The current (as of 2005) Dandy logo, introduced with the October 2004 Dandy relaunch. ...

History Of The Dandy

The Dandy is a British children's comic published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd of Dundee, Scotland, which was first issued on 3 December (dated 4 December) 1937, and is currently the longest running comic in the UK, which it became as of issue 3007 (dated 10 July 1999). This beat the previous record holder, Comic Cuts, which ran for 3006 issues between 17 May 1890 - 12 September 1953. Internationally very few titles surpass the Dandy’s achievement, beaten in terms of duration by Detective Comics (USA) which began in March 1937 and is still running today. In terms of number of issues Pepin (Mexico) ran for 7,561 issues.The original editor was Albert Barnes from the first issue up until 1982 - legend has it that Desperate Dan's chin was based on Albert's own chin. He was succeeded by Dave Torrie in 1980, before Dave went to edit The Beezer when he was in turn succeeded by Morris Heggie. Morris handed over to Craig Graham in 2006. There have been several long-running strips in The Dandy over the years. The most enduring is Desperate Dan who has been in all issues since the first one in 1937, bar a brief period in 1997 where he 'left' the comic, only to return for the comic's 60th anniversary issue in that year. Korky the Cat also featured in the first issue, and despite being quietly dropped in January 2005, he returned in November and still makes irregular appearances in The Dandy today. Other long-running characters include Winker Watson, Brassneck and Cuddles & Dimples.Also, because many strips in The Beano are drawn by the same artists, crossovers between the two comics also occur occasionally. As well as this, the comics develop a friendly rivalry. (e.g. "I quit! The Dandy is much safer" "This would never happen in The Beano!") Nutty merged with The Dandy in 1985, followed by Hoot in 1986. An 8 foot bronze statue of Desperate Dan stands in the centre of his birthplace - Dundee. The first issue of The Dandy, complete with free gift, sold for a record £20,350 on 7 September 2004; the highest price ever paid for a British comic at an auction. For other uses, see Child (disambiguation). ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... D. C. Thomson & Co. ... For other uses, see Dundee (disambiguation). ... This article is about the country. ... is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 338th day of the year (339th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... is the 137th day of the year (138th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cover of Detective Comics #27 (May 1939). ... Statue of Desperate Dan in Dundee, Scotland city centre Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the British comic The Dandy. ... The Beezer was a British comic book that started on 21 January 1956 and ran until 21 August 1993, when it merged with The Beano. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Statue of Desperate Dan in Dundee, Scotland city centre Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the British comic The Dandy. ... Korky the Cat was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy. ... This March 2007 does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Nutty was a British comic book that ran for 292 issues from 16 February 1980 to 14 September 1985, when it merged with The Dandy. ... For the 2002 young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen, see Hoot (Hiaasen). ... For other uses, see Dundee (disambiguation). ... is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Image Updates

After issue 3282 (dated 16 October 2004) in an attempt to boost sales, The Dandy underwent a radical format overhaul.^[1] The comic was turned towards a more television-oriented style, now printed on glossy magazine paper instead of newsprint. The price was raised from 70p to £1.20 (99p for the first two weeks), a new comic strip called Office Hours appeared, and two supposedly new ones also started, though were actually revivals from a few years earlier (Jak and Dreadlock Holmes. However, as of August 2007 (issue 3426), The Dandy has had another update, becoming the fortnightly comic Dandy Xtreme. It now costs £1.99.^[2] is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Newsprint is low-cost, low-quality, non-archival paper. ... The Dandy is a British childrens comic published by D. C. Thomson & Co. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6929615.stm - Traditional Dandy Comic Ditched (BBC.co.uk).

It seems that Dandy characters will no longer grace the cover. The first Dandy Xtreme had Bart Simpson on the cover. For the comic book series of the same name, see Bart Simpson comics. ...

Dandy Characters

Stars who are currently in the Dandy Xtreme as of August 2007:

• Agent Dog 2 Zero
• Bananaman (Reprints from the Funday Times)
• Blubba and the Bear (Reprints from Nutty)
• Captain Hookless - drawn by Pete Player
• Cuddles and Dimples
• Desperate Dan - from the fictional American town of Cactusville. A man tougher than iron living with a long suffering old aunt and later, a nephew, a niece and a dog. (Classic Reprints from 1940s Dandy comics)
• Jak and Todd
• Ollie Fliptrik
• The Red Hot Chilli Dogs (Reprints from Sparky)
• Smasher - a boy with a tendency to destroy things. (Reprints)

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• Addie and Hermy - misadventures of Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering, the nasty Nazis.
• Auntie Clockwise - Misadventures of a girl and her aunt travelling through time in a Grandfather clock, a subtle parody of Doctor Who.
• Bad Max
• Bamboo Town - laughs among jungle animals in their town.
• Barney Boko - a tramp with a nose about two foot long.
• Big Head and Thick Head - the adventures of two friends, one making stupid mistakes, the other too clever for his own good
• Barney the Wonder Winger - a young footballer; Barney was the Dandy's first major ethnic minority character (not Dreadlock Holmes as was suggested at the comic's relaunch)
• Beryl the Peril - Also known as just "Beryl" (from The Topper)
• Billy Green and his Sister Jean - a somewhat-clumsy boy whose attempts to be environmentally friendly are sabotaged by his younger sister
• Bing-Bang Benny - an American fur trapper
• Black Bob
• Blinky (from The Beezer and Topper)
• Boy with the Iron Hands - two separate series under that name.
• Brain Duane - A bald, big-headed spectacled boy genius whose inventions seem to go pear-shaped when used.
• Brassneck - Charlie Brand and his metal pal.
• British Boys and Girls go West to Canada.
• Bully Beef and Chips
• Bertie Buncle and his Chemical Uncle
• Captain Handsome - Seemed to have replaced Bananaman. When Bananaman returned, Captain Handsome ended.
• Claude Hopper - a boy with extremely large feet
• Comic Cuts - page of mini-strips which invited readers to write to the comic if they had a comic pal they wanted to see again. Characters did not have to be Dandy stars; even Beano characters of the time were occasionally featured.
• Corporal Clott - an incompetent Corporal effectively acting as manservant to his superior officer
• Cowrin' Wolf
• Dandy Doodles - Mini versions of popular Dandy characters, with the strip typically focusing on their relationships with the artist
• Daring Deeds of the Sheriff's Little Sister
• Der Daft Dachshunds - mini-strip featuring two hounds named Willem and Fritz
• Desperate Dawg - a sheriff who was also a dog
• Dinah Mo - a tomboy
• Dirty Dick - drawn identically to Winker Watson, a boy who could not help getting unclean during his misadventures.
• Dopey Dinah - mini-strip following a girl who always does wrong.
• Drake's Drummer Boy - text.
• Dreadlock Holmes
• Dumb Belle
• Fibba - mini-strip about a boy who is always telling lies
• Fiddle O' Diddle
• First Class
• Frawg
• Freddy the Fearless Fly - misadventures of a fly.
• Golden Ol' Days - an old man remembers his childhood
• Granny - spin-off strip from Cuddles and Dimples, featuring the pair's grandmother
• Greedy Pigg
• Growing Paynes
• Hairoil Hal - "your barber pal".
• Ham and Egghead
• Harry and his Hippo
• Hector Spectre
• Hungry Horace - a kid forever hungry.
• Hyde and Shriek - Misadventures of the nerdy descendant of Jekyll and Hyde and his vampiric butler.
• It's Magic! - mini-strip featuring a young magician whose tricks always go wrong
• Izzy Skint (You Bet He Is)(He Always Is) A young boy who is always broke.
• Jack Silver
• James the World's Worst Schoolboy
• Jimmy's Green Genie (revised reprint of Ali's Baba from The Sparky(and later The Topper).
• Jimmy's Pocket Grandpa - text stories in 1940, 1941.
• The Jocks and the Geordies - the rivaliry of pupils of two schools on the Scottish border.
• Joe Mince - an unintelligent young boy, similar in personality to Smiffy from The Beano's The Bash Street Kids
• Jonah (from The Beano)
• Keyhole Kate - a skinny young girl who can't resist peering through keyholes.
• King Dom, The Dandy Lion - a lion who is the king of the jungle
• Korky the Cat
• Laughing Planet, The, with David Chattenborough - spoof of television wildlife documentaries, in which the presenter meets some unusual creatures
• Little White Chief of the Cherokees - a British boy is made chief of the Cherokees but must complete a number of tasks against monsters.
• Marvo the Wonder Chicken with Henry Thrapplewhacker the Fortyninth - a performing chicken whose magic tricks always go wrong
• Miss Eve L. Powers, I Hate - mini-strip featuring a wicked school teacher and her class
• My Pal, Baggy Pants - about a boy and his best friend, a twelve-foot tall Arabian 'wizard' complete with magic carpet
• Meddlesome Matty - her meddling gets her into trouble.
• Molly - story of a spoilt girl and her doting parents
• Monkey Business - a group of monkeys who ran a supermarket. Drawn by John Geering
• Mr Mutt - a gullible teacher often tricked by his class
• Mutt and Moggy - aka Puss 'n' Boots
• My Own Genie
• The Nutters (revised reprint from Cracker)
• Oliver Twister
• Our Gang - from the last lot of Our Gang films, Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat, etc. Pictures with text underneath.
• Owen Goal (still will appear very occasionally)
• Class Act/P5
• P.C. Big Ears - a policeman with very large ears. Drawn by John Geering
• Peter Pest (from Nutty)
• Peter's Pocket Grandpa
• Podge - the misadventures of a boy.
• Postman Patel a Sikh postman who originally came from the Cuddles and Dimples stories
• Puss 'n' Boots (from Sparky)
• Rah-Rah Randall Each frame either cheering or booing
• Richard's Snitch - a boy with a long nose that seemed to have a personality of its own
• Reg Hog: The Spiked Avenger - a tough "gothic" hedgehog
• Robin Hood's Schooldays - similar to The Bash Street Kids but set in medieval times
• Robinson and his dog Crusoe - a boy apparently living in an African jungle
• Roly Poly Joe - a short strip taking incongruous settings characteristic of some strips to the extreme. Joe appeared to be an Eskimo, an Indian and army boy combined
• Rusty - a generic resourceful/mischievous boy
• Sable - mini-strip starring a posh female cat
• Sammy Supersnail - mini-strip based on a snail who originally featured in the Smasher strip
• Screwy Driver A bungling DIY handyboy
• Sherman Tortoise - a tortoise living in the grounds of a stately home, who has an army of insects that protect him from Scythe, the resident gardener
• Sir Coward de Custard - a craven knight
• Smarty Grandpa - a crafty old man appeared in the early days of the Dandy (He is a lookalike to Granpaw Broon of The Broons)
• Smitten - a young boy and his problems with love
• Sneaker
• Space Raoul by Jamie Smart
• Spotted Dick - a spotty boy who spent most of his time on a hospital ward (from Hoot)
• Spunky and his Spider
• (Eddie Potter at) Strange Hill School
• Swallowed by a Whale - two airmen stranded on a living island.
• Sunny Boy - a highly intelligent boy who misbehaves as he is bored by school
• Ted and the Animals
• Ten Watt Spot
• There's a curse on the King! - text story about Magic Land.
• Tin Lizzie (Dandy cartoon)
• Tom Tum Hungry obese schoolboy looking for his next meal.
• Tony and Alberto (translated version of French comic strip Tony et Alberto
• Tootuff (translated version of Swiss-French comic strip Titeuf by Zep)
• Tricks of Tommy - a boy ventriloquist who gets into trouble.
• Tricky Dicky Doyle
• The Tricks of Screwy Driver - the misadventures of an inventive schoolboy. This strip seems to have been the inspiration of Gilbert Ratchet from Viz
• Tristan, The Vicar's Son - the misadventures of the son of a church vicar. The vicar in question appeared occasionally in the Cuddles and Dimples strip
• Watch the Burdie - a cat's attempts to catch a pet budgie; a similar idea to the Sylvester and Tweety Bird animated cartoons
• Wendy's Wicked Stepladder - a girl and her problematic stepladder
• Whacko
• Wildfire the War Horse - a horse in WWI helps the allies.
• Wild Man of the Woods - a native who mistreats animals in the jungle.
• Winker Watson
• World's Daftest Discoveries, The, with David Chattenborough - single panel drawing packed with bizarre creatures, spin-off from The Laughing Planet
• Young Dandy

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Features

Current features in the Dandy include :

• Nerve Centre - Intro. Inner features include:
  • Kangaroo Court
  • Suspicious Snaps
  • Ugly Stick
  • Pimp Da Chimp
• Most Wanted - Hate or Rate the "Hottest New Gear"
• You're Having a Barf - Gross fact page
• Xtreme Wacked - A group of prankster kids in a photo comic
• Dandy Comix - Pull-out comic section
• Layzee Boys Guide - Game tips
• Xtreme Games Central - New game releases
• Widescreen - "If it's on, it's in!"
• Eat My Goal - Football page
  • Snipz
• Xtreme Skillz - Learn new skills in different activities such as skateboarding and football.

See also

• The Dandy Annual
• The Beano
• The Magic Comic
• List of DC Thomson publications
• List of magazines published in Scotland
• British comics

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References

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External links

• Official Dandy site
• Comics UK: Dandy
• Beano ad Dandy fan site