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 and 70,000 soldiers. On December 1, 1937, following the end of the Battle of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese soldiers stationed in the vicinity of Shanghai were ordered to march inland to Nanking, the capital city of China. The opposing Chinese garrison, the Nanking Garrison Force, attempted to defend a series of encampment outside of Nanking, but ultimately could not prevent the Japanese Army from arriving at the walled city by December 9. On December 13, the Japanese Army captured Nanking and perpetrated the Nanking Massacre. The Chinese population of Nanking in December prior to the fall of