David Law character was actually created first. Law's "Dennis" was a juvenile anti-hero, uncontrollable and destructive, drawn in spontaneous, edgy lines, and was an immediate hit; the strip eventually displaced "Biffo the Bear" on the comic's full colour front cover in 1974. Law went on to create "Beryl the Peril", a similarly anarchic female character, for the "Topper" in 1953, and the accident-prone soldier "Corporal Clott" for "The Dandy" in 1960. He was taken ill in 1970, and his strips were taken over by other artists, including David Sutherland on "Dennis the Menace" and John Dallas on "Beryl the Peril". Law returned
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