His star turn on the hit show in the 1950s and ’60s endeared him to millions of TV viewers — but by his account left him with the scars of a miserable youth.

Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV’s “Dennis the Menace” for four seasons starting in 1959, has died. He was 73.

The godfather of Calvin (of "Calvin & Hobbes") and Bart Simpson, Jay North's Dennis the Menace is, unlike them, very much a child; he has no adult thoughts, he's not an instrument for satire. Just good deeds gone minorly wrong.