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Throughout the 1970s and ‘80s, there were stories of teenage heroes with catlike agility, who teamed up to solve crimes, of a hooded avenger who was the scourge of the underworld, of a scientific genius in a remarkable aircraft who fought master criminals. And, from legends came tales of a mysterious girl with otherworldly powers who appeared whenever danger struck.

You asked for it, and here it is! Keep an eye on http://www.dandy.com tomorrow evening for the highly anticipated release of ISSUE ONE!! What's been your favourite part of issue zero?

Morris Heggie: Did you get both The Dandy and The Beano?
HeyUGuys: I did. And the Beezer, and the Topper, and then the Beezer & Topper. I was a complete fiend.
You would be a Tom Patterson fan?
He did Calamity James?
One of the things that we’re pleased about with the digital Dandy, is we’ve got Tom Patterson out of retirement. Tom had self-imposed exile, given up his drawings, but we’ve persuaded him to come back to digital Dandy, and he’s working on a storyline called ‘Castle Bleugh’, which is the usual, DC Thomson’s nonsense, drawn by a crazy artist. You will see it.

But with the new format, will you be exploring any of that?
With the new format, if you look at – not even going to the adult books, I’ll tell you about that in a minute – you know the likes of Moshi Monsters, that has this massive selling comic on the go. The comic came from a very successful website, web comic, and then back to print. That’s a very interesting concept that the Dandy could come right round and come back to print. If we’re successful enough. One of the things we can do, with the marvels of print-on-demand, and the fact that we have this site, is we could look at collections, individual collections of characters. That would be, I would say, an adult market for sure.
Right at this minute we’re in the middle of a major, major scanning initiative, basically to scan every comic we have. We’re working on The Dandy and The Beano at the moment, but we’ll do them all. That then leaves us open to print on demand a collection. I can’t say a definite, but I think that would be one of the ways you could monetise a digital comic.

Peter Gray wrote:

Right at this minute we’re in the middle of a major, major scanning initiative, basically to scan every comic we have...That then leaves us open to print on demand a collection