriously (or as humorously) as "Dennis the Menace."
Hank Ketcham and his talented crew of cartoonists started their Bicentennial celebrations a week early, on June 27, 1976, with this strip where Dennis and Joey play Revolution:
That followed with several days in which the cast traveled back in time to 1776 and witnessed a few key events during the Revolutionary War. (Excuse the bad scans. Microfiche isn't always the best resource for recapturing old artwork. It took me looking through several different papers just to locate these.)
The whole cast then came together again on Sunday, July 4, for a Yankee Doodle parade, which even mean ol' Mister Wilson couldn't criticize:
That's pretty much all of the Bicentennial in the "Dennis the Menace" comic strip, but there's more Dennis to come. During the 1970s Dennis was also the star of several different comic books, and Bicentennial themes abounded in those issues. Expect a look at them in the weeks ahead.
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