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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 ...
Prose / Humour Adventure Drake's Drummer Boy Originally a prose story that ran from 1939 to 1940. Returned as a picture strip in 1959. Jack Glass Victor Peon 1939 1959 Prose / Adventure Little White Chief of the Cherokees Originally ran from 1939 to 1940. Reprinted from 1951 to 1952. George Ramsbottom 1939 1952 Adventure Addie and Hermy: Sam ...
Episode 13: Dandy's Birthday. Bill and Corky are excited about Dandy's birthday party, but Dandy seems unusually grumpy. Written by Kevin Nemeth; Directed by Cameron Chittock; Episode 14: Home, Sweet Home. When Mrs. Whistlehead decides to sell her farm, Bill and Corky help her look for a new place to live. Written by Sally Marchant
The Dandy Annual is the name of a book that has been published every year since 1938, to tie in with the children's comic The Dandy. As of 2023 [update] there have been 86 editions. [ 1 ] The Dandy Annual still continues to be published, even though the weekly comic ended in 2013.
In 1924 Watkins entered the Glasgow School of Art. [4] In 1925 the school principal recommended Watkins to the thriving publisher D.C. Thomson, based in Dundee.Watkins was offered a six-month employment contract with D. C. Thomson, so he moved to their Dundee base and began providing illustrations for Thomson's "Big Five" story papers for boys (Adventure, Rover, Wizard, and later Skipper and ...
Rex Box – A boy convinced he is living in a video game. Robbie on the Run – A story in the style of Oliver Twist, where a plucky young orphan boy runs away from a foster mother who is using him as "slave labour" (in reality, a perfectly ordinary and kind woman who simply asked him to help clear the table after dinner). He ends up foiling ...
Based on the 1970s The Dandy comic adventure strip Peter's Pocket Grandpa by Ron Spencer (which itself was based on an earlier prose text story called Jimmie's Pocket Grandpa which had appeared in The Dandy in the 1940s), the programme stars James Bolam as a grandfather who owns a magical "shrinking cap", which only his 10-year-old grandson ...
[5] [6] Future adventure strip character Strang the Terrible appeared in a two-part story in issue 233 before his series' debut in 240, [7] [8] and Strongarm the Axeman (from 1939) [9] also appeared in issue 445. [10] Due to the patch, stories about Watson are set during schooltime or whenever he is travelling to or from campus.