Dandy Presents

Desperate Dan appeared in the very first Dandy in 1937 and remained a fixture of the comic throughout its life, becoming its cover star and signature character in 1984.A resident of Cactusville, a strange mash-up of wild western town and a modern British city where herded buffalo could be seen side by side with red pillar boxes, Desperate Dan was the strongest, and often silliest, man in the west!In 2010, Jamie Smart was offered the chance to bring Dan and his appetite for cow pies into the 21st century, and this summer special collects some of his funniest, wackiest and silliest comics in a single volume for the first time. It s a true celebration of one of the most famous British comics