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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Adam Aspinall

Rare first edition of The Dandy sells for over £4,000 at auction

A rare first edition of the classic comic The Dandy has sold for over £4,000.

There are just 25 copies of The Dandy No1 in existence today after it was first published in December 1937.

The Dandy, that featured the adventures of Desperate Dan, was the first-ever British publication to use comic strips to illustrate and tell a story with the aid of speech bubbles.

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