High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter the Softy, or Softy Walter as he is sometimes called, is the fictional antagonist of Dennis the Menace in the British children`s comic The Beano. He made his first appearance in the Beano in 1953. He is a prime target of Dennis and his friends. His last name, in a Beano Christmas Carol was said to be Brown, but this may have been an easy rhyme excuse.