Created and originally drawn by Leo Baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 December 1953, making her the third longest running Beano character behind Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger.

Minnie is depicted as a tomboy, with a real name of Hermione Makepeace[1] Like Desperate Dan from The Dandy, she has a statue in Dundee.

In 2021, Minnie the Minx featured on a commemorative UK postage stamp issued by the Royal Mail to mark 70 years of Dennis the Menace.

[3] 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Once the mystery had unfolded that the treasure was buried deep in the Millennium Dome, the Bash Street Kids instantly found it and celebrated their victory.

Finding him hiding in a storage cupboard, Roger forms a plan to get Danny to duel with Dennis for the treasure.

Alongside Dennis, Minnie chased Roger through the streets of Beanotown, giving Danny the opportunity to switch the treasure.

The following week, Calamity James artist Tom Paterson took over the strip, adding his own distinct trademarks and ideas on Minnie's canon.

It was revealed in succeeding issues that this, along with several other strips from around the same time, was a buildup to a brand new PC Game Beanotown Racing.

However, in the autumn of that year, Paterson returned to the strip, but in a different style, the most notable change being that Minnie's Parents appeared to look very similar to those of Sweeney Toddler.

Some minor changes were made to her appearances, with her standard brown or grey school shoes replaced with the more modern trainers.

Cheryl Cole, who was spotted sporting a red and black dress in her music video, was featured as well as Wayne Rooney and Jamie Oliver.

Each attempt landed Minnie in more trouble than the last so, in her final strip, she decided to give up the search for fame and instead continue her day-to-day minxing.

Minnie also met Harry Hill, Jeremy Clarkson and Matt Smith (plus others) in the 2013 Comic Relief special.

During Parkinson's time he tried to surprise the readers by never following a script template and allowing Minnie's character to dictate storylines.

In 2013, Minnie stories went back up to two pages, with Nigel Parkinson and Paul Palmer and, later in 2015, Cavan Scott writing the scripts.

As opposed to Dennis' boisterous menacing methods, Minnie favours a more impish style of causing trouble which she refers to as 'minxing'.

Minnie can be deemed as hyperactive as evident in several strips which show her destroying furniture in her home or a shop whilst playing one of her games.

The curry effect on Delilah happened at the time her boastful mother had arranged for a journalist to take her photo.

She also appears to have a small rivalry with The Bash Street Kids, as shown in feature-length strips drawn by Mike Pearse.

Minnie, like most characters, is depicted as a loner; however, she is shown to have a friendship with Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger, often seen teaming up with them in crossovers and occasionally with them in the background.

Chester has occasionally been seen in separate strips alongside fellow feline Beano characters Dodgecat (Roger the Dodger's pet cat) and Winston (from the Bash Street Kids).

He was briefly the subject of a spin-off strip in the early 1990s that parodied famous films, usually in ways involving the character's love of food (examples including 'You Only Eat Rice' and '20,000 Leeks Under The Sea').