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| Art: Frank McDiarmid |
Swiftly following
bandage badinage with Bump-Bump Bernie, our toothy pal has his 19th front cover
encounter with Manhole Man (in what is the final Cheeky's
Week...Sunday cover strip - more on that later).
Dick Millington takes
up the Cheeky's Week pen from Frank McDiarmid as Sunday continues on page 2, where the toothy funster
informs readers that he's looking forward to Saturday, the occasion of the Vicar's countryside ramble.
Despite the mounting excitement over the forthcoming rural excursion, Cheeky makes sure he's home and in front of the TV in time to watch the latest episode of 6 Million Dollar Gran. This week our favourite aged automaton enters a modern-day jousting contest. The reference
to the synthetic senior citizen's 'bionic wrist muscles' as Gran parries her opponent's mighty sword stroke demonstrates the writer has again forgotten that Gran is a robot, as was clearly established in the first issue.
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| Art: Ian Knox |
On Monday the forthcoming ramble is still preoccupying the youth of Krazy Town, and if you've ever wondered what Dick Millington's version of Calculator Kid would look like, direct your eyes to the final panel...
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| Art: Dick Millington |
This week's Star Guest, on page 11, is Chelsmsditch's rival to Gran, Supermum, paying a visit from Whoopee.
On Wednesday Gunga Jim provides
Cheeky with this week's Mystery Comic, retrieving the fabled funny paper from within his turban. In the latest edition we learn what befalls the unwise tax officials who decide to pursue the moolah owed by Des' disastrous family.
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| Art: Mike Lacey |
There's a full
complement of Mystery Comic features this week (although Elephant On The Run has been reduced to a single page due to the presence of an
ad for The Stickits), which is pleasing since this is the final issue
to feature the Mystery Comic as a conceptual grouping of strips in the centre pages. Let's enjoy the episode of Why, Dad,Why? given the honour of bringing this last edition of the perplexing publication to
a conclusion.
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| Art: John Geering |
Returning to Cheeky's
Week on Thursday, there's evidence of adjustment to the final panel,
wherein a Frank McDiarmid rendition of the toothy funster has been
substituted for Dick Millington's art. The spectacle of Uncle Hamish
travelling at high velocity in the penultimate frame leads me to
suspect the original final panel contained the intro to Speed Squad,
who are absent this week, possibly bumped by an advert.
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| Art: Dick Millington |
Pages 26 and 27 are
host to the final instalment of Menace of The Alpha Man. The masked
marauder's true identity is revealed, but Cheeky Weekly readers who submitted entries for the associated competition following the final clue in the comic dated 16 June 1979 will have to
wait until the winners are named 'in a few weeks'.
Cheeky's message on the
Chit-Chat page carries the first intimation of changes in the
offing...
...and the toothy
funster and slimy sidekick further tantalise readers on page 29...
Saturday's
much-anticipated ramble is enjoyed by all, and after the exertion
Cheeky is in need of a sustaining plate of his mum's finest fish and
chips. Snail, ever conscious of comic sales, take the opportunity to
raise the excitement regarding next week's comic.
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| Art: Dick Millington |
The Burpo Special,
whose subject this week is substandard sleuth Sherlock, brings the
comic to a conclusion, and also closes another chapter in Cheeky Weekly's history as the comic prepares to undergo another revamp next week.
Frank McDiarmid provides only the cover strip this time, with Dick Millington delivering 8 Cheeky's Week elements and Mike Lacey furnishing the
Burpo Special. Clearing space for the forthcoming changes, the following strips
come to an end this week as mentioned above;
Cheeky's Week...Sunday
Menace of the Alpha Man
The Burpo Special
...and the Mystery Comic
section also concludes, although all the strips that had been contained within its pages will continue, freed from being grouped
about the centre of the comic.
See you back here next
issue for our first sampling of Cheeky Weekly's 'New Look'!
| Cheeky Weekly | Cover Date: 30-Jun-1979, Issue 86 of 117 |
| Page | Details |
| 1 | Cheeky's Week (final appearance) - Art Frank McDiarmid (final art on feature) |
| 2 | Sunday - Art Dick Millington |
| 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 Dick Millington |
| 7 | Calculator Kid - Art Terry Bave |
| 8 | Ad: WH Smith |
| 9 | Tuesday - Art Dick Millington |
| 10 | Paddywack - Art Jack Clayton |
| 11 | Star Guest 'Supermum' - Art Dicky Howett (single art on feature) |
| 12 | Wednesday - Art Dick Millington |
| 13 | Tub 'Mystery Comic' 34 of 34 - Art Nigel Edwards |
| 14 | Mustapha Million 'Mystery Comic' 34 of 34 - Art Joe McCaffrey |
| 15 | Mustapha Million 'Mystery Comic' 34 of 34 - Art Joe McCaffrey |
| 16 | Elephant On The Run 'Mystery Comic' 34 of 34 - Art Robert Nixon |
| 17 | Disaster Des 'Mystery Comic' 30 of 30 - Art Mike Lacey |
| 18 | Mystery Boy reprint from Whizzer and Chips 'Mystery Comic' 37 of 37 - Art John Richardson |
| 19 | Ad: The Stickits (final appearance) |
| 20 | Why, Dad, Why? 'Mystery Comic' 28 of 28 - Art John K. Geering |
| 21 | Ad: IPC 'Cheeky Summer Special' 5 of 6 Ad: 'Whizzer and Chips Summer Special' 2 of 3 |
| 22 | Ad: Action Man (first appearance) |
| 23 | Thursday - Art Dick Millington |
| 24 | Joke-Box Jury |
| 25 | Friday - Art Dick Millington |
| 26 | Menace of the Alpha Man (final appearance) reprint from Shiver and Shake - Art Eric Bradbury (final art on feature) |
| 27 | Menace of the Alpha Man (final appearance) reprint from Shiver and Shake - Art Eric Bradbury (final art on feature) |
| 28 | Chit-Chat |
| 29 | Ad: North Pacific Flyers\Ad: IPC 'Cheeky Weekly: New look next week' |
| 30 | Saturday - Art Dick Millington |
| 31 | Saturday - Art Dick Millington |
| 32 | The Burpo Special (final appearance) 'Sherlock' - Art Mike Lacey (final art on feature) |
Cheeky's Week Artists Cover Date 30-Jun-1979
| Artist | Elements |
| Dick Millington | 8 |
| Frank McDiarmid | 1 |
| Mike Lacey | 1 |
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