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6 unusual facts about The Dandy


Bee Movie Game

The Dandy: Collectors CD-ROM Bee Movie, is a PC CD-ROM game developed in 2007 by Expansive Media for a giveaway in an issue of the UK comic The Dandy.

Ecclefechan

"Oor Wullie" of The Sunday Post fame once got a day off school for spelling "Ecclefechan" correctly, and the Jocks and the Geordies of The Dandy once reminisced the Great Battle of Ecclefechan.

Horace series

: "Hungry Horace" is also the name of an unrelated character from the UK's Dandy, Sparky and Topper comics.

Marvo the Wonder Chicken

Marvo the Wonder Chicken is a character in the UK comic, The Dandy.

The Angry Mob

The single came with special artwork created by Dandy/Beano artist Nigel Parkinson, and features caricatures of the band with various Beano characters.

The Dandy

The contents received a major overhaul, and all the comic strips from the Xtreme era except for Desperate Dan, Bananaman and The Bogies were dropped.


Colonel Blink

This character became so popular that he was given his own comic strip in The Beezer and The Dandy

David Law

Law went on to create Beryl the Peril, a similarly anarchic female character, for the Topper in 1953, and the accident-prone soldier Corporal Clott for The Dandy in 1960.

Grandpa in My Pocket

A similar idea was used in The Dandy comic in the 1970s comic adventure strip Peter's Pocket Grandpa, which was based on an earlier prose text story called Jimmie's Pocket Grandpa which had appeared in The Dandy in the 1940s.

Nick Brennan

He started drawing for the company in 1993, drawing a revival of Peter Piper From The Dandy, revived from The Magic Comic, but looking nothing like Watkins' creation, instead sporting an elvis-like hairdo and purple Jumper.


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Barrie Appleby

However, following the Dandy's revamp in October 2004, he relinquished Cuddle Dimples to Nigel Parkinson.

Beat the World Records

In 2008 The Dandy Warhols released ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols..., the first official release on Beat The World.

Billy Whizz

At the end of that month a new permanent artist was appointed, namely Nick Brennan who had previously drawn Crazy for Daisy in The Beano, and Blinky in The Dandy.

Floris of London

Beau Brummell, the dandy of his day in the early 19th century, would discuss his current fragrances at length with Mr Floris.

Joe Jitsu

The strip, drawn by Wayne Thompson, who was also the artist for The Beanos Billy Whizz and Jak in The Dandy, was about a boy who had a black belt in Karate.

Keyhole Kate

The revived strip was drawn by Tom Paterson and Trevor Metcalfe in the Dandy, until it was finally dropped in 2007.

Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth

As documented in the film Dig!, the song is dedicated to the band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, friends/rivals of The Dandy Warhols at the time, who in turn dedicated their own track "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" to them; although frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor revealed in an interview that the song is also about his girlfriend at the time who, according to him, had become a heroin addict.

Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay

(Albert was later called "the beau d'Orsay", and was in turn father of the dandy Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count d'Orsay.) Marie Louise died giving birth to him, and Pierre (a patron of the arts like his father) began travelling Europe for consolation, gathering famous collections of paintings and sculptures.

Strange Hill

The Dandy version was a very "safe" version of Hammer Horror clichés, similar to Number 13 in The Beano or the US TV series The Munsters.

The Beano

Since the 75th Anniversary Special revamp, The Beano has now gained Andy Fanton, Stephen Waller, Dean Rankine, Garry Davies and Rick Eades all from The Dandy and the only original Beano artists that remain in the comic are David Sutherland, Laura Howell and Nigel Parkinson since Barrie Appleby, Barry Glennard, Hunt Emerson and Dave Eastbury all appear to have gone.

The Black Album/Come On Feel the Dandy Warhols

The Black Album/Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols is a 2004 double album released by American alternative band, The Dandy Warhols.

The Out Crowd

The Out Crowd was featured briefly on the DVD extras of the movie Dig! about The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre

The Out Crowd supported fellow neo-psychedelic bands Dead Meadow and The Warlocks nationally in 2004 as well as The Dandy Warhols on their 2005 North American tour.

William Thomas Moncrieff

Moncrieff's first success was at Astley’s circus with The Dandy Family an equestrian drama, and in 1820 The Lear of Private Life, with Junius Brutus Booth as hero, enjoyed a long run.

Winker

Winker Watson, a fictional character who has his own comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy