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
Think of the children of the Children" characterization. Brian M. Reed wrote in his book, "Nobody's Business" (also published that year), that the phrase was devoid of substance and could be replaced for comic effect with "How many kittens must die?" For "Reason" in 2015, journalist Brendan O'Neill wrote that Marjorie Heins' "" cited the centuries-long use by governments of the prevention of "harm to minors" as an excuse to increase censorship and control. According to O'Neill, the use of "Won't somebody please think of the children?" in contemporary culture had greatly increased and was a means of exerting moral authority with emotional blackmail.