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
Long s 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, toward the end of the eighth