Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the British comic The Dandy. He first appeared in its first issue, date 4 December 1937. He apparently the worlds strongest man, able to lift a cow with one hand. Even his beard is so tough he has to shave with a blowtorch.

The strip was drawn by Dudley D. Watkins until his death in 1969. Although The Dandy Annuals featured new strips from the other artists from then on, the comic continued reprinting Watkins strips until 1983.