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
Long s minister Geraldine with an emphatic "succour!" Long s The long, medial, or descending s (ſ) is an archaic form of the lower case letter "s". It replaced a single "s", or the first in a double "s", at the beginning or in the middle of a word (e.g. "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "ſucceſsful" for "successful"), and in ligature form (e.g. "Tiſſick" for "Tissick"). The modern letterform is known as the "short", "terminal", or "round" s. The long "s" was derived from the old Roman cursive medial "s". When the distinction between majuscule (uppercase) and minuscule (lowercase) letter forms became established,