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
The Dandy under a different title). The comic has had a number of different cover stars (comic strips appearing on the front cover), firstly Korky the Cat, who was on the cover from 1937–1984. Desperate Dan, long since the comic's most popular character, then took over the cover, a position he retained until 1999 when he was replaced as cover star by Cuddles and Dimples. However, they were not on the cover for very long and Desperate Dan had been restored to the cover by the end of 2000. The comic revealed that Cuddles and Dimples were thrown off the cover for