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.
Well, this is something we haven't seen in a while - Mustapha is the raider rather than the victim in Whizzer and Chips dated 25 April 1987. But can you spot him on his daring sortie into dangerous (at least as the story commences) Whizzer territory?
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Art: Terry Bave
I like the tiger's GROWL and its
expression in the final panel |
Our middle-eastern mate had previously raided Odd-Ball in the
13 December 1986 edition, having earlier been the victim of the rubbery rapscallion in the
19 October 1985,
25 January 1986 and
14 February 1987 issues.
Not so easy to spot...
ReplyDeleteMustapha waited until the tiger was safely caged before he turned up (not sure how secure a rubber cage would be, but anyway...)
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