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. However, the Krazy Gang's Whizzer and Chips run ended in the issue dated 08 February 1986.
A week after
Cheeky quietly slipped into comic history, Whizzer and Chips yet again featured a raid involving a survivor from Cheeky Weekly. Calculator Kid and Mustapha Million were by this point the only remaining representatives of the toothy funster's erstwhile comic.
Can you spot the unwelcome interloper? Scroll down, where the identity of the Whizz-kid weasel will be revealed...
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Whizzer and Chips 15 February 1986
Art: Terry Bave
Reprinted from Cheeky Weekly 28 October 1978 |
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How Lazy Bones summoned the energy to ascend to his aerial hiding place remains a mystery.
Looked at out of context, the panel into which Benny Bones has been pasted would seem to depict the result of the lethargic lad's decision to use the tree as an arboreal lavatory.
This brings to 15 the number of raids carried out on our ex Cheeky Weekly Chums, who had by this stage embarked on 8 revenge raids across the border into Whizzer.
More raiding fun soon!
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