Dandy Annual 2022

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Three pictures of Korky leaning on a lamppost (he is smoking as a policeman comes, but the smoke is from a fish). Price 7/6 Three pictures of Korky eating a meal, while some mice try to jump up to a mailbox with chains wrapped around it. Price 7/- Korky is rolling a giant snowball down a hill (which has gathered up some interfering mice in it on its travels). Price 7/6

The strip Bananaman was added to the comic in 1985, after the declining Nutty comic was merged with The Dandy.

Korky the Cat in a top hat and a bow tie while smoking a cigar, as he walks down a red carpet with Desperate Dan. Price 6/- Three pictures with Korky eating a meal and in a letter box with chains wrapped around it. Price 7/- Desperate Dan - This hugely popular desperado from the Wild West become the Dandy's mascot. He was known as the world's strongest man, able to lift a cow with one hand. Three pictures of Korky in a rowing boat, using a magnet to catch fish (even though fish are not made of metal!). Price 6/6 Korky the Cat is leading the other then-current Dandy characters (with Freddy the Fly upon his baton), in a band. Price 3/-

Desperate Dan is towing a rowing boat (which is carrying the other then-current Dandy characters) with his teeth. Price 3/6The longest-running strips in the comic were Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat, both of which appeared in the very first edition. Desperate Dan, Korky the Cat, Keyhole Kate and the Bamboo Town monkeys holding up the letter "Y" of "Dandy". Price 2/6 Thanks to The Dandy and The Beano, Dundee, home of publisher DC Thomson, became known as the comic capital of Britain. Three pictures of Korky, first in a rowing boat, and then in a large umbrella after Hungry Horace sunk said boat. Price 6/6 Korky the Cat is hanging from a trapeze, and Freddy the Fearless Fly is sitting upon his tail as he swings on it. Price 2/6

This information is necessary to identify older annuals which are not dated. If an annual is dated 1940, it would have been published in August 1939. Prices are in shillings and pence with one shilling equal to 5p. Korky the Cat on skis passed by Desperate Dan, who is using logs (with other characters sitting on them) as skis. Price 6/- Three pictures of Korky in a train with four fishermen. They go through a tunnel and he has eaten all their fish. Price 6/6 Korky is about to eat a Christmas pudding, and some interfering mice are on a shelf above him trying to steal it. Price 7/6In 2006, the original 1939 Monster Comic was reprinted as a facsimile edition in a collector's slipcase. Desperate Dan, Korky the Cat, Keyhole Kate, and the Bamboo Town monkeys are holding up the letter "Y" of "Dandy". Price 2/6 All the then-current Dandy characters are taking part in a bike race, and Korky is in the lead of all the others. Price 5/- In 2006, the original 1939 Monster Comic was re-printed as a facsimile edition in a collector's slipcase. From 1938 to 1951 the annuals were called The Dandy Monster Comic. The name changed to The Dandy Book in the following year and continued, the year changing for each different annual, until the release of the 2003 book in 2002 when it was renamed "Annual".