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The statue of Desperate Dan in Dundee City Centre. The strip was drawn by Dudley D. Watkins until his death in 1969. Although The Dandy Annuals featured new strips from other artists from then on, the comic continued reprinting Watkins strips until 1983 (though the then Korky the Cat artist Charles Grigg drew new strips for annuals and summer specials), when it was decided to start running new ...
The Dandy was a Scottish children's comic magazine published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. [3] 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).
Raggy Muffin – the Dandy Dog James Crichton 1948 1950 Humour Plum Macduff (the Highlandman who never gets enough) Bill Holroyd 1948 1952 Humour Hotcha the Hottentot Robert MacGillivray 1948 1949 Humour The Slave of the Magic Lamp Fred Sturrock 1948 1949 Prose The Croaker holds the Clue Jack Glass 1948 1949 Prose Wuzzy-Wiz, Magic is his Biz
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A 'The Very Best of Black Bob' was published in 2010, [3] and Bob re-appeared in the 2013 Dandy Annual drawn by Steve Bright in Prout's style. Jack Prout was born on 14 December 1899 and joined the Scottish publishing firm of D. C. Thomson as a staff artist on 21 June 1937.
Lord Snooty is a fictional character who stars in the British comic strip Lord Snooty and his Pals from the British comic anthology The Beano.The strip debuted in issue 1, [1] illustrated by DC Thomson artist Dudley D. Watkins, who designed and wrote Snooty's stories until 1968, but the stories would continue featuring in Beano issues until 1991, with occasional revivals and character cameos.
Dundee became the first city in Scotland to gain official city status, after Queen Victoria signed a patent announcing the transition of Dundee from a royal burgh into a city. Dundee would officially gain city status on 26 January 1889. The patent still exists and is kept in storage in the city archives. [49] Dundee Harbour, late 19th century
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