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.
By
the time of the next raid involving one of our ex-Cheeky Weekly chums, Mustapha Million's run of reprints had ceased, and new
adventures of the middle-eastern moneybags were being drawn by Barry
Glennard. But can you spot the intruder (or maybe there's more than
one) in this story? Scroll down, where all will be revealed.
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Whizzer and Chips 05 April 1986
Art: Barry Glennard |
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| Whizzer and Chips 12 April 1986 |
Yes Mustapha, always entirely comfortable with his wealth, was subjected to a multi-panel raid by the Bumpkin Billionaires, who strove vainly every week to jettison their unwelcome fortune and return to 'the simple loife'. Maybe the affluent agriculturalists were hoping to stash their cash in amongst the wads of moolah sloshing around in Mustapha Mansion.
Just in case you didn't spot all of them, the raiders can be found in page 1, panel 6 and page 2, panels 3 and 6.
This is the first time that the Bumpkins en masse have staged a raid on our plucky pals -
Pa raided Cheeky (as part of The Krazy Gang) in the 13 July 1985 issue.
By this stage the Cheeky survivors had suffered 17 raids but had perpetrated 9. More raiding fun soon!
There was something disconcerting about the Bumpkins making mock of Mustapha, who'd been their Whoopee colleague for five years until just one year before this issue. Oh the divisiveness of W&C's rival-based set-up!
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