Charles Grigg Charles Grigg Charles Grigg (23 November 1916 – 4 December 2013) was a British comic artist for DC Thomson. He was the artist of "The Dandy" cover strip "Korky the Cat". He also did Desperate Dan after the original artist, Dudley Watkins, died. In "The Topper" comic he drew "Splodge", "Willy Nilly", "Foxy" and "Shorty Shambles". Grigg swiftly became the definitive "Korky the Cat" artist when he took over the artistic duties from James Crighton on the cover of The Dandy in the early 1960s. Immediately making Korky a friendlier looking figure, his covers for the weekly, and the Dandy
The Planet of Peril The Planet of Peril The Planet of Peril, later republished as Planet of Peril, is a 1929 science fiction novel by Otis Adelbert Kline. Originally serialized in six parts in Argosy All-Story Weekly during the summer of 1929, it was published in hardcover later that year by A. C. McClurg and reissued in a lower-price edition by Grosset & Dunlap. It was revived in 1961 as an Avalon Books hardcover and saw its only mass market paperback edition from Ace Books in 1963. The later editions, well after Kline's death, were revised and shortened. "Planet of Peril" is the first