Desperate Dan, Korky the Cat, Keyhole Kate and the Bamboo Town monkeys holding up the letter "Y" of "Dandy". Price 2/6 Desperate Dan is towing a rowing boat (which is carrying the other then-current Dandy characters) with his teeth. Price 3/6 The editor of The Dandy from its inception right up until 1982 was Albert Barnes, whose chin was said to the inspiration for Desperate Dan's chisel-jawed good looks. Korky the Cat and other then-current Dandy characters are displayed in stars (and the Bellboy is aiming at them). Price 6/- Three pictures of Korky in a train with some fishermen. They go through a tunnel and he has eaten their fish. Price 6/6

Thanks to The Dandy and The Beano, Dundee, home of publisher DC Thomson, became known as the comic capital of Britain. In 2006, the original 1939 Monster Comic was reprinted as a facsimile edition in a collector's slipcase. The longest-running strips in the comic were Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat, both of which appeared in the very first edition.The strip Bananaman was added to the comic in 1985, after the declining Nutty comic was merged with The Dandy. 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 - The feline who thought he was a human appeared on The Dandy's front cover virtually continuously for 47 years, from 1937 to 1984. From 1938 to 1951 the annual was called The Dandy Monster Comic. The name changed to The Dandy Book in 1952 and continued, the year changing for each subsequent annual, until the release of the 2003 book in 2002 when it was renamed The Dandy Annual. Despite the comic's relaunch as Dandy Xtreme in 2007, the annual was still known as The Dandy Annual. This is likely because the annuals of the time were mostly made up of Dandy Comix, due to the topical nature of the magazine's Xtreme content. Desperate Dan, Korky the Cat, Keyhole Kate, and the Bamboo Town monkeys are holding up the letter "Y" of "Dandy". Price 2/6Korky is about to eat a Christmas pudding, and some interfering mice are on a shelf above him trying to steal it. Price 7/6 Four pictures of Korky stealing a fish which he then hides under a large red top hat (that he wears on his head). Price 6/-