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| - Law was born and raised in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh College of Art. He first worked for Odhams Press as an illustrator, before moving to D. C. Thomson in the early 1930s. He drew cartoons for Thomsons newspapers like the Evening Telegraph, including a strip called The Wee Fella. He was taken ill in 1970, and his strips were taken over by other artists, including David Sutherland on Dennis the Menace and John Dallas on Beryl the Peril. Law returned briefly to The Beano in 1971, but died in April that year, aged 63.
- David Law was a young straight-talking, dark-haired man who, with Angie Dean, ran the Jet Girl modelling agency. In October 1975, Tricia Hopkins and Gail Potter answered an ad for a course the agency was running which was about to start.
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| - Law was born and raised in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh College of Art. He first worked for Odhams Press as an illustrator, before moving to D. C. Thomson in the early 1930s. He drew cartoons for Thomsons newspapers like the Evening Telegraph, including a strip called The Wee Fella. His most famous creation, Dennis the Menace, first appeared in The Beano issue 452, dated 17 March 1951. Due to British comics being printed several days before distribution to newsagents (bearing the date of the following week to give them a longer shelf life), it seems beyond dispute that the UK Dennis saw print before Hank Ketcham's identically named Dennis the Menace, which began syndication in the USA on March 12, 1951. It's possible that - at the very latest - the British version could have made his public debut on the same day as his Stateside counterpart, although it seems likely that he preceded him even in that. However, it's still unknown which character was actually created first. Law's Dennis was a juvenile Anti-hero, uncontrollable and destructive, drawn in spontaneous, edgy lines, and was an immediate hit; the strip eventually displaced Biffo the Bear on the comic's full colour front cover in 1974. Law went on to create Beryl the Peril, a similarly anarchic female character, for the Topper in 1953, and the accident-prone soldier Corporal Clott for The Dandy in 1960. He was taken ill in 1970, and his strips were taken over by other artists, including David Sutherland on Dennis the Menace and John Dallas on Beryl the Peril. Law returned briefly to The Beano in 1971, but died in April that year, aged 63.
- David Law was a young straight-talking, dark-haired man who, with Angie Dean, ran the Jet Girl modelling agency. In October 1975, Tricia Hopkins and Gail Potter answered an ad for a course the agency was running which was about to start. David and Angie conducted what seemed to be a fairly normal interview with the two girls; in fact, David appeared to try to put them off by warning them about how much work they would have to put in while he and Angie disagreed on whether there would be room for them on the course at all, with David taking some persuading by Angie to take them on, although he did soon agree. He then took some photographs of the girls in bikinis, which was enough to have them swooning over him after the interview. The next day, Tricia and Gail returned with the other girls who'd signed for the course to pay £20, half the total fee. After a short pep-talk from David and Angie, the girls were told to return the next morning to start the course. Tricia and Gail were so excited that they returned to the studio later that day - only to find an empty lot being tended to by the building caretaker, as if the agency had never been there. The caretaker told them the agency had hurriedly packed up and left, leaving the girls penniless and feeling used. Whether the agency was a con from the beginning, or whether it had simply gone bust, Tricia and Gail could only wonder.
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