High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Dandy was a long-running children`s comic published in the United Kingdom by D. C. Thomson & Co. The first issue was printed in December 1937, making it the world`s third-longest running comic, after Detective Comics (cover dated March 1937) and Il Giornalino (cover dated 1 October 1924). From August 2007 until October 2010, it was rebranded as Dandy Xtreme.