Tricky Dicky (Topper) Tricky Dicky (Topper) Tricky Dicky was a British comic strip which debuted in the magazine "Topper" in 1977 and was drawn by John Dallas. From 1979 to 1986 he was the cover star of the comic, succeeding Danny's Tranny and preceding Beryl the Peril. The comic strip was a gag-a-day strip starring a young boy named Dicky, who plays practical jokes on people, but they usually managed to get the last laugh. From 1999 to 2000 he re-appeared as a 'Guest Star' in "The Beano", again drawn by Dallas, running against The Three Bears, Inspector Horse and Jocky and Gordon
Black Peril countries'. Along the road to that settled character white males in Rhodesia often soothed their feelings of isolation by sexual relations with black women. These sexual encounters were not usually based on mutual attraction but on coercion. As two observers have noted they were 'similar to those between masters and slaves, feudal lords and serfs,conquerors and conquered in other countries'. This side of the interracial sexual coin was the 'white peril', a term which rarely appeared in Rhodesian annals. The 'black peril' became a public issue in the settler community within South Rhodesia just after the turn of the century.