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. Calculator Kid survived a little longer, his run of reprints coming to an end in the 26 July 1986 edition and leaving Mustapha Million as the sole Cheeky Weekly survivor.
A week after raiding Joker, Mustapha Million himself fell victim to a retaliatory strike by one of the prankster's Whizz-Kid compatriots. Can you spot the intruder? Answer below.
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Whizzer and Chips 23 August 1986
Art: Barry Glennard |
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Yes, it's Sweet Tooth. But did the sweet-scoffing scoundrel, clearly heading towards the nearest confectioner to satisfy his sugar addiction, nick some moolah off our middle eastern chum?
This is the ninth time that Mustapha has been raided, and the second occasion on which Sweet Tooth has been the interloper in our ex-Cheeky Weekly chum's pages (see
here for the earlier incident).
The score at this point is; raids into Whizzer by our ex-Cheeky Weekly chums = 11, raids suffered by our pals = 21.
More raiding fun soon!
It took me awhile to spot this time it blended in well...
ReplyDeleteThat Sweet Tooth - he's really sneaky.
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