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| Art: Frank McDiarmid |
Cheeky Weekly's 70th issue is the first with a cover entirely devoted to a comic strip – all cover
strips to date (initially What A Cheek, then Cheeky's Week....Sunday
as from the 30 September 1978 revamp issue) have consisted of a
single row of panels, sharing the front page with artwork promoting
the contents of the current issue. The usual 3-panel format is in
evidence on this week's front page despite the strip covering a
larger area. Manhole Man and Doctor Braincell are the toothy
funster's cover stooges this week.
Cheeky's diary entry
for Monday refers to the fact that Uncle Hamish has been staying chez
Cheeky for 'about three months now'. This is a reference to the
curmudgeonly Caledonian's reappearance in the 13 January 1979 issue
after a year's absence.
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid |
The Calculator Kid story takes place in a snowy Krazy Town, although there is no snow evident in the rest of this issue's Cheeky's Week strips. It's my suspicion that this week's Calculator Kid was originally intended for Cheeky Weekly's snow-themed 20 January 1979 issue. However, the CK strip in that issue was, if my theory here is correct, itself originally prepared for the lost 23 December 1978 issue. Thus the wintry CK story slated for 20 January 1979 got shunted forward to this issue.
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| Art: Terry Bave |
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid Do snails eat cake? |
Tub, the Mystery Comic's corpulent cover star, finds himself wedged in a cement mixer at the conclusion of his current adventure.
Four pages after Tub's
mixer mishap, Elephant On The Run suffers a similar predicament.
Barrie Appleby's work
graces The Burpo Special (in which the infant interviewer
interrogates Constable Chuckle) for the first and only time in the
comic's run.
As has become
customary, a Pin-Up Pal poster on the back cover brings the comic to
a conclusion. The father and son stars of Why, Dad, Why? are the
subject this week, with Dad contemplating silencing his
ever-inquisitive offspring by means of a swift knock on the noggin.
Wouldn't be allowed today.
Frank McDiarmid
delivers 9 Cheeky's Week elements in this issue, with Barrie Appleby contributing
The Burpo Special. Last week's comic was an all-Frank-McDiarmid Cheeky's Week issue, so this issue breaks the pattern of 'Frank on Cheeky's Week every other issue' which (barring a few hiccups) was established as of the 30 September 1978 revamp. For more details see here.
| Cheeky Weekly | Cover Date: 10-Mar-1979, Issue 70 of 117 |
| Page | Details |
| 1 | Cheeky's Week - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 2 | Sunday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 3 | 6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox |
| 4 | 6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox |
| 5 | 6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox |
| 6 | Monday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 7 | Calculator Kid - Art Terry Bave |
| 8 | Tease Break |
| 9 | Tuesday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 10 | Paddywack - Art Jack Clayton |
| 11 | Ad: Trebor 'Double Agents Identikit Promotion' 1 of 2 |
| 12 | Wednesday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 13 | Tub 'Mystery Comic' 19 of 34 - Art Nigel Edwards |
| 14 | Disaster Des 'Mystery Comic' 20 of 30 - Art Mike Lacey |
| 15 | Mystery Boy reprint from Whizzer and Chips 'Mystery Comic' 21 of 37 - Art John Richardson |
| 16 | Elephant On The Run 'Mystery Comic' 20 of 34 - Art Robert Nixon |
| 17 | Elephant On The Run 'Mystery Comic' 20 of 34 - Art Robert Nixon |
| 18 | Mustapha Million 'Mystery Comic' 20 of 34 - Art Joe McCaffrey |
| 19 | Mustapha Million 'Mystery Comic' 20 of 34 - Art Joe McCaffrey |
| 20 | Why, Dad, Why? 'Mystery Comic' 16 of 28 - Art John K. Geering |
| 21 | Ad: IPC 'Smurfs Poster Magazine'Ad: 'Mickey Mouse' 11 of 18 |
| 22 | Thursday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 23 | Skateboard Squad - Art Jimmy Hansen |
| 24 | Joke-Box Jury |
| 25 | Friday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 26 | Menace of the Alpha Man reprint from Shiver and Shake - Art Eric Bradbury |
| 27 | Menace of the Alpha Man reprint from Shiver and Shake - Art Eric Bradbury |
| 28 | Chit-Chat |
| 29 | The Burpo Special 'Constable Chuckle' - Art Barrie Appleby (single art on feature) |
| 30 | Saturday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 31 | Saturday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 32 | Pin-up pal 'Why Dad Why' - Art John K. Geering (single art on feature) |
Cheeky's Week Artists Cover Date 10-Mar-1979
| Artist | Elements |
| Frank McDiarmid | 9 |
| Barrie Appleby | 1 |
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