If the Beano and Dandy comics were the A-team then the Beezer and Topper were the very creditable B-team. I was more a Beano boy myself but liked a bit of Beryl the Peril. The mischievous girl appears several times here in this 1980 edition of the Topper annual, along with a number of other characters i either did not know or had forgotten about (and some of them its just as well).
However, some characters new to me were great such as Nick Kelly and Cedric, a pair of bungling detectives. Piggy Banks, a walking pig who eats money and the gigantic dog Tiny maybe were more surreal than funny but a good read.
The annual overall is a bit patchy, and should be filed under "interesting" than "hilarious".
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