The Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd

D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd

D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy and Commando comics...

. The first issue was printed in 1937 and it is the world's third longest running comic, after Detective Comics

Detective Comics

Detective Comics is an American comic book series published monthly by DC Comics since 1937, best known for introducing the iconic superhero Batman in Detective Comics #27 . It is, along with Action Comics, the book that launched with the debut of Superman, one of the medium's signature series, and...

(cover dated March 1937) and Il Giornalino

Il Giornalino

Il Giornalino was an Italian comics magazine published by the Catholic publisher Edizioni San Paolo of Alba, founded in 1924.During its history, the magazine published the Italian translation of numerous American and European comics series, such as Looney Tunes, The Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Popeye,...

(cover dated 1 October 1924). From August 2007 until October 2010, it was rebranded as Dandy Xtreme.
The first issue, under the name The Dandy Comic, was published on 4 December 1937.