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
Population of Nanjing in December of 1937 November, foreign residents of the city had constituted the International Committee, which in turn created a demilitarized zone for refugees in central Nanking called the Nanking Safety Zone. By the time of the city's fall, much of Nanking's remaining population had congregated within the safety zone. No official statistics attest to Nanking's population in December 1937. However, a variety of contemporary estimates do exist, including the views of foreign residents of Nanking such as John Rabe, statements by Western journalists, the sampling survey conducted by Lewis Smythe, and the population registration of the Japanese occupation. In December, members of the