The Dandy role until 1982, when he was succeeded by Dave Torrie. His replacement, Morris Heggie, left the editorship in 2006 to become the DC Thomson archivist. The final editor of the print edition was Craig Graham. The editor of the digital version launched in 2012 was Craig Ferguson. Over its 75-year run hundreds of different comic strips have appeared in "The Dandy", many of them for a very long time. The longest-running strips are Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat, who both appeared in the first issue. Following mergers with "Nutty" and "Hoot", the Dandy inherited a number of their strips,
Beryl Ingham here again". Beryl replied "Why don't you piss off, you horrible little man?" She continued to manage George's career until she contracted leukemia, and died on Christmas Eve 1960 in Blackpool. After her death, Formby publicly confessed that "My life with Beryl was hell". He died ten weeks after his wife. Beryl Ingham Beryl Ingham (1901 – 24 December 1960) was the wife and manager of singer/actor George Formby, as well as being a variety performer and champion clogdancer. She was born in Haslingden, Lancashire, the youngest daughter of John James Ingham and his wife Elizabeth Ann née Jackson. At