What is The Dandy?
{{more citations needed|date=November 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox comic book title | caption = Front page of first issue | schedule = Weekly* (some issues were out longer than a week) | format = [[Comics anthology]] | genre = Children's, humour | ongoing= y | publisher = [[D. C. Thomson & Co.]] | date = 4 December 1937 – 4 December 2012 (physical), <br> 4 December 2012 – 6 June 2013 (online), <br> 1938 - present (as a yearly [[The Dandy Annual|annual]] and summer special | artists = [[Nigel Parkinson]]<br/>Lew Stringer<br/> [[Charles Grigg|Charlie Grigg]]<br/>Wayne Thompson<br/>Stu Munro<br/>Paul Palmer<br/>Wilbur Dawbarn<br/>Nigel Auchterlounie<br/>[[Jamie Smart]]<br/>Karl Dixon<br/>Nik Holmes<br/>Phil Corbett<br/>Alexander Matthews<br/>Duncan Scott<br/>Stephen Waller<br/>[[Andy Fanton]] | pencillers = | inkers = | colorists = | editors= Albert Barnes<br/>[[George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth|George Morgan Thomson]]<br/>Dave Torrie<br/>Morris Heggie<br/>Craig Graham<br/>Craig Ferguson | creative_team_month = | creative_team_year = | creators = |subcat=DC Thomson Comics |sort=Dandy }} '''''The Dandy''''' was a Scottish children's [[comic book|comic]] magazine 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 the UK, 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 sales slumped to 8,000 a week. On the same day, ''The Dandy'' relaunched as an online comic, The Digital Dandy, appearing on the Dandy website and in the Dandy App. The digital relaunch was not successful and the comic ended just six months later. The Dandy titl