Beryl the Peril fuller. She also appeared far less like Dennis the Menace and seemed far more individual as a character. She remained with the comic when "The Topper" merged with "The Beezer" in 1990. "The Beezer and Topper" was cancelled in August 1993, and Beryl joined "The Dandy" comic. Notably, she was the only Beezer and Topper character to transfer to The Dandy as soon as the former comic folded. (The following refugee, Potsworth & Co., did not make the transition until about a month later when The Dandy went full colour, and later strips to make the transition were often retooled
Billy the Cat and Katie Cat story, though he reappeared in the 2010 annual, starring "William the cat" in a Victorian setting which turns out to be the hallucination of an unconscious William Grange, on a school trip to a museum. He made a guest appearance in the 70th anniversary Beano in 2008, this time drawn in a Manga-like style by Laura Howell. Billy returned to the comic shortly after in issue 3454 (dated 18 October 2008), as a single-page strip illustrated by Barrie Appleby. Despite this, Nigel Dobbyn's version of the strip appeared in the Beano Annual 2011 . However, Dobbyn was unhappy with