The Dandy 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
Variations in published cricket statistics loaded into the CricketArchive database and there classified as "major" or "minor" pending an overall accord with other sources about first-class status. "CricketArchive"’s "major" classification effectively stated a view that the matches concerned were first-class providing they were not single wicket, the other form of top-class cricket that was popular in the 18th century. In 2007, "Stumpsite" published its "Classification of cricket matches from 1697 to 1825", in which statistical first-class status began in 1772. Similar lists had already been published online and in the "Cricket Statistician" by the ACS. In early 2010, "CricketArchive" reorganised its classification of first-class matches