Desperate Dan and his friends will be celebrating with plenty of cow pie this week as the Dandy enters The Guinness Book of Records as the world's longest running comic.

The record-breaking 3007th issue will be out on 10 July and Desperate Dan will be headlining it for the very last time.

After that the superhuman cowboy from Cactusville, the only survivor from the comic's early days, will be relegated to the inside pages, making way for new stars such as Cuddles and Dimples.