"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 1 October 1924) and ""Detective Comics"" (cover dated March 1937). From August 2007 until October 2010, it was rebranded as ""Dandy Xtreme"". One of the best selling comics in British popular culture, along with ""The Beano"", ""The Dandy"" reached sales of two million a week in the 1950s. The final printed edition was issued on 4 December 2012, the comic's 75th anniversary, after"
"the first ""The Dandy Comic"" in December 1937. It had a revolutionary design that broke away from the usual children's comics that were published broadsheet in size and not very colourful. Thomson capitalized on its success with a similar product ""The Beano"" in 1938. Interwar Britain Interwar Britain (1919–1939) was a period of peace and relative economic stagnation. In politics the Liberal Party collapsed and the Labour Party became the main challenger to the dominant Conservative Party throughout the period. The Great Depression impacted Britain less severely economically and politically than other major nations, although there were severe pockets of"
"that predominated in the US. Gifford observed that the ""Thirties were the Golden Age of British comics"" due to the profusion of successful, high quality and specifically British humour comics beginning in the 1930s, including D.C. Thomson's ""The Dandy"" (4 December 1937), ""The Beano"" (30 July 1938) and ""Magic"" (22 July 1939) and Amalgamated Press's ""Jingles"" (1934), ""Jolly"" (1935), ""Golden"" (23 October 1937), ""Radio Fun"" (15 October 1938), ""Happy Days"" (8 October 1938) and ""Knockout"" (4 March 1939). The start of the Second World War in 1939, and the resulting paper shortages, marked the end of many of the titles,"
"British comics A British comic is a periodical published in the United Kingdom that contains comic strips. It is generally referred to as a comic or a comic magazine, and historically as a comic paper. British comics are usually comics anthologies which are typically aimed at children, and are published weekly, although some are also published on a fortnightly or monthly schedule. The two most popular British comics, ""The Beano"" and ""The Dandy"", were released by DC Thomson in the 1930s. By 1950 the weekly circulation of both reached two million. Explaining the enormous popularity of comics in British popular"
"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"
"magazines became quite popular, especially those published by DC Thomson; the publisher sent observers around the country to talk to boys and learn what they wanted to read about. The story line in magazines, comic books and cinema that most appealed to boys was the glamorous heroism of British soldiers fighting wars that were exciting and just. D.C. Thomson issued the first ""The Dandy Comic"" in December 1937. It had a revolutionary design that broke away from the usual children's comics that were published broadsheet in size and not very colourful. Thomson capitalized on its success with a similar product"
"The Magic Comic The Magic Comic was a British comics magazine. It was the ill-fated third comics magazine from DC Thomson (after ""The Beano"" and ""The Dandy""). It was aimed at a younger audience, with more emphasis on picture stories. The first issue was published on 22 July 1939. The comic ran for only 80 issues until 25 January 1941. Paper rationing resulting from the outbreak of the Second World War caused its demise. Two annuals, named ""The Magic Fun Book"", were also published in 1941 and 1942. From 1943 to 1949, ""The Magic Comic"" would share its annual with"
"The Beano The Beano is the longest running British children's comic magazine, published by DC Thomson. The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. In September 2009, ""The Beano""'s 3,500th issue was published. One of the best selling comics in British popular culture, along with ""The Dandy"", the weekly circulation of ""The Beano"" in April 1950 was 1,974,072. ""The Beano"" is currently edited by John Anderson. Each issue is published on a Wednesday, with the issue date being that of the following Saturday. ""The Beano"" will strike 4000 issues in the summer of 2019. Its characters"
"actors, plus more general articles about teenage life, whilst throwing in a few comic strips for good measure. In British comics history, there are some extremely long-running publications such as ""The Beano"" and ""The Dandy"" published by D. C. Thomson & Co., a newspaper company based in Dundee, Scotland. ""The Dandy"" began in 1937 and ""The Beano"" in 1938. ""The Beano"" is still going today while ""The Dandy"" ceased print publication in 2012. The ""Boys' Own Paper"" lasted from 1879 to 1967. There has been a continuous tradition of black and white comics, published in a smaller page size format,"
"the 1930s. By 1950 the weekly circulation of both reached two million. Explaining the enormous popularity of comics in British popular culture during this period, Anita O'Brien, director curator at London's Cartoon Museum, states: ""When comics like the Beano and Dandy were invented back in the 1930s - and through really to the 1950s and 60s - these comics were almost the only entertainment available to children."" The ""world's naughtiest schoolboy"", ""Dennis the Menace"" was created in the 1950s, which saw sales for ""The Beano"" soar. He features in the cover of ""The Beano"", with the BBC referring to him"
"narrated by Bernard Cribbins were in regular broadcast rotation across the UK. Tufty Fluffytail, a childlike red squirrel character, was created in 1953 by Elsie Mills to introduce clear and simple safety messages to children. The success of the character led to the creation in 1961 of the Tufty Club for children under five years of age. Under its auspices more than 30,000 Tufty books about road safety were issued to parents. At its peak there were nearly 25,000 branches of the Tufty Club throughout the UK, and by the early 1970s an estimated two million children were members. The"
"Adventure Camp"" and ""Quiz Kids Funfair Adventure"". Quiz Kids (magazine) Quiz Kids (sometimes Puzzler Quiz Kids) is a children's puzzle magazine. Launched in 1987, it is the longest-running magazine of this genre. Based in the UK, each issue comprises crosswords, dot-to-dots, spot the differences, word searches, and various other challenges created for children aged 7–12. The puzzles are created specially for the magazine, in line with the guidelines of the UK's National Curriculum. ""Quiz Kids"" is published every 2nd Month. It is also published in New Zealand. The plots in ""Quiz Kids"" centre around the adventures of five main characters:"
"Quiz Kids (magazine) Quiz Kids (sometimes Puzzler Quiz Kids) is a children's puzzle magazine. Launched in 1987, it is the longest-running magazine of this genre. Based in the UK, each issue comprises crosswords, dot-to-dots, spot the differences, word searches, and various other challenges created for children aged 7–12. The puzzles are created specially for the magazine, in line with the guidelines of the UK's National Curriculum. ""Quiz Kids"" is published every 2nd Month. It is also published in New Zealand. The plots in ""Quiz Kids"" centre around the adventures of five main characters: Bee (a girl), Simon (a boy), Mutt"
"TV Comic TV Comic was a British comic book magazine published weekly from 9 November 1951 until 29 June 1984. Originally started by Beaverbrook, it was published by Polystyle Publications from 1960 and featured stories based on television series running at the time of publication. The first issue ran to eight pages, with ""Muffin the Mule"" on the front cover. It also featured many other TV favourites of the day, including ""Mr. Pastry"", ""Larry the Lamb"", ""Tom Puss"", ""Prince Valiant"" (Hal Foster reprint), ""Jack & Jill"" and ""Prudence Kitten"". In common with other British children's comics, ""TV Comic"" absorbed other,"
"in newspapers after the success in 1907 of Bud Fisher's ""Mutt and Jeff"". In Britain, the Amalgamated Press established a popular style of a sequence of images with text beneath them, including ""Illustrated Chips"" and ""Comic Cuts"". Humour strips predominated at first, and in the 1920s and 1930s strips with continuing stories in genres such as adventure and drama also became popular. Thin periodicals called comic books appeared in the 1930s, at first reprinting newspaper comic strips; by the end of the decade, original content began to dominate. The success in 1938 of ""Action Comics"" and its lead hero Superman"
"to send in the answers to receive a Von Doogan prize and to be named winner in the next issue. The Phoenix (comics) The Phoenix is a British weekly story comic for children aged 6–12, published by David Fickling Comics Ltd. The comic was launched on 7 January 2012 with a preview issue which was released in late 2011. The comic is often considered a successor to ""The DFC"": both are published by the same people and many of ""The Phoenix""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s creators had worked on ""The DFC"". Unlike other British children's comics, such as ""The Beano"" and ""The Dandy"", the"
"first published on 5 April 1915 and was the first cartoon strip in a British newspaper. It ran for over 40 years to 1960, spawning the ""Teddy Tail League"" Children's Club and many annuals from 1934 to 1942 and again from 1949 to 1962. Teddy Tail was a mouse, with friends Kitty Puss (a cat), Douglas Duck and Dr. Beetle. Teddy Tail is always shown with a knot in his tail. The ""Daily Mail Year Book"" first appeared in 1901, summarizing the news of the past year in one volume of 200 to 400 pages. Among its editors were Percy"
"public's mind of comics as somewhat juvenile. ""The Guardian"" refers to Ally Sloper as ""one of the world's first iconic cartoon characters"", and ""as famous in Victorian Britain as Dennis the Menace would be a century later."" British comics in the early 20th century typically evolved from illustrated penny dreadfuls of the Victorian era (featuring Sweeney Todd, Dick Turpin and ""Varney the Vampire""). First published in the 1830s, penny dreadfuls were ""Britain's first taste of mass-produced popular culture for the young."" The two most popular British comic books, ""The Beano"" and ""The Dandy"", were first published by DC Thomson in"
"puppet Muffin the Mule made his television debut on the show, accompanied by his ""friend"" Annette Mills. The puppet's character was devised by the puppeteer Ann Hogarth. ""For the Children"" was last broadcast in December 1952, when it was superseded by other BBC children's television programmes, including ""Watch with Mother"". For the Children For the Children was a British television programme targeted at children of school age. First broadcast on the BBC Television Service at 3 pm on Saturday 24 April 1937, for its first two years the series was ten minutes in length. Suspended in 1939 along with the"
"at the Lyceum Theatre in 1939. Traditionally performed at Christmas and afterwards, with family audiences, British pantomime continues as a popular form of theatre, incorporating song, dance, buffoonery, slapstick, cross-dressing, in-jokes, topical references, audience participation, and mild sexual innuendo. Pantomime story lines and scripts usually make no direct reference to Christmas, and are almost always based on traditional children's stories, particularly the fairy tales of Charles Perrault, Joseph Jacobs, Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm Brothers. Some of the most popular pantomime stories include ""Cinderella"", ""Aladdin"", ""Dick Whittington and His Cat"" and ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", as well"
"Teddy Tail Teddy Tail was a British newspaper comic strip about a cartoon mouse featured in ""The Daily Mail"" from 5 April 1915. It was the first ""daily"" cartoon strip in a British newspaper (being also the first to use speech balloon rather than captions), The character survived until the 1960s with several artists drawing newspaper strips and the varied annuals. Such was his popularity that other newspapers created their own cartoon characters, the Daily Express with ""Rupert Bear"" and the Daily Mirror with ""Pip, Squeak and Wilfred"". The first variant of Teddy Tail was drawn by Charles Folkard (1878–1963)"
"firm of ""A & C Black"". The partnership lasted 27 years. His next works for the firm were ""Aesop's Fables"" (1912), ""The Arabian Nights"" (1913), and ""Ottoman Wonder Tales"" (1915), a work that evokes the style of Persian manuscripts. Folkard's ""The Adventures of Teddy Tail"" was the first British daily newspaper cartoon strip and became instantly popular when it premiered in the ""Daily Mail"" on 5 April 1915. The mouse character was named after his three-year-old son Ted. The exploits of Teddy Tail and Dr. Beetle, the Penny Princess, Golliwog, Snail, and Teddy's other friends were reproduced in a series"
"Dudley, appearing in the new comic. The Magic Comic The Magic Comic was a British comics magazine. It was the ill-fated third comics magazine from DC Thomson (after ""The Beano"" and ""The Dandy""). It was aimed at a younger audience, with more emphasis on picture stories. The first issue was published on 22 July 1939. The comic ran for only 80 issues until 25 January 1941. Paper rationing resulting from the outbreak of the Second World War caused its demise. Two annuals, named ""The Magic Fun Book"", were also published in 1941 and 1942. From 1943 to 1949, ""The Magic"
"Rabbit and the March Hare. The oldest funny animal comic strip is James Swinnerton's ""The Little Bears"", which debuted in 1892. The earliest example of funny animals in a British comic strip was Arthur White's ""Jungle Jinks"" (1898-1947), which featured a group of school children, anthropomorphized as animals. The comic strip ran in Playbox, a supplement of Home Chat, for years. ""Jungle Jinks"" in particular paved the way for a whole stream of British comics about cute animal characters: ""Tiger Tim"", ""Teddy Tail"", ""Rupert Bear""... and so on. An early example of a novel which made exclusive use of funny"
"Magician Mickey Magician Mickey is a 1937 Walt Disney Mickey Mouse cartoon, originally released to theaters on February 6, 1937. Mickey puts on a magic show, but is constantly interrupted by a heckler, Donald Duck, whom he in turn tries to get his revenge on through his magic tricks. This cartoon sometimes deletes the scene where Goofy gets electrocuted when he sticks his finger in a live light socket. In the game Mickey's Magical Arts World, The cartoon appears as you can make your own character instead of Donald. When a jealous Donald Duck tries to sabotage Mickey's magic act,"
"Pansy Potter Pansy Potter The Strongman's Daughter is a British comic strip series created in 1938 by Hugh McNeill for the magazine ""The Beano"". The series appeared first in the issue dated 17 December 1938. The protagonist is Pansy Potter, a girl who has super strength. McNeill was assisted by Harry Hargreaves. During the war years, a number of different artists with their own distinct styles drew the strip, including Basil Blackaller. Around 1949 Jimmy Clark took up drawing the strip, and it was retitled as ""Pansy Potter in Wonderland"". As the name suggested, Pansy Potter no longer lived in"
"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"
"was a key influence within the form, Rudolph Dirks was inspired by the strip to create ""The Katzenjammer Kids"" in 1897. The first weekly comic to feature a regular character was ""Ally Sloper's Half Holiday"", which debuted in the British humour magazine ""Judy"" in 1867 and was created by C. H. Ross and illustrated by his French wife Emilie de Tessier. In 1884 the then highly popular character was spun off into his own comic, ""Ally Sloper's Half Holiday"" published by Dalziel Brothers, eight pages long and printed in black and white at tabloid size. The magazine was extremely popular"
"Playhour Playhour was a British children's comics magazine published between 16 October 1954 and 15 August 1987, a run of approximately 1,700 weekly issues. Originally published under the title ""Playhour Pictures"", the title was shortened with issue 32 to ""Playhour"". ""Playhour"" was intended as a companion to ""Jack and Jill"", initially aimed at a slightly older audience. The lead strip in its early days was ""Prince, the Wonder Dog of the Golden West"", drawn by Sep E. Scott. With issue 32 (21 May 1955) it lowered its target age-group and introduced comic strips based on A. A. Milne's ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" and"
"a number of other early stories, although by the end of the 1970s the stories were written in normal prose form. Others were told in captions below the illustration, or ""text comics"", as ""Playhour"" avoided the use of word balloons. ""Playhour"" contained a mixture of original tales for young children and adaptations of well-known fairy tales (drawn by Nadir Quinto, Ron Embleton, Jesus Blasco and others). Playhour Playhour was a British children's comics magazine published between 16 October 1954 and 15 August 1987, a run of approximately 1,700 weekly issues. Originally published under the title ""Playhour Pictures"", the title was"
"Father Christmas (comics) Father Christmas is a British children's picture book written and drawn by Raymond Briggs and published by Hamish Hamilton in 1973. Briggs won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named it one of the top ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite. ""Father Christmas"" presents a dramatically different modern interpretation of the character. Far from being jolly, this Father Christmas is a brusque man who"
"Pippin (comics) Pippin was a UK children's comic, published by Polystyle Publications between 1966 and 1986, featuring characters from British pre-school television programmes. Stories were generally of four or eight numbered panels, with a short sentence below each illustration (similar to ""Rupert""), although some stories did appear in prose form. Regular stories included ""The Pogles"" (whose Pippin character gave the comic its name), ""Bizzy Lizzy, Joe, The Woodentops, Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben, Camberwick Green, Trumpton"" and ""Chigley, Titch and Quackers, Toytown, Mary Mungo & Midge, The Moonbeans, Tales of the Riverbank, The Herbs, Mr Benn, Teddy Edward, Barnaby the"
"the 1930s. By 1950 the weekly circulation of both reached two million. Explaining the popularity of comics during this period, Anita O'Brien, director curator at London's Cartoon Museum, states: “When comics like the ""Beano"" and ""Dandy"" were invented back in the 1930s – and through really to the 1950s and 1960s – these comics were almost the only entertainment available to children."" In 1954 ""Tiger"" comics introduced ""Roy of the Rovers"", the hugely popular football based strip recounting the life of Roy Race and the team he played for, Melchester Rovers. The stock media phrase ""real 'Roy of the Rovers'"