Influence On Popular Culture
Darts player Dennis Priestley is known as "The Menace" and wears a shirt with the familiar red and black horizontal bands.
In recent years, the satirical magazine Private Eye has carried comic strips featuring a character sometimes called Beano Boris or Boris the Menace, a blond-haired version of Dennis the Menace, parodying the politician Boris Johnson.
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