The Dandy Tony Morrow, the Desperate Dan statue, which also features his dog Dawg, is the most photographed of 120 pieces of public art in the city. In July 2001 the cover of "The Dandy" featured Dan visiting Dundee and encountering his statue. In December 2012 the University of Dundee held an exhibition in partnership with D C Thomson to mark the comic's 75th anniversary. 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
The Amazing Spider-Man (comic strip) paperback which also includes the comic book version of the story. Panini Publishing UK published "The Daily Adventures of the Amazing Spider-Man" in the United Kingdom in 2007. The black-and-white trade paperback collection reprints the first two years of the newspaper strip. Marvel has published two hardcover volumes of newspaper strips, reprinting stories from 1977-1980. The first, "Spider-Man Newspaper Strips Volume 1", was published in 2009, reprinting stories by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr. "Spider-Man Newspaper Strips Volume 2" was published in 2011, reprinting stories by Lee, Romita, and Larry Lieber. In 2014, both volumes were later published in