New readers start here... 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'.
Three weeks after the toothy funster staged a seaside raid on Sid and his serpentine sidekick, other Cheeky Weekly alumni were involved in raiding activities, and this time there was an immediate retaliatory strike.
A Calculator Kid reprint (seeing the light again almost exactly 6 years after its original publication) was besmirched by a rotten raider - can you spot the miscreant? Scroll down, where the interloper will reveal himself...
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| Whizzer and Chips 14 September 1985 Art: Terry Bave Reprinted from Cheeky Weekly 15 September 1979 |
In the above story, clearly written in response to public concern over the high rate of birthday cake thefts in the late 1970s, Odd-Ball cunningly avoided a nasty surprise from Charlie's bicycle pump by arriving at the party pre-inflated.
However, there wasn't just one raid perpetrated that week. Can you identify the heroic ex-Cheeky Weekly star exacting revenge in the Store Wars strip? Answer below...
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| Whizzer and Chips14 September 1985 Art: Jim Watson |
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| Woah, there's no need for that, Charlie |
Yes, plucky Charlie refused to be cowed by the unbidden intrusion of the alien sphere, and in a retaliation to make all friends of Cheeky proud, he took the fight right to the heart of Whizz-kid territory.
There's obviously some sort of feud developing between Calculator Kid and Odd-Ball, as Charlie and his electronic chum raided the rubbery red rascal in the 18 May 1985 issue, while this week's is the second raid Odd-Ball has carried out on Charlie and Calc.
This is also the second time that erstwhile Cheeky Weekly stars have suffered and perpetrated raids in a single W&C issue (although it is the first time the same star has been the instigator and victim in a single edition).
The latest double raid brings the total incursions carried out by ex-Cheeky folk to 5, while the Whizz-kids have notched up 8. Watch out for the next raid soon!
| 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) | ||||
| 18 May 1985 | Calculator Kid & Calc | Odd-Ball | ||||
| 01 June 1985 |
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| 08 June 1985 | Odd-Ball | Calculator Kid | ||||
| 06 July 1985 | Toy Boy | Calculator Kid | ||||
| 13 July 1985 | Pa Bumpkin | The Krazy Gang (Cheeky) | ||||
| 27 July 1985 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||
| 24 August 1985 | Cheeky | Sid's Snake | ||||
| 14 September 1985 |
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