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
Tried in the Furnace Tried in the Furnace "Tried in the Furnace" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. It was published in the UK in "The Strand Magazine" in September 1935, and in the US in "Cosmopolitan" in March 1937. It was included in the British edition of the 1936 collection "Young Men in Spats". The story introduces the recurring character Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps and features Pongo Twistleton. In the story, Barmy falls in love with a girl named Angelica Briscoe, a parson's daughter, but comes into conflict with his friend Pongo when he discovers that Pongo has also fallen