After Cheeky Weekly
folded and was incorporated into Whoopee as of February 1980 six strips that had originated in the toothy funster's title survived the merge and continued
to appear in the amalgamated comic. Whoopee itself foundered in
March 1985 and was merged into Whizzer and Chips. Three of the surviving Cheeky Weekly strips successfully negotiated this
second merge and went on to appear in the newly combined publication, rather inelegantly titled 'Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee'.
The survivors were Mustapha Million, Calculator Kid and (appearing
only twice) Stage School. Cheeky continued to appear, but as a member of The Krazy Gang, who had moved into W&C when Krazy, the comic in which the Gang originated, expired in April 1978.
Whizzer and Chips had a
long tradition of sending characters from the Chips section into
Whizzer and vice versa. These cross-comic forays were known as
'raids'. In this series of posts I'm chronicling the raids involving
the ex-Cheeky Weekly characters who made the transition into Whizzer and Chips, all of whom were allocated to the
Chips section. For the purposes of this series, although this particular manifestation of the toothy funster didn't directly descend from Cheeky Weekly, I'm including Cheeky's Krazy Gang appearances as those of an 'ex-Cheeky Weekly character'.
The previous raid covered in this series occurred in Whizzer and Chips dated 04 May 1985. Just seven days later another raid was perpetrated upon an ex-Cheeky Weekly character. This time it was Cheeky (in his role as a member of The Krazy Gang) who was among the victims. Can you spot the sneaky Whizz-Kid infiltrator? Scroll down for the answer...
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| Whizzer and Chips 11 May 1985 Art: Bob Hill |
...Whizzer's resident prankster, Joker.
The current score is therefore Ex-Cheeky Weekly Raiders 1, Whizzer Raiders 2
| Whizzer and Chips Cover Date | Raider | Raided |
| 06 April 1985 | Mustapha Million | Super Steve |
| 04 May 1985 | Bloggs (Store Wars) | Mustapha Million |
| 11 May 1985 | Joker | The Krazy Gang (Cheeky) |
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