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| Art: Mike Lacey |
Front cover fave Manhole Man is on hand to set up a Saturday Night Fever gag as our toothy pal embarks on his regular paper round. Disco Kid enjoys a boogie with fowl friend, while
Snail gets a close-up.
Over the page Frank McDiarmid gives us his Sunday, where Cheeky’s paper round continues and includes a delivery to Posh Claude’s mansion.
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid |
On page 3 Calculator Kid is lacking the wherewithal to visit the flicks
as “it’s the end of the week and my pocket money’s almost
gone”, yet the previous page was Sunday so Charlie’s cash crisis
must occur on either Sunday or Monday. Now I always believed that the
first day of the week was Sunday, so was going to say that this story
actually occurs early in the week, but it seems that Monday has officially been the first day of the week for some time, so clearly
this Calculator Kid adventure occurs on Sunday and thus I withdraw my
complaint. I was also considering raising an objection to the cinema being open on a Sunday, as in the late 1970s virtually all businesses in the UK would be closed on that day of the week, but it seems cinemas were given a dispensation to allow them to open their doors on what was known by some as 'The Lord's Day' as from the late 1950s.
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| Art: Terry Bave |
Following
the cinema fun is reprint Soggy the Sea Monster, located surprisingly
(to me, anyway) near the front of the comic. I have always assumed
(possibly wrongly) that comic publishers place their most popular
strips in the early part of the comic (aside from those that required
a specific location such as the centre pages). Maybe the Soggy
reprints are proving popular - the banner above his introductory Cheeky Weekly episode indicates his Cheeky Annual outings had been well received. Soggy’s three previous Cheeky Weekly appearances
were all on page 11. Actually,
this issue was the closest the silly sea serpent got to the front of the
comic – he subsequently returned to page 11, flirted briefly with
pages 8 and 12 and finished up on page 17.
ISSUE_DATE
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Soggy the Sea Monster page
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17-NOV-79
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11
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24-NOV-79
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11
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01-DEC-79
|
11
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08-DEC-79
|
4
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15-DEC-79
|
11
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22-DEC-79
|
11
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29-DEC-79
|
8
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05-JAN-80
|
11
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12-JAN-80
|
12
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19-JAN-80
|
11
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26-JAN-80
|
12
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02-FEB-80
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17
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I don’t often show
Tub strips, mainly because it’s not one of my favourites, but here
is our clinically obese pal having a camping crisis…
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| Art: Nigel Edwards |
There’s mayoral merriment in Doomsville as Disaster Des leaves
town. But all too soon there's very little to crow about.
Following Des, on pages 13 and 14, is the front-cover-mentioned Comedy Catalogue, this week featuring the wild west witticisms of Six-Gun Sam.
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| Art: Mike Lacey |
Following Des, on pages 13 and 14, is the front-cover-mentioned Comedy Catalogue, this week featuring the wild west witticisms of Six-Gun Sam.
On Friday Goalie Cat returns to once again test Cheeky’s skill with
a tin can. The feline footballer was last seen in the 25 August 1979
edition. On this page we also witness Yikky-Boo ‘razzing’ rather
than uttering his customary exclamation.
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid |
Cheeky's Saturday is devoted to supervising a toddlers' outing to the park playground. It doesn't end well as Baby Burpo is among the youngsters in the care of the toothy funster and pals.
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| More Frank |
Snail of the Century again rounds off this issue, which features an all-Frank-McDiarmid Cheeky's Week.
| Cheeky Weekly | Cover Date: 08-Dec-1979, Issue 109 of 117 |
| Page | Details |
| 1 | Cover Feature 'Manhole Man and Disco Kid' - Art Mike Lacey |
| 2 | Sunday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 3 | Calculator Kid - Art Terry Bave |
| 4 | Soggy the Sea Monster reprint from Shiver and Shake - Art Robert Nixon |
| 5 | Monday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 6 | Stage School - Art Robert Nixon |
| 7 | Stage School - Art Robert Nixon |
| 8 | Ad: Tente (single appearance) |
| 9 | Tub - Art Nigel Edwards |
| 10 | Tuesday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 11 | Joke-Box Jury\Ad: IPC 'Whoopee' 8 of 9 |
| 12 | Disaster Des - Art Mike Lacey |
| 13 | Cheeky's Cut-Out Comedy Catalogue 'Six-Gun Sam Jokes' |
| 14 | Cheeky's Cut-Out Comedy Catalogue 'Six-Gun Sam Jokes' |
| 15 | Wednesday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 16 | Mustapha Million - Art Joe McCaffrey |
| 17 | Mustapha Million - Art Joe McCaffrey |
| 18 | The Gang reprint from Whizzer and Chips - Art Robert MacGillivray |
| 19 | The Gang reprint from Whizzer and Chips - Art Robert MacGillivray |
| 20 | Thursday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 21 | Why, Dad, Why? - Art John K. Geering |
| 22 | Ad: Peter Pan Playthings (final appearance) |
| 23 | Elephant On The Run - Art Robert Nixon |
| 24 | 6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox |
| 25 | 6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox |
| 26 | Friday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 27 | Ad: IPC 'Cor Annual' 5 of 5 Ad: 'Look and Learn' 16 of 16 |
| 28 | Speed Squad - Art Jimmy Hansen |
| 29 | Chit-Chat |
| 30 | Saturday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 31 | Saturday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 32 | Snail of the Century - Art Frank McDiarmid |
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