47-564: Big Eggo was a British comic strip series about an eponymous ostrich , published in the British comic magazine The Beano . He first appeared in issue 1, dated 30 July 1938, and was the first cover star. His first words in the strip were "Somebody's taken my egg again!" It was drawn throughout by Reg Carter . When creating a new comic in his "big five" series, R. D. Low wrote a newspaper advert in The Daily Telegraph for new artists. He
94-656: A Curse on the King" and "Swallowed by a Whale!" In 1963 the first Dandy summer special was published, a joint Dandy-The Beano summer special ; the first exclusively Dandy Summer Special was released the following year. In 1982 the Dandy comic libraries were released, which later became known as the Fun Size Dandy . These were small-format comics usually featuring one or two long stories starring characters from The Dandy and occasionally other DC Thomson comics. In September 1985,
141-406: A few years earlier ( "Jak" and "Dreadlock Holmes"). In August 2007 (issue 3426), The Dandy had another update, becoming the fortnightly comic-magazine hybrid Dandy Xtreme , priced at £2.50. Unlike previous incarnations, Dandy characters did not necessarily grace the cover every issue; instead, celebrities and other cartoon characters were featured; the first Dandy Xtreme had Bart Simpson on
188-463: A number of different cover stars (comic strips appearing on the front cover), firstly Korky the Cat , who was on the cover from 1937 to 1984. Desperate Dan , long since the comic's most popular character, then took over the cover, a position he retained until 1999 when he was replaced as cover star by Cuddles and Dimples . However, they were not on the cover for very long and Desperate Dan had been restored to
235-690: A pantomime, a 12-page Harry Hill strip, free gifts, and the return of some characters. More recent new strips are "Punslinger", "Dad's Turn To Cook", "My Freaky Family", "Animals Eat The Funniest Things", "Star T.Rex" and "Brian Damage". Song parodies and fake recipes also appeared in The Dandy . On 19 March 2012 the Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history, which included The Dandy among many others. A follow-up to Waverly Book's The History of The Beano: The Story So Far , called The Art and History of The Dandy ,
282-440: A radical format overhaul. The comic changed format and content, reflecting a more television-oriented style, now printed on glossy magazine paper instead of gravure . The price was raised from 70p to £1.20 (99p for the first two weeks), a new comic strip called "Office Hours" (a comic strip about the adventures of the writers of The Dandy ) appeared, and two supposedly new ones also started, though they were actually revivals from
329-673: A subtitle, for example, "Better than the Beano". During the Dandy Xtreme era the comic had no cover star, and covers were often given over to celebrities or current trends, but after the comic returned to its weekly, all-comic format in October 2010, the popular British comedian Harry Hill took over the cover spot, accompanied by Desperate Dan and Bananaman in some issues (although other characters made one-off appearances too). There were frequent fictional crossovers between Dandy characters, as most of
376-417: A surprise return to the Beano in issue 3925 in a three-panel strip for the start of a new miniseries, written and drawn by Lew Stringer , to tie in with the comic's 80th anniversary, which continued for 24 more issues until September. In one, he was joined by Blotty and 'Enry . He was also the only character from the first generation to appear on the front cover of the 2019 Beano Annual; his first story's gag
423-464: A very long time. The longest-running strips are Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat , who both appeared in the first issue. Following mergers with Nutty and Hoot , the Dandy inherited a number of their strips, most notably Bananaman from Nutty and Cuddles from Hoot, who teamed up with a Dandy character to form a new strip entitled Cuddles and Dimples . Both have been quite long-running, having been in
470-471: 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 title continues as a yearly Summer Special and
517-415: A zoo and a penguin hatched out and another was about a monkey stealing his egg and replacing it with a crocodile egg. Other stories would have him in a wacky situation, such as eating an alarm clock which alerts a fire station he walks past, or another where Eggo is caught in a hot air balloon after trying to stop a goat from eating the anchor rope. In some stories, he was also a zookeeper , and there were
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#1732858536369564-697: Is therefore most likely that Struthionidae originated in Asia. The earliest fossils of the genus Struthio are from the early Miocene ~21 million years ago of Namibia in Africa, so it is proposed that genus is of African origin. By the middle to late Miocene (5–13 mya) they had spread to and become widespread across Eurasia. While the relationship of the African fossil species is comparatively straightforward, many Asian species of ostrich have been described from fragmentary remains, and their interrelationships and how they relate to
611-579: The Dandy since the 1980s and each having appeared on the front cover of both The Dandy and the comics from which they originated. After the closure of The Beezer and The Topper , The Dandy inherited some of its strips as well, including Beryl the Peril , Puss 'n' Boots (who had been in Sparky before being moved to The Topper ) and Owen Goal (who appeared in Nutty under a different title). The comic has had
658-572: 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
705-727: The Sahel , both north and south of the equatorial forest zone. The Somali ostrich occurs in the Horn of Africa , having evolved isolated from the common ostrich by the geographic barrier of the East African Rift . In some areas, the common ostrich's Masai subspecies occurs alongside the Somali ostrich, but they are kept from interbreeding by behavioral and ecological differences. The Arabian ostriches in Asia Minor and Arabia were hunted to extinction by
752-646: The Somali ostrich , native to the Horn of Africa . They are the heaviest and largest living birds, with adult common ostriches weighing anywhere between 63.5 and 145 kilograms and laying the largest eggs of any living land animal. With the ability to run at 70 km/h (43.5 mph), they are the fastest birds on land. They are farmed worldwide, with significant industries in the Philippines and in Namibia . South Africa produces about 70% of global ostrich products, with
799-745: The Struthioniformes , a group of paleognath birds which first appeared during the Early Eocene , and includes a variety of flightless forms which were present across the Northern Hemisphere (Europe, Asia and North America) during the Eocene epoch. The closest relatives of Struthionidae within the Struthioniformes are the Ergilornithidae , known from the late Eocene to early Pliocene of Asia. It
846-460: The African ostriches are confusing. In India, Mongolia and China , ostriches are known to have become extinct only around, or even after, the end of the last ice age ; images of ostriches have been found prehistoric Chinese pottery and petroglyphs . Today, ostriches are only found natively in the wild in Africa , where they occur in a range of open arid and semi-arid habitats such as savannas and
893-402: The Cat, who appeared in the comic's first issue in 1937, made a return drawn by Phil Corbett . Korky's strip was changed from 1–2 pages to 3 panels, to make way for new comics. Many new celebrity spoofs such as Cheryl's Mole became a feature, but other new strips included Pre-Skool Prime Minister and George vs Dragon, drawn by Jamie Smart and Andy Fanton . The 76-page Christmas special featured
940-509: The Menace . The sudden disappearance of the stories was due to the death of Carter in April 1949, which was not revealed until 2008, although rumours surfaced weeks before that readers had fallen out of love with the character because he was a bird, not a mammal , and therefore did not relate to the audience, unlike Biffo, a bear. George Drysdale took over as artist for the strips after Carter's death until
987-526: The Ostrich, but eventual editor George Moonie suggested the name should be changed to Big Eggo . The ostrich became the first front cover star of the comic until he was replaced in 1948 by Biffo the Bear . The majority of Eggo's tales were about him looking for an egg he had misplaced, which would lead to a situation in which he would either discover that the egg was not an ostrich egg; in one story, he stole an egg from
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#17328585363691034-465: The ailing Nutty was merged with The Dandy , bringing with it the Bananaman strip. Just over a year later, the short-lived Hoot was also merged with The Dandy , most notably incorporating the character Cuddles into the pre-existing comic strip Dimples to form Cuddles and Dimples , another of The Dandy' s longest running comic strips. After issue 3282 (dated 16 October 2004) The Dandy underwent
1081-504: The characters lived in the fictional Dandytown, just as the characters in The Beano were portrayed as living in Beanotown. Many of the comic strips in The Beano are drawn by the same artists, and crossovers between the two comics occur occasionally. Quite often, one comic would make a tongue-in-cheek jibe at the other (e.g. a character meeting an elderly lady and stating that she's "older than
1128-649: The city is now home to the Scottish Centre for Comic Studies. The connection is also marked by bronze statues of Desperate Dan and The Beano character Minnie the Minx installed in the city's High Street in 2001. Designed by Tony Morrow, the Desperate Dan statue, which also features his dog Dawg, is the most photographed of 120 pieces of public art in the city. In July 2001 the cover of The Dandy featured Dan visiting Dundee and encountering his statue. In December 2012
1175-502: The comic was for the 2000th issue celebration at the top of the cover of the first Beano reprinted on the back page, saying "Ah! The good old days!". A one-off strip called Lord Snooty's Day Out drawn by Ken H. Harrison reveals that he is living in the Beano Retirement Home, along with Jonah , Lord Snooty and Jack Flash . Two years later, Eggo would meet Gnasher and Gnipper for the 65th anniversary. In 2006, Big Eggo
1222-489: The cover by the end of 2000. The comic revealed that Cuddles and Dimples were thrown off the cover for "being too naughty", though in reality the comic's readers wanted Dan to return as the cover strip. In 2004, following a major revamp, Desperate Dan was replaced on the front cover by Jak , a character created for the cover, slightly based on an older strip with the same name, although other characters, including Dan, also made occasional cover appearances. The front cover also had
1269-477: The cover. The Dandy Xtreme had a theme for each issue, usually a film or TV show. From 27 October 2010 (issue 3508) The Dandy returned as a weekly comic and dropped "Xtreme" from its title. 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. Bananaman was also taken over by a new artist, Wayne Thompson , and Korky
1316-417: The embassy. The game was given a great deal of advance publicity in the comics, with story lines often revolving around how each of the characters acquired his or her vehicle. Thanks to The Dandy , The Beano and other D C Thomson comics which followed, Dundee gained a reputation as a major centre of the comics industry, and has been called the 'comic capital of Britain'. Partly as a result of this legacy,
1363-454: The end of the 1940s. Big Eggo , like many Beano strips, dedicated stories to encouraging young readers to help with the war effort, such as recycling paper; one story was about Big Eggo, bothered by flies, creating fly paper out of sheets covered in glue after he accidentally knocks the recycling into some glue baths. He would continue to have stories until 1949, and his front-cover masthead appearances would drop in 1954, being replaced by Dennis
1410-435: The genus Pachystruthio in 2019. Several additional fossil forms are ichnotaxa (that is, classified according to the organism's trace fossils such as footprints rather than its body) and their association with those described from distinctive bones is contentious and in need of revision pending more good material. The species are: The Dandy The Dandy was a Scottish children's comic magazine published by
1457-410: The industry largely centered around the town of Oudtshoorn . Ostrich leather is a lucrative commodity, and the large feathers are used as plumes for the decoration of ceremonial headgear. Ostrich eggs and meat have been used by humans for millennia. Ostrich oil is another product that is made using ostrich fat. Ostriches are of the genus Struthio in the order Struthioniformes , part of
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1504-594: The infra-class Palaeognathae , a diverse group of flightless birds also known as ratites that includes the emus , rheas , cassowaries , kiwis and the extinct elephant birds and moas . The common ostrich was historically native to the Arabian Peninsula , and ostriches were present across Asia as far east as China and Mongolia during the Late Pleistocene and possibly into the Holocene . The genus Struthio
1551-480: The jokes in The Beano "). In the strips, it was expressed that Dandytown and Beanotown are rivals, The Dandy did a drastic format change when Dandytown had an embassy in Beanotown, which many of the town's citizens unsuccessfully attempted to overrun – the embassy was never referred to in The Beano . This rivalry inspired the spin-off computer game Beanotown Racing , in which various characters from both comics could be raced around points in Beanotown, including
1598-434: The magazine changed its name to The Dandy. One of those involved in the comic in its early days was George Thomson , who served as deputy editor, and briefly - when aged 18 - as editor. Thomson would later serve as a cabinet minister under Harold Wilson and as European Commissioner . In 1938, less than a year after the comic's debut, the first Dandy Annual was released. Originally called The Dandy Monster comic, this
1645-500: The middle of the 20th century, and in Israel attempts to introduce North African ostriches to fill their ecological role have failed. Escaped common ostriches in Australia have established feral populations. In 2008, S. linxiaensis was transferred to the genus Orientornis . Three additional species, S. pannonicus , S. dmanisensis , and S. transcaucasicus , were transferred to
1692-399: The series' conclusion. On the 7th March 2018 Big Eggo returned, illustrated by Lew Stringer, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Beano. These comics where shorter, being 3 or 4 panels long. The strip ran throughout the year and finished when the anniversary was over. Big Eggo would begin to reappear sporadically after the character left the masthead. The next time Eggo made a cameo in
1739-485: The stories in which he would be acting anthropromorphic , such as dog sledding , shopping, or walking pigs on a lead as if they were his pets. When Biffo the Bear took over as the cover star, Big Eggo would appear on the front cover's masthead , but would appear inside The Beano with the other comics, such as Lord Snooty and Pansy Potter . In World War II , rationing forced comics to stop being published too frequently; The Beano would publish fortnightly until
1786-408: The transition to digital alongside a re-imagined version of "Keyhole Kate" – transformed from nosey parker into a schoolgirl sleuth – a new take on former "Beezer" characters "The Numskulls", and a superhero team consisting of revamped versions of former D.C. Thomson action stars – including The Dandy's (and the U.K.'s) first ever superhero, "The Amazing Mr X" – in adventure serial "Retro-Active". This
1833-515: The unbroken run of Dandy Annuals, up to and including the 2024 annual. The first issue, under the name The Dandy Comic , was published on 4 December 1937. The most notable difference between this and other comics of the day was the use of speech balloons instead of captions under the frame . It was published weekly until 6 September 1941, when wartime paper shortages forced it to change to fortnightly, alternating with The Beano . It returned to weekly publication on 30 July 1949. From 17 July 1950
1880-569: Was Albert Barnes, who according to The Legend of Desperate Dan (1997) was the model for Dan's famous chin. Barnes remained in the role until 1982, when he was succeeded by Dave Torrie. His replacement, Morris Heggie, left the editorship in 2006 to become the DC Thomson archivist. The final editor of the print edition was Craig Graham. The editor of the digital version launched in 2012 was Craig Ferguson. Over its 75-year run hundreds of different comic strips have appeared in The Dandy , many of them for
1927-592: Was an annual bumper edition of the comic and has been released annually since then. In 1954 the first Desperate Dan Book was released, mostly consisting of reprints. Another was released in 1978, and it was released yearly between 1990 and 1992. Bananaman and Black Bob also had their own annuals. Although later issues were all comic strips, early issues had many text strips, with some illustrations. In 1940, this meant 12 pages of comic strips and 8 pages of text stories. Text stories at two pages each were "Jimmy's Pocket Grandpa", "British Boys and Girls Go West", "There's
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1974-553: Was certain that his new character would be a black-and-white animal which would stand out in a colourful world; an idea he similarly used for Korky the Cat in The Dandy . Reg Carter (who had originally published Mickey Mouse comics throughout the 1930s) responded in January 1938 with a few ideas and sketches. Carter and Low's eventual idea would be an ostrich that misplaced his eggs. In an exchange of letters, they planned to name him Oswald
2021-405: Was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The genus was used by Linnaeus and other early taxonomists to include the emu , rhea , and cassowary , until they each were placed in their own genera. The Somali ostrich ( Struthio molybdophanes ) has recently become recognized as a separate species by most authorities, while others are still reviewing the evidence. Struthionidae is a member of
2068-404: Was quite controversial among most Dandy fans as comparisons were made that the print edition was better and the digital one could be quite unreliable. DC Thomson decided to axe the comic as it didn't ultimately attract the publicity and customers that the company initially wanted. It ended on 26 June 2013, although annuals and occasional summer specials continue to be published. The original editor
2115-455: Was re-enacted on the back cover with Gnasher handing Walter a crocodile egg that hatches with the baby biting Walter's bottom. He appeared in the inner cover artwork with 254 other characters from The Beano's history and was in the time-travelling comic feature "Doctor Whoops!" Ostrich Ostriches are large flightless birds . Two living species are recognised, the common ostrich , native to large areas of sub-Saharan Africa , and
2162-576: Was released in August 2012, the Dandy's 75th anniversary year. A Waverly book about The Dandy was originally to be released in 2007 for the comic's 70th birthday, but was cancelled with no explanation. The last print edition of the Dandy, a 100-page edition featuring a countdown of the comic's "Top 75 Characters", was published on 4 December 2012. However, The Dandy continued online and in the Dandy App, with long-running characters like "Desperate Dan", "Bananaman", "Blinky", "Sneaker" and "Hyde & Shriek" making
2209-463: Was used as a villain for a feature-length Bash Street Kids story illustrated and written by Kev F. Sutherland . The story featured him and other discontinued Beano characters wanting to revert the magazine back to when they were popular, but the Class 2B accidentally thwart the plan with the help of The Dandy 's Keyhole Kate accidentally building a robot with the brain of Jonah . He also made
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