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.
Our middle-eastern moneyed mate was unmolested for 7 weeks following the unwanted attentions of Odd-Ball in Whizzer and Chips dated 14 February 1987, but this blissful state of freedom from Whizz-kid interference came to an end in the 11 April 1987 edition. Can you spot the furtive infiltrator? Scroll down where all will be revealed.
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Whizzer and Chips 11 April 1987
Art: Barry Glennard |
Oo-ar!, it be the rich-but-hating-it head of the Bumpkin household, Pa, who in the above story seems to be smuggling some of his cash into Mustapha's mansion, no doubt hoping to lose it amongst the piles of moolah already in there. The phrase 'I made a mug of Mustapha Million' (even in its Yokelese variant) is now getting annoying. STOP IT!
More (hopefully mug-free) raiding fun soon!
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