"help the underdog. After Watkins’ death in 1969, the cartoons were drawn by many other artists, principally Ken H. Harrison, though the Watkins canon was often recycled. When the Dandy became digital-only in 2012, the Desperate Dan strips were drawn by David Parkins. There is a statue of Dan in Dundee, Scotland, where his publishers, D. C. Thomson & Co. are based. The strip was drawn by Dudley D. Watkins until his death in 1969. Although ""The Dandy Annual""s featured new strips from other artists from then on, the comic continued reprinting Watkins strips until 1983 (though the then Korky"
"The Desperate Dan Book The Desperate Dan books, featuring the comic book character Desperate Dan, were published in 1954, 1978, 1990, 1991 and 1992. Since they were traditionally released in the autumn and in time for Christmas, all bar the first (which had no date) had the date of the following year on the cover. Although not a Desperate Dan Annual, a book celebrating his 60th birthday was released in 1997 called The Legend of Desperate Dan (60 years of classic cartoon art). It featured a history of the strip, and reprints of strips from 1937 to 1967. List of"
"DC Thomson publications The Desperate Dan Book The Desperate Dan books, featuring the comic book character Desperate Dan, were published in 1954, 1978, 1990, 1991 and 1992. Since they were traditionally released in the autumn and in time for Christmas, all bar the first (which had no date) had the date of the following year on the cover. Although not a Desperate Dan Annual, a book celebrating his 60th birthday was released in 1997 called The Legend of Desperate Dan (60 years of classic cartoon art). It featured a history of the strip, and reprints of strips from 1937 to"
"pie with the horns sticking out, although the term ""cow pie"" has a different meaning in the American West. Much like Popeye with his spinach, Desperate Dan draws his immense power from eating these pies. Desperate Dan was voted the UK's second favourite superhero after Batman in 2011. Initially Dan was a desperado on the wrong side of the law, hence the name ""Desperate"" Dan. Later on, however, he switched sides and become a friendlier character, helping the underdog. The first member of his family to appear in the strip was Aunt Aggie (issue 107, dated 16 December 1939) followed"
"prepared previously by a short-lived spin-off strip called ""That's Our Granny"" which established that the two boys shared a grandmother. For many years, the characters appeared in the centre pages (with full colour) of ""The Dandy"". When they first appeared, they appeared in pages 16 and 17 of the then 20-page comic with red and black as the only colours. The characters took over the front page of ""The Dandy"" from issue 3008 (July 1999) until October 2000, when they got 'thrown out' for misbehaving too much (in reality, readers wanted Desperate Dan back on the cover). They were both"
"One was the usual Dudley Watkins reprint, the other was a brand new one by Jamie Smart, who later became Dan's artist and writer for 12 issues in April 2008. The MegaComix Special also featured a guide to drawing, by Jamie Smart, which showed how he drew the Desperate Dan strip (which was over the page). This didn't actually feature, nor did the comic strip, inside the Comix pullout. Later, in early April 2008, Jamie Smart took over writing and illustrating the Desperate Dan comic strips and changed Dan's personality into a big hearted dope who was constantly getting into"
"""being too naughty"", though in reality the comic's readers wanted Dan to return as the cover strip. In 2004, following a major revamp, Desperate Dan was replaced on the front cover by Jak, a character created for the cover, slightly based on an older strip with the same name, although other characters, including Dan, also made occasional cover appearances. The front cover also had a subtitle, for example, ""Better than the Beano"". During the ""Dandy Xtreme"" era the comic had no cover star, and covers were often given over to celebrities or current trends, but after the comic returned to"
"trouble because of his fantastic strength. Zeke's personality was also changed into a person who loved 're-refried beans'. Danny and Katey also disappeared. A number of spin-off strips have appeared in ""The Dandy"" over the years, including Desperate Dawg in the 1970s and 80s, Danny and Katey in the late 1980s and Aunt Aggie in the 2000s (before the 2004 relaunch). A statue of him (and his dog Dawg) can be found in the High Street of Dundee, Scotland – The Dandy is published by D. C. Thomson & Co. who are based in Dundee. According to the writer Norman"
"Tony Morrow, the Desperate Dan statue, which also features his dog Dawg, is the most photographed of 120 pieces of public art in the city. In July 2001 the cover of ""The Dandy"" featured Dan visiting Dundee and encountering his statue. In December 2012 the University of Dundee held an exhibition in partnership with D C Thomson to mark the comic's 75th anniversary. The Dandy The Dandy was a British children's comic published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. The first issue was printed in December 1937, making it the world's third-longest running comic, after ""Il Giornalino"" (cover dated"
"under a different title). The comic has had a number of different cover stars (comic strips appearing on the front cover), firstly Korky the Cat, who was on the cover from 1937–1984. Desperate Dan, long since the comic's most popular character, then took over the cover, a position he retained until 1999 when he was replaced as cover star by Cuddles and Dimples. However, they were not on the cover for very long and Desperate Dan had been restored to the cover by the end of 2000. The comic revealed that Cuddles and Dimples were thrown off the cover for"
"on 30 October 2010, the first after the revamp, and ran continuously each week until issue #3565 on 14 December 2011. It was drawn by Nigel Parkinson, and featured on the majority of ""Dandy"" front covers since its debut, though other ""Dandy"" characters have also featured (most often Desperate Dan and Bananaman). Parkinson also wrote the vast majority of episodes, though Duncan Scott and Sean Baldwin also contributed a few scripts. Despite proving to be a very popular strip in the comic, Nigel Parkinson confirmed on his blog on 8 December that the series was to be discontinued, due to"
"the Twat"" as part of an ongoing feud with Dandy publishers D.C. Thomson. Viz also parodied other popular D.C. Thomson strips, such as ""Desperately Unfunny Dan"", ""Arsehole Kate"", ""Roger the Lodger"" and ""The McBrowntrouts"". Korky the Cat Korky the Cat is a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy. It first appeared in issue 1, dated 4 December 1937, except for one issue, No. 294 (9 June 1945) when Keyhole Kate was on the cover. In 1984, after 47 virtually continuous years, Korky was replaced on the front cover by Desperate Dan. The strip's simple"
"from ""The Beano"", in a style reminiscent of original artist Leo Baxendale. Ken H. Harrison Ken H. Harrison (born 1940) is a British comic book.cartoon artist at DC Thomson. He drew Robbie Rebel, Big Brad Wolf and Lord Snooty for ""The Beano"", The Hoot link title Squad for ""Hoot"" (later reprinted as The Beano's The Riot Squad), The Broons and Oor Wullie for ""The Sunday Post"", Skookum Skool, Spookum Skool and The Snookums for ""Buzz"" and Cracker comics. He drew Desperate Dan for ""The Dandy"" between 1983 and 2007 until ""The Dandy"" was revamped. He drew the front cover illustration"
"saw Kylie become a rival to Robbie, and they no longer seemed to be in a relationship. It is one of the few instances where a Beano character seemed to fancy a girl. Other examples include Fred in Tom Paterson's Fred's Bed who fancies Hannah Montana. Robbie is drawn by Desperate Dan artist Ken H. Harrison, and his clean drawing style immediately cemented the strips'popularity. Because of Ken's continuing work on Desperate Dan, Robbie did not initially appear as regularly as other characters such as Roger the Dodger or Billy Whizz. With Desperate Dan's revamp when the Dandy got a"
"role until 1982, when he was succeeded by Dave Torrie. His replacement, Morris Heggie, left the editorship in 2006 to become the DC Thomson archivist. The final editor of the print edition was Craig Graham. The editor of the digital version launched in 2012 was Craig Ferguson. Over its 75-year run hundreds of different comic strips have appeared in ""The Dandy"", many of them for a very long time. The longest-running strips are Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat, who both appeared in the first issue. Following mergers with ""Nutty"" and ""Hoot"", the Dandy inherited a number of their strips,"
"facelift in September 2004, both were drawn in the same style (as opposed to the 'old' Desperate Dan where Ken drew things more detailed). Following the decision to stop running new Desperate Dan strips in mid-2007, Harrison was able to concentrate entirely on Robbie, who was now able to appear on a weekly basis. In the Beano Christmas special 2007 Robbie Rebel had a joint strip with The Riot Squad. In February 2008 Robbie Rebel left The Beano after 6 years. It has been hinted that Robbie had a terrible accident when he crashed into a tree in his last"
"Dan Garret Dan Garret is a fictional superhero, appearing in American comic books published by multiple companies, including Fox Comics, Charlton Comics, and DC Comics. Garret was created by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski, and made his first appearance in Fox's ""Mystery Men Comics"" #1. Garret is the first character to become the superhero Blue Beetle, predating Ted Kord and Jaime Reyes. Dan Garret, first appeared as the Blue Beetle in Fox Comics' in the August 1939 issue of ""Mystery Men Comics"" with art by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski (as Charles Nicholas), though the Grand Comics Database tentatively credits Will Eisner as the"
"Desperado Publishing picked up the title and re solicited it as an original graphic novel. It was published in October 2008. The Revenant (comics) The Revenant is a crime fiction comic book created by Shannon Eric Denton and Keith Giffen. It has been published by Antarctic Press, Komikwerks and Desperado Publishing respectively. The comic focuses on a mysterious, sadistic crime fighter called The Revenant bent on eliminating the criminal element in the fictitious twin cities of Sapphire City and Jade Harbor. This ghost-like figure may or may not be a reputed gangster who was killed 15 years earlier on during"
"fortnightly, alternating with ""The Beano"". It returned to weekly publication on 30 July 1949. From 17 July 1950 the magazine changed its name to ""The Dandy."" In 1938, less than a year after the comic's debut, the first ""Dandy Annual"" was released. Originally called The Dandy Monster comic, this was an annual bumper edition of the comic and has been released annually since then. In 1954 the first ""Desperate Dan Book"" was released, mostly consisting of reprints. Another was released in 1978, and it was released yearly between 1990 and 1992. Bananaman and Black Bob also had their own annuals."
"Dare"" (). The 2007 series had the first three issues collected into one hardback volume, released in April 2008 (), but the whole series was collected into a single volume by Virgin Comics later in the year, with Dynamite Entertainment also making hardcovers and softcovers available early in 2009: A collection of stories from 2000 AD was published in November 2015. Dan Dare Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. Dare appeared in the ""Eagle"" comic story ""Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future"" from 1950 to 1967"
"name changed to The Dandy Book in 1952 and continued, the year changing for each subsequent annual, until the release of the 2003 book in 2002 when it was renamed ""The Dandy Annual"". Despite the comic's relaunch as Dandy Xtreme in 2007, the annual was still known as ""The Dandy Annual"". This is likely because the annuals of the time were mostly made up of ""Dandy Comix"", due to the topical nature of the magazine's ""Xtreme"" content. In unison with the comic at the time, the front cover usually featured Korky the Cat. After Desperate Dan took over the front"
"Dan the Dyna-Mite Dan the Dyna-Mite is a fictional character, a teen-aged superhero published by DC Comics. He was the young sidekick to the character TNT, and was created by Mort Weisinger and Hal Sharp in 1942. TNT and Dyna-Mite made their debut in ""World's Finest Comics"" #5, and starred in ""Star-Spangled Comics"" #7-23. Danny Dunbar was the star pupil of Thomas N. Thomas, a high school chemistry and physical education teacher. One evening while Thomas and Dunbar are working on an experiment, Thomas' hand accidentally touches Dunbar's and both teacher and student find themselves feeling more energized. Thomas realizes"
"Ken H. Harrison Ken H. Harrison (born 1940) is a British comic book.cartoon artist at DC Thomson. He drew Robbie Rebel, Big Brad Wolf and Lord Snooty for ""The Beano"", The Hoot link title Squad for ""Hoot"" (later reprinted as The Beano's The Riot Squad), The Broons and Oor Wullie for ""The Sunday Post"", Skookum Skool, Spookum Skool and The Snookums for ""Buzz"" and Cracker comics. He drew Desperate Dan for ""The Dandy"" between 1983 and 2007 until ""The Dandy"" was revamped. He drew the front cover illustration for ""Classics from the Comics"". Until 2012 he drew Minnie the Minx"
"Dane (comics) Dane is a fictional character from DC Comics/Wildstorm. Created by Whilce Portacio. In the 1970s Jackson Dane was a Detachment Delta who was recruited into a special ops team known as Team-7. During one of their missions the group was deliberately exposed to a mutagenic substance known as the Gen Factor, which unleashed psychic abilities in the whole squad. Some Team 7 members died, others went mad and had to be killed. After another mission where their superior (the same one who had exposed them) tried to kill them by exploding a small nuclear device in their vicinity,"
"Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Dennis and Gnasher (previously titled Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, and originally titled Dennis the Menace) is a long-running comic strip in the British children's comic ""The Beano"", published by DC Thomson, of Dundee, Scotland. The comic stars a boy named Dennis the Menace and his Abyssinian wire-haired tripe hound Gnasher. The strip first appeared in issue 452, dated 17 March 1951 (on sale 12 March 1951), and is the longest-running strip in the comic. The idea and name of the character emerged when the comic's editor heard a British music hall song with the"
"the ""Desperate Dan"" strip for ""The Dandy"" comic, launched in December 1937. His workload was further increased when D.C. Thomson created ""The Beano"", an eight-page comic booklet, with Watkins being responsible for drawing the ""Lord Snooty"" strip. The Beano's first edition was dated 30 July 1938. When the ""Beezer"" and ""Topper"" were launched in the 1950s, Watkins was responsible for illustrating the ""Ginger"" strip (based largely on ""Oor Wullie"", but unlike that strip the text was written in standard English and not in Scots vernacular) and the ""Mickey the Monkey"" strip for the two comics. Watkins' most enduring adventure strip"
"ever print edition of the Dandy, a 100-page edition featuring a countdown of the comic's ""Top 75 Characters"", was published on 4 December 2012. However, The Dandy continued online and in the Dandy App, with long-running characters like ""Desperate Dan"", ""Bananaman"", ""Blinky"", ""Sneaker"" and ""Hyde & Shriek"" making the transition to digital alongside a re-imagined version of ""Keyhole Kate"" - transformed from nosey parker into a schoolgirl sleuth - a new take on former ""Beezer"" characters ""The Numskulls"", and a superhero team consisting of revamped versions of former D.C. Thomson action stars - including The Dandy's (and the U.K.'s) first"
"only disappeared from the comic earlier that year. Brought in through an attempt to boost the comic to modern-day youth, he replaced Desperate Dan on the cover. He continued to be the cover star for two years until 2007 marked the second radical Dandy launch in a decade. With the launch of Dandy Xtreme in August 2007, the strip was renamed Jak and Todd, giving Jak best friend equal billing. However, the comic's front cover no longer featured its original characters, favouring advertisements for new movies instead. As the ""Dandy"" went through yet another re-launch (this time dropping the X-Treme"
"Fancy Dan Fancy Dan is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was one of the founding members of the Enforcers, a super villain group who was first pitted against Spider-Man in ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" #10 (March 1964). Fancy Dan first appeared in ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" #10 (March 1964), and was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Daniel Brito was born in Brooklyn, New York. Along with Montana and Ox (Raymond Bloch), he was a founding member of the Enforcers. He has great proficiency with judo and karate. Fancy Dan and the original"
"novel, ""The Strangelove Gambit,"" details Dante's misadventures as a tutor in a boarding school for young ladies that hides a deadly secret. In the second, ""Imperial Black,"" Dante is forced to seek out an ancient citadel on the roof of the world. The final Dante novel to date, ""Honour Be Damned,"" is a romp set in future Britain that spoofs ""The 39 Steps"". All of the novels are currently out of print, but E-book editions are available. So far they include: Nikolai Dante Nikolai Dante was a comic book series published in the weekly British science fiction anthology ""2000 AD"""
"board, victim of a heart attack. It is a testament to Watkins' work that D. C. Thomson continued to reprint Oor Wullie and Broons strips in ""The Sunday Post"" for seven years before a replacement was found. Watkins' ""Desperate Dan"" strips were reprinted in ""The Dandy"" for fourteen years. In a 2006 BBC documentary marking 70 years of Oor Wullie, it was claimed that, due to his frequent mocking of Axis leaders in his comics before and during World War II, Watkins' name was on a list of enemies of the Third Reich. Dudley D. Watkins Dudley Dexter Watkins (27"
"marked the beginning of the Golden Age of Comic Books, in which the superhero genre was prominent. In the UK and the Commonwealth, the DC Thomson-created ""Dandy"" (1937) and ""Beano"" (1938) became successful humor-based titles, with a combined circulation of over 2 million copies by the 1950s. Their characters, including ""Dennis the Menace"", ""Desperate Dan"" and ""The Bash Street Kids"" have been read by generations of British schoolboys. The comics originally experimented with superheroes and action stories before settling on humorous strips featuring a mix of the Amalgamated Press and US comic book styles. The popularity of superhero comic books"
"characters did not necessarily grace the cover every issue; instead, celebrities and other cartoon characters were featured; the first ""Dandy Xtreme"" had Bart Simpson on the cover. The ""Dandy Xtreme"" had a theme for each issue, usually a movie or TV show. From 27 October 2010 (issue 3508) ""The Dandy"" returned as a weekly comic and dropped ""Xtreme"" from its title. The contents received a major overhaul, and all the comic strips from the ""Xtreme"" era except for Desperate Dan, Bananaman and The Bogies were dropped. Bananaman was also taken over by a new artist, Wayne Thompson, and Korky the"