The Topper (comics) The Topper (comics) The Topper was a UK comic published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd that ran from 7 February 1953 to 15 September 1990, when it merged with "The Beezer". A strip named "Mickey the Monkey" originally appeared on the front cover. In the early 1970s, it was replaced by "Send for Kelly", by "Danny's Tranny" in 1975, and "Tricky Dicky" in 1979. "Beryl the Peril" took over on 24 May 1986, and remained there until the merger with "The Beezer". Unlike most other comics at the time, which were half tabloid size, the Topper was for
Beryl Smalley Beryl Smalley Beryl Smalley, FBA (3 June 1905–6 April 1984) was a British historian and academic. She is best known for her work, "The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages", originally published around 1940, but revised many times, which laid the foundations of modern study of the Medieval popular Bible. She was a tutor in history (1943 to 1969) and Vice-Principal (1957 to 1969) of St Hilda's College, Oxford. One of her more notable pupils was the internationally respected historian on mid-Tudor England, Jennifer Loach, a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. Beryl Smalley was born 3 June