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.
5 weeks after perpetrating a raid on Odd-Ball, Mustapha was once again subject to the unwanted intrusion of a sneaky Whizz-kid. Can you spot the interloper? Scroll down to see the culprit revealed...
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Whizzer and Chips 17 January 1987
Art: Barry Glennard |
Yes, it's the Whizz-kid head honcho himself, Sid, on a solo raid without his serpentine sidekick, Slippy. Sid's smug 'I made a mug of Mustapha Million' is becoming somewhat hackneyed now, having been used by various raiders on three previous occasions that our moneyed mate has suffered raids, namely
06 December 1986,
18 October 1986 and
28 June 1986.
More raiding fun soon!
Slippy is under the beans!
ReplyDeleteAh, that's where he's bean.
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