Desperate Dan, Dawg and Minnie the Minx at the Overgate Centre

Overgate, Dundee

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Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the now-defunct Scottish comic magazine The Dandy and became its mascot. He made his appearance in the first issue which was dated 4 December 1937, The character was created by Dudley D. Watkins, originally as an outlaw or ‘desperado’ (hence his name), but evolved into a more sympathetic type, using his strength to help the underdog.

He is apparently the world’s strongest man, able to lift a cow with one hand. The pillow of his (reinforced) bed is filled with building rubble and his beard is so tough he shaves with a blowtorch.

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Desperate Dan’s Dawg is a character that appeared alongside Dan in The Dandy comics. Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the now-defunct Scottish comic magazine The Dandy and became its mascot. He made his appearance in the first issue which was dated 4 December 1937. Desperate Dan is immortalized in Dundee, his place of ‘birth’, with an 8-ft tall bronze statue in the city center alongside his ‘Dawg’.

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Minnie the Minx, whose real name is Hermione Makepeace, is a comic strip character published in the British comic magazine The Beano. Created and originally drawn by Leo Baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 December 1953. She was created as a female counterpart for Dennis the Menace.

She is known as “The World’s Wildest Tomboy” and causes trouble by doing what she calls “minxing” to others.