Appearing to have won, the trio leave a humiliated Danny and head home. Whilst all seems fair at first, it is quickly discovered that the three menaces had no intent on fair play when it comes to treasure and it is revealed that Roger had in fact tied Danny's catapult to a piece of string thus yanking it away at a pinnacle moment. Finding him hiding in a storage cupboard, Roger forms a plan to get Danny to duel with Dennis for the treasure. However, Dennis attempts to intimidate the treasure off of Fatty but it quickly flattened leaving Minnie and Roger to chase after Danny, who had just ran with the treasure. ![]() Once the mystery had unfolded that the treasure was buried deep in the Millennium Dome and the Bash Street Kids instantly found it and celebrated their victory. Upon finding out The Bash Street Kids were also hunting for the treasure, the trio followed them to London. Minnie was called over to Dennis' house by Roger who had gained a copy of the Treasure Map due to Smiffy, the dipsy member of The Bash Street Kids, leaving the original in the photocopier machine in Beanotown Library. The plot revolved around treasure which was apparently buried sometime near the end of the 19th century. With the turn of the new century, Minnie was featured in a feature-length strip alongside Dennis the Menace, Roger the Dodger and The Bash Street Kids. She has also been the star of several Beanotown pantomimes, playing the role of Cinderella in each. Minnie also made a cameo in the 1992 Beano Annual story, "Dennis Through The Beano Book", in which she played the Queen of Hearts. However, previously she had filled her father's jumper with balloons and using Pansy's unique hairstyle, manages to burst the balloons causing her father to flee home in the nude, the thought of punishing his daughter forgotten. Despite the fact she is weaker than Pansy, Minnie does manage to withhold four sailors before they finally manage to catch her and tie her up leaving her before her father. This even consists of attempting to sink war submarines, something the old character used to do during The Beano's war times. Throughout the strip she attempts impossible feats in hope to appear just like Pansy. In the strip itself, Minnie dressed up as Pansy Potter in compliance with the editor's wishes. The Beano 's 50th Anniversary issue in 1988 was significant, as an increase in the number of colour pages in the comic led to Minnie appearing in full colour for the first time. She appeared once again alongside Dennis in issue 1894, in which she states that Dennis' famous jersey are actually her trademark thus he has no right to call them 'Dennis Jerseys'. Despite the pain, it appears Minnie still attempts to ensure to the public that she is still an Indian stating her name is 'Minnie – Ha!'. In the end, however, after aggravating a sleeping bull Minnie is caught by a farmer and taken home to be slippered by her father. ![]() Much to her mother's dismay, Minnie's chosen book influences her to take up red Indian traditions in which she gets up to much mischief. His first strip, coincidentally, started similarly to Baxendale's in that Minnie is seen being asked by her mother to read rather than minx. Young art teacher Jim Petrie was given the opportunity. Thomson, a new artist was taken on to continue Minnie's adventures. It was possibly this that began their future eternal rivalry. In the end, she got out of trouble scot free whilst Dennis had to suffer for all her minxing. In the strip, she swapped toys with Dennis for the day as she received his trusty catapult and he proceeded to 'menace' with her doll's pram. Minnie also appeared alongside Dennis the Menace in his own strip in the edition of 23 January 1954 of The Beano. ![]() Like many other Beano stars at the time, many of her later strips showed Minnie to get her comeuppance towards the end be it a cane, slipper or simply a case of karma. This introduced her trademark flaming red hair and red and black jersey. The closing panel shows her thanking her mother for the scrapbook stating she has "won nine scraps with it." Most of Minnie's earlier strips consisted of six-panel boxes however, as her popularity grew, it quickly became more plausible to give Minnie her own full page with added colour. Taking a book, Minnie then proceeds to beat her classmates during a revenge scheme using the scrapbook as a weapon. Her first strip introduced her as "wild as wild can be" and showed her exasperated mother attempting to get her to be more creative rather than fight. Minnie the Minx, created and drawn by Leo Baxendale, first appeared in The Beano in December 1953. Character history Leo Baxendale strips (1953–1962)
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