Korky the Cat his eyes (though the picture of him next to the Dandy logo was never changed). The focus of the strip also switched more to the Kits, who had been promoted from their originally minor role. So much so, that at one point the strip had been renamed Korky the Cat and the Kits. When Nixon went into semi retirement at the beginning of 1999 (relinquishing Beryl the Peril at the same time) several different artists took up the pen, including David Sutherland (who also draws The Bash Street Kids from "The Beano", and used to draw Dennis the Menace) at
Comic Cavalcade the time. It was priced at 15 cents, when the average comic cost a dime. Many stories in "Comic Cavalcade" were scripted by other than the characters' regular writers, for deadline reasons. Batman writer Bill Finger, for example, would occasionally write Flash stories for "Comic Cavalcade" when regular Flash writer Gardner Fox was preoccupied with other projects. One non-superhero ongoing character introduced in "Comic Cavalcade" was newspaperman Johnny Peril. His roots, prior to his first appearance, came in the one-off story "Just a Story" in issue #15 (July 1946), by writer-artist Howard Purcell. With issue #22 (Sept. 1947), the anthological