The Dandy
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Publisher	D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd
Schedule	fortnightly
Publication date	December 4, 1937 - present
Creative team
Artist(s)	Paddy Brennan James Crighton Bill Holroyd

The Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom. D C Thomson & Co Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing Oor Wullie, The Broons Paddy Brennan is also a successful Irish jump jockey Paddy Brennan is a UK artist who worked mainly for D The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located It is published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. D C Thomson & Co Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing Oor Wullie, The Broons The first issue was printed in 1937 and it claims to be the world's longest running comic. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It was re-named Dandy Xtreme in August 2007. See also The Dandy. Dandy Xtreme is a fornightly British comic published by DC Thomson & Co

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The first issue, under the name The Dandy Comic, was published on December 4, 1937. It was published weekly until September 6, 1941, when wartime paper shortages forced it to switch to fortnightly, alternating with The Beano. The Beano comic is a long-running British children's comic, published by D It returned its weekly schedule on July 30, 1949. With the July 17, 1950, the magazine changed its name to just The Dandy.

After issue 3282 (dated 16 October 2004) in an attempt to boost sales, The Dandy underwent a radical format overhaul. Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " ^[1] The comic was turned towards a more television-oriented style, now printed on glossy magazine paper instead of newsprint. Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally Newsprint is low-cost non-archival Paper most commonly used to print Newspapers plus other publications and advertising material This was recently after when it was sold by D. C Thomson ( makers of the Beano). The Beano comic is a long-running British children's comic, published by D The price was raised from 70p to £1. 20 (99p for the first two weeks), a new comic strip called "Office Hours" appeared, and three supposedly new ones also started, though were actually revivals from a few years earlier Brain Duane ("Jak" and "Dreadlock Holmes"). The Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom.

As of August 2007 (issue 3426), The Dandy has had another update, becoming the fortnightly comic Dandy Xtreme. Other names In Arabic, the month is called أغسطسص ʾUġusṭuṣ or آب ʾĀb; usage varies from place to place and Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. See also The Dandy. Dandy Xtreme is a fornightly British comic published by DC Thomson & Co It now costs £1. 99. ^[2]

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It seems that Dandy characters will no longer grace the cover. The first Dandy Xtreme had Bart Simpson on the cover. See also The Dandy. Dandy Xtreme is a fornightly British comic published by DC Thomson & Co Bartholomew J "Bart" Simpson is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons

Dandy characters

Stars who are currently in the Dandy Xtreme as of April 2008:

Other Dandy stars over the years have included:

• Auntie Clockwise - Misadventures of a girl and her aunt travelling through time in a grandfather clock, a subtle parody of Doctor Who. A longcase clock, also tall-case clock, grandfather clock or floor clock, is a freestanding weight-driven Pendulum clock with the Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC.
• 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)
• Billy Green and his Sister Jean - a somewhat-clumsy boy whose attempts to be environmentally friendly are sabotaged by his younger sister
• Black Bob - a border collie
• Blubba and the Bear (Reprints from Nutty)
• Boy with the Iron Hands - two separate series under that name. This article is about the fictional dog For other meanings see Black Bob (disambiguation. The Border Collie is a breed of Herding dog that originated in the Border country of England and Scotland 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
• 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. A robot is a mechanical or Virtual Artificial agent In practice it is usually an electro-mechanical system which by its appearance or movements
• Brewster Rooster
• British Boys and Girls go West to Canada.
• Bully Beef and Chips
• Captain Hookless - drawn by Pete Player
• 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. Bully Beef and Chips were Fictional characters who had their own strip in the UK comic The Dandy. 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
• 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. Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and also by some police forces or other uniformed organizations A domestic worker, domestic, servingman, servingwoman, or servant is one who works and often also lives within the employer's household Tomboy is a Girl who behaves according to the Gender role of a Boy. Winker Watson is a Fictional character who has his own Comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy.
• Dopey Dinah - mini-strip following a girl who always does wrong.
• Euro School
• Fibba - mini-strip about a boy who is always telling lies
• First Class - similar to Class Act/P5
• Foxy - about a fox who tries to eat the chickens but never suceeds
• Freddy the Fearless Fly - misadventures of a fly. P5 was a Comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy.It was drawn by Dennis the Menace artist Jimmy Hansen.
• Golden Ol' Days - an old man remembers his childhood
• Granny - spin-off strip from Cuddles and Dimples, featuring the pair's grandmother
• Growing Paynes - features two brothers who hate each other
• Hairoil Hal - "your barber pal". Cuddles and Dimples are Fictional characters in the UK comic The Dandy.
• Hector Spectre
• Hungry Horace - a kid forever hungry.
• Hyde and Shriek - Misadventures of the nerdy descendant of Jekyll and Hyde and his vampiric butler. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886
• It's Magic! - mini-strip featuring a young magician whose tricks always go wrong
• Izzy Skint (He Always Is) A young boy who is always broke.
• James (the worst schoolboy)
• Jimmy's Pocket Grandpa - text stories in 1940, 1941.
• The Jocks and the Geordies - the rivalry of pupils of two schools on the Scottish border. The Jocks and the Geordies were Fictional characters who had their own Comic strip in The Dandy comic
• Joe Mince - an unintelligent young boy, similar in personality to Smiffy from The Beano's The Bash Street Kids
• Keyhole Kate - a skinny young girl who can't resist peering through keyholes. The Beano comic is a long-running British children's comic, published by D The Bash Street Kids is an ongoing Comic strip that features in the UK comic The Beano.
• King Dom, The Dandy Lion - a lion who is the king of the jungle
• Korky the Cat
• Korky and the Kits
• 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. Korky the Cat is a Fictional character in a Comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy. Korky the Cat is a Fictional character in a Comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy.
• Marshmallow
• Marvo the Wonder Chicken with Henry Thrapplewhacker the Fortyninth - a performing chicken whose magic tricks always go wrong
• Miss Eve L. The Marshmallow is a Confection that in its modern form typically consists of Sugar or Corn syrup, water Gelatin that has been pre-softened 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- two animals who own pet shops and are rivals
• My own Genie
• Oliver Twister
• Class Act/P5
• P. John Keith Geering ( 9 March 1941 - 13 August 1999) was a British Cartoonist with a distinctive occasionally flamboyant P5 was a Comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy.It was drawn by Dennis the Menace artist Jimmy Hansen. C. Big Ears - a policeman with very large ears. Drawn by John Geering
• Podge - the misadventures of a boy. John Keith Geering ( 9 March 1941 - 13 August 1999) was a British Cartoonist with a distinctive occasionally flamboyant Pádraig Judas O'Leprosy and Rodraig Spartacus O'Leprosy ( b1941 are the two central characters on A Scare at Bedtime, an Irish adult
• Potsworth & Co. - A comic strip based on the Hannah Barbera series of the same name which was more popular in the UK than the U. The Midnight Patrol Adventures in the Dream Zone is an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera in conjunction with Sleepy Kids PLC S.
• 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
• The Red Hot Chilli Dogs (2007-2008) Reprints from Sparky)
• 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. Cuddles and Dimples are Fictional characters in the UK comic The Dandy. The Bash Street Kids is an ongoing Comic strip that features in the UK comic The Beano. Jungle usually refers to a dense Forest in a hot climate such as a Tropical rainforest. 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)
• Smasher (1957-2002, 2007)
• Smitten - a young boy and his problems with love
• Sneaker's Sly Sneaks
• Space Raoul by Jamie Smart
• Spotted Dick - a spotty boy who spent most of his time on a hospital ward (from Hoot)
• Swallowed by a Whale - two airmen stranded on a living island. Eskimos or Esquimaux are Indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the circumpolar region from eastern Siberia ( Russia) across Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States SABLE is an XML Markup language used to annotate texts for Speech synthesis. The Smasher (later shortened to just Smasher) was a character in the British comic The Dandy. The Broons is a comic strip within The Sunday Post newspaper which is published by D The Smasher (later shortened to just Smasher) was a character in the British comic The Dandy. Spotted dick is a steamed Suet Pudding containing Dried fruit (usually currants, commonly served with either Custard or
• Sunny Boy - a highly intelligent boy who misbehaves as he is bored by school
• Ted and the Animals
• Tin Lizzie (Dandy cartoon)
• Tom Tum Hungry obese schoolboy looking for his next meal. Sunday Shipushu (born March 13 1983) well known as Sunny Boy is a Namibian artist and Songwriter.
• 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. Titeuf is a comics series created by the Swiss comics creator Zep which was adapted into an animated TV series and appears in the dedicated Zep (born December 15, 1967) is the Pseudonym of Philippe Chappuis, a comics creator from Switzerland, known for his
• 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. Gilbert Ratchet is a character in the British comic Viz. He first appeared in 1990 created by (the then freelance Davey Jones Viz is a popular British adult Comic magazine that has been running since 1979 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
• Wildfire the War Horse - a horse in WWI helps the allies. Cuddles and Dimples are Fictional characters in the UK comic The Dandy. Sylvester J Pussycat Sr, or simply Sylvester the Cat, or Sylvester is a Fictional character, a three-time Academy Award -winning Anthropomorphic
• 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

Four characters were playable in the PC game Beanotown Racing - Desperate Dan, Bananaman, Brain Duane, and Korky the Cat. Winker Watson is a Fictional character who has his own Comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy.

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
• Dandy Xtreme

References

External links

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