75 Years of The Dandy Exhibition

75 Years of The Dandy Exhibtion

This free exhibition celebrates the 75th birthday of the world's third-longest running comic, The Dandy, created by Dundee publishers D C Thomson.

The first issue of The Dandy was dated 4th December 1937 and it was an instant success. At its height of popularity in the early 1950s it was selling an astonishing two million copies a week.

The exhibition features original artwork from DC Thomson's collections dating back to the earliest years of the comic, much of which has never been shown in public before. All the classic favourites are here, including original Desperate Dan pages by Dudley D Watkins, Korky the Cat artwork by James Crighton and Charlie Grigg, as well as Winker Watson by Eric Roberts, Black Bob by Jack Prout and many more. Whether you're a fan of Brassneck or Bananaman, Corporal Clott or Cuddles & Dimples, you'll find them all in the Lamb Gallery!

The exhibition has been created as part of an on-going partnership between DC Thomson & Co Ltd, the University of Dundee Museum Services and the newly established Scottish Centre for Comics Studies based at the University.