Number 2522: This Dennis...this Menace

K-O Comics #1 was a one-shot from 1945, crediting Gerona Publishing in the indicia. I am guessing that K-O was probably put together and published by partnering up with a non-comics company with a wartime paper ration. The Menace is a two fisted hero, a movie star (of horror movies, no less). The Menace’s name is Dennis Temple, predating the popular Dennis the Menace comic panel by Hank Ketcham by a few years at least. (The name is a natural...there is also a completely different Dennis the Menace in comics published in the UK.)

The Public Domain Super Heroes website says of this Menace, Dennis, that “The Menace has no super powers but is a skilled fighter and he uses a variety of gadgets in his war against crime.” He only appeared a couple of times. His other appearance was in another 1945 one-shot, Top Spot Comics #1.

It is telling of the perception of Mexico in 1945 that the Mexico-U.S.A. border is shown as a rustic wooden sign on a single-lane dirt road, with a couple of Border Patrol members to check out a lone car going south into Mexico.

The Grand Comics Database has all question marks for story and art. They don't know, nor do I.