My mum & day used to buy me The Dandy Book every Christmas from 1958 until 1964. I'm not sure why they opted for The Dandy over The Beano perhaps it was because my cousins who we visited every Christmas had The Beano.
I also had the comic delivered from 1960-61. I accumulated them until we moved and I gave them away to a neighbour who was stuck in bed following an asthma attack.
The Dandy was launched in 1937 a year before The Beano but it was The Beano that became more popular over the ensuing years. I think the reason was probably down to Leo Baxendale the artist who originally drew Th