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'.
A week after the raid documented
here, ex-Cheeky Weekly characters were again involved in raiding activities. Mustapha Million suffered two indignities, the first being the non-appearance of the first of a series of new MM stories, which had been trailed in the 04 January 1986 issue - hence the caption at the top of the page. As well as this disappointment, our wealthy chum was unwitting host to an intruder - can you spot the interloper? Scroll down for the answer.
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Whizzer and Chips 25 January 1986
Art: Joe Joe McCaffrey |
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That rubbery rascal Odd-Ball was the nefarious gate-crasher. However, just a few pages later the smug alien sphere was targeted by a plucky ex-Cheeky chum of ours - can you spot the perpetrator of this swift retaliatory raid? The answer can be found below.
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Whizzer and Chips 25 January 1986
Art: Terry Bave | |
This brings to 13 the number of raids carried out on ex-Cheeky Weekly stars, while our pals had infiltrated the pages of Whizzer 8 times. More raiding fun soon!
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