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 momentous events depicted in the raid-and-retaliatory-strike issue, Whizzer and Chips dated 05 October 1985 witnessed another daring sortie into Whizz-kid territory by an ex-Cheeky Weekly star. Can you spot the intrepid infiltrator? Scroll down to see the answer.
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Whizzer and Chips 05 October 1985
Art: Roy Mitchell |
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Not quite sure why Mustapha wasn't able to make his own
announcement, but I suppose it's an honour to have
the proclamation made by chief Chip-ite Shiner |
The image of Mustapha dangling perilously from a hot air balloon, as used in the above raid, originally appeared in Cheeky Weekly dated 10 March 1979.
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| Art: Joe McCaffrey |
This latest event brings the tally of raids perpetrated by ex-Cheeky Weekly stars to 6, while those wily Whizz-kids have struck 8 times. More raiding fun soon!
| Whizzer and Chips Cover Date |
Raider |
Raided |
| 06 April 1985 | Mustapha Million | Super Steve
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| 04 May 1985 | Bloggs (Store Wars) | Mustapha Million
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| 11 May 1985 | Joker | The Krazy Gang (Cheeky) |
| 18 May 1985 | Calculator Kid & Calc | Odd-Ball |
| 01 June 1985 |
| Animalad |
| Mustapha Million |
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| The Krazy Gang (Cheeky) |
| Boy Boss |
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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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| Calculator Kid |
| Store Wars |
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| 05 October 1985 | Mustapha Million | Animalad |
Your Mustpha Millions has been posted by facebook fan from America.he called the British Richie Rich
ReplyDelete.I put up the fact its from your blog with link..also said Reg Parlett was the best artist on this..
Thanks for passing on the link, Peter. I suppose Mustapha was our version of Richie in many ways. Reg was definitely the best Mustapha artist - I think Reg did some of his best work on the MM stories.
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