The Perishers appearing in the strip. Kiroy's shell was shaped like a German army helmet and also had a swastika dangling around his neck. This is a partial list of the phrases coined or made popular by the Perishers. A final, specially drawn strip appeared on the "Daily Mirror"'s comic page on Saturday 10 June 2006. The strip depicts the silhouetted figures of Maisie, Baby Grumpling, Wellington, Boot and Marlon walking down a street into the sunset. Wellington says, "Well, dear readers, it's taken almost fifty years for you to see the back of us. In sayin' goodbye we hope that you
The Perishers nails and he is thick as a plank. Maisie bears resemblance to Lucy van Pelt in Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" strip. The British actress Maisie Williams was christened Margaret but has always been known as Maisie, after the character. A toddler, possibly named after the "Baby Dumpling" character in the US comic strip "Blondie". In the early days of the strip he did not speak, because he knew that once he started he would be expected to keep talking all the time. When he finally began to speak he did so in lower-case letters. In the early days of the strip