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'.
Eight
weeks after the humiliating events recorded here, which heroic ex-Cheeky Weekly star
embarked on an audacious revenge sortie into the pages of Whizzer? Read the following strip (including a character depiction that would be considered inappropriate today), then scroll down for the answer.
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Whizzer and Chips 18 January 1986
Art: Robert Nixon |
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I must say our ex-Cheeky chums have become rather uncouth
since rubbing shoulders with those coarse types from
Whizzer and Chips. |
Mustapha first infiltrated Steve's story when he was given the honour of making the inaugural Chip-ite raid of Whizzer and Chips' post-
Whoopee-merge era, back in
April 1985.
By this stage those wastrel Whizz-kids had mounted 12 raids on ex-Cheeky stars while our plucky pals had penetrated Whizzer on 7 occasions.
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