Why we made Dennis less menacing

The former editor of the Beano, Euan Kerr, revealed today how he toned down the torment of Walter the Softie - for fear that Dennis would be accused of "gay-bashing". Kerr, who edited the children's comic between 1984 and 2006, admitted toning down Dennis in the late 1980s after executives at publishers DC Thomson & Co ruled that victimisation of Walter could be seen as offensive.