Over on his (sadly approaching its end) blog, Lew Stringer is examining the 1979 festive issue of Cheeky Weekly.
UPDATE - I should have mentioned that Lew's other blog will be continuing.
Saturday, 21 December 2019
Friday, 20 December 2019
Krazy Kristmas Kountdown part 2
In the first part of our quick flick through the pages of Krazy dated 18 December 1976 in search of Cheeky's contributions, we didn't encounter any festive material. However, delving deeper into the comic the impending celebrations become more apparent, as on page 19 the forthcoming Krazy Christmas Number is given a plug ('number' being a rather archaic, even for the 1970s, comics way of referring to what today we would call an 'issue').
There is no Krazy Gang strip in this number issue, the gang probably having been bumped due to the presence of part 3 of the Krazy 1977 Diary. However fans of Cheeky's comic colleagues needn't be too upset as they do appear in the toothy funster's story this week (one of the aspects of Krazy that made it such a great comic was the regular crossing of characters from one feature to another - Cheeky had already done so in this issue as we saw in the previous post). Things start to get really Christmassy as the toothy funster is ejected onto the snowy streets of Krazy Town, and there's further crossing-over of characters as Cheeky meets Stumbly Fumbly, son of Detective Fumbly, whose Casebook was the subject of a weekly text feature in Krazy. Accident-prone Stumbly was a variation on Bump-Bump Bernie, who by this time had appeared once, in Krazy dated 31 October 1976.
The Gang, including Cheeky who is wearing the same rather fetching red and white sweater he modelled on the cover, are also featured in the Krazy News Pound reader participation feature. Printing the gags in coloured ink is possibly not the best choice for legibility.
That concludes Cheeky's contributions to this issue. Hap-pee Christmas pals!
There is no Krazy Gang strip in this
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid The bottom left panel is the payoff to the gag set up on the page shown above. Note background pee gag |
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| Snail wasn't appearing every week yet - this is his third appearance. Note possible background pee gag in panel 7 (in what manner was Willie Cook's name inscribed in the snow?) Note foreground pee gag |
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| Frank renders a rather muscular Sporty |
The Gang, including Cheeky who is wearing the same rather fetching red and white sweater he modelled on the cover, are also featured in the Krazy News Pound reader participation feature. Printing the gags in coloured ink is possibly not the best choice for legibility.
That concludes Cheeky's contributions to this issue. Hap-pee Christmas pals!
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Krazy Kristmas Kountdown part 1
This time last year I examined Cheeky's contributions to Krazy's first Christmas edition, appropriately dated 25 December 1976. This time I'm looking back a week earlier to see what our toothy pal was up to as the inhabitants of Krazy Town geared up for the impending festivities.
Cheeky gets to appear on the cover, sporting a snazzy red and white jumper instead of his usual red and black ensemble, tasked with publicising the Custard Pie Corner reader participation feature. Swiftly turning the pages in order to avoid being splatted by the incoming sloppy confection, we find the grinning gagster making an uncharacteristically joke-free guest appearance in the 12½ p Buytonic Boy adventure. As the story starts, the titular Steve Ford is happily collecting Christmas trees for the members of the Krazy Gang, yet soon the energy-boosting effect of the tonic he purchased in the first episode of this series (as depicted in the title panel for the benefit of latecomers to the strip who may be puzzling over the 'buytonic' reference) seems to be wearing off...
Although he appears to have made a full recovery, the reason for Steve's sudden lassitude is not addressed.
In the aforementioned Custard Pie Corner, there are a couple of political pastings as Home Secretary Merlyn Rees and former Prime Minister Harold Wilson both cop a custardy facefull, along with kangaroo impersonator (apparently) and crooner Max Bygraves.
I'll be further delving into Cheeky's 1976 pre-Christmas capers soon.
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| Art: Mike Lacey |
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Although he appears to have made a full recovery, the reason for Steve's sudden lassitude is not addressed.
In the aforementioned Custard Pie Corner, there are a couple of political pastings as Home Secretary Merlyn Rees and former Prime Minister Harold Wilson both cop a custardy facefull, along with kangaroo impersonator (apparently) and crooner Max Bygraves.
I'll be further delving into Cheeky's 1976 pre-Christmas capers soon.
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
Whizzer and Chips - The Cheeky Raids part 50
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.
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| Art: Terry Bave, whose Tarman of the Jungle began inside. Terry also gives us his rendition of Watford Gapp, Joker and Sweeny Toddler with canine companion Hairy Henry |
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Whizzer and Chips moratorium on new raids, imposed at the end of July
1988, was lifted in the issue dated 12 August 1989 (a week after our toothy pal had been the infiltrator in a reprinted raid). During the suspension of the raids Sid
and Shiner’s individual weekly strips had been abandoned in favour
of a centre-pages confrontation of the two faction leaders, entitled Sid vs Shiner, and the
Chip-ites and Whizz-kids letters had also been moved into adjacent
pages titled Sid’s Whizz-kids vs Shiner’s Chip-ites.
However the former arrangement was restored in the 12 August 1989 issue, with the Chip-ite and Whizz-kid letter pages dispersed back into their individual titles and Sid and Shiner once again allocated their own strips.
However the former arrangement was restored in the 12 August 1989 issue, with the Chip-ite and Whizz-kid letter pages dispersed back into their individual titles and Sid and Shiner once again allocated their own strips.
Mustapha Million continued to appear, almost 12 years after his Cheeky Weekly debut, drawn at this time by Frank McDiarmid, who
had also begun illustrating a new strip, Cosmic Cafe, as from the
edition dated 13 May 1989.
Maybe the raids were reinstated in response to reader requests. The announcement of the first raid of the new run differed from those documented earlier in this series of posts, in that there was only one raid perpetrated (in the raids I've covered previously a Whizz-kid character raided a Chip-ite, and vice versa, in each issue), and additionally the raid was announced in the comic in which the raid was undertaken (previously the raiders were revealed a week later), although the identity of the interloper and victim were not revealed. Readers were aware that a raid was in progress due to Sid's disgruntled announcement...
The raider was stetson-sporting JR, who had slyly slipped into the Bumpkin Billionaires story. Since neither are Cheeky-related I won't be featuring that here, but I thought I'd include Frank McDiarmid's Cosmic Cafe from the same issue. Set in a galactic greasy spoon caff, this strip was a lot of fun and allowed Frank's imagination to run wild with the various alien customer designs. I like the depiction of the black hole, and it's always good to see a 'Boilk!' (the traditional comics way of indicating digestive distress). Robotic chef MNX (oh yes), who gets referred to incorrectly as MINX in his first namecheck this issue, seems on this occasion to be a hi-tech version of Auntie Daisy.
More raiding fun soon!
Maybe the raids were reinstated in response to reader requests. The announcement of the first raid of the new run differed from those documented earlier in this series of posts, in that there was only one raid perpetrated (in the raids I've covered previously a Whizz-kid character raided a Chip-ite, and vice versa, in each issue), and additionally the raid was announced in the comic in which the raid was undertaken (previously the raiders were revealed a week later), although the identity of the interloper and victim were not revealed. Readers were aware that a raid was in progress due to Sid's disgruntled announcement...
The raider was stetson-sporting JR, who had slyly slipped into the Bumpkin Billionaires story. Since neither are Cheeky-related I won't be featuring that here, but I thought I'd include Frank McDiarmid's Cosmic Cafe from the same issue. Set in a galactic greasy spoon caff, this strip was a lot of fun and allowed Frank's imagination to run wild with the various alien customer designs. I like the depiction of the black hole, and it's always good to see a 'Boilk!' (the traditional comics way of indicating digestive distress). Robotic chef MNX (oh yes), who gets referred to incorrectly as MINX in his first namecheck this issue, seems on this occasion to be a hi-tech version of Auntie Daisy.
More raiding fun soon!
| Whizzer and Chips Cover Date | Raider | Raided | ||||||
| 06 April 1985 | Mustapha Million | Super Steve | ||||||
| 04 May 1985 | Bloggs (Store Wars) | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 11 May 1985 | Joker | The Krazy Gang (Cheeky) | ||||||
| 18 May 1985 | Calculator Kid & Calc | Odd-Ball | ||||||
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| 08 June 1985 | Odd-Ball | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 06 July 1985 | Toy Boy | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 13 July 1985 | Pa Bumpkin | The Krazy Gang (Cheeky) | ||||||
| 27 July 1985 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 24 August 1985 | Cheeky | Sid's Snake | ||||||
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| 05 October 1985 | Mustapha Million | Animalad | ||||||
| 19 October 1985 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
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| 18 January 1986 | Mustapha Million | Super Steve | ||||||
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| 08 February 1986 The Krazy Gang ends this issue | Animalad | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 15 February 1986 | Lazy Bones | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 15 March 1986 | Odd-Ball | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 29 March 1986 | Calculator Kid | Master P Brain | ||||||
| 05 April 1986 | Bumpkin Billionaires | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 12 April 1986 | Animalad | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 31 May 1986 | Lazy Bones | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 07 June 1986 | Mustapha Million | Joker | ||||||
| 28 June 1986 | Sweet Tooth | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 26 July 1986 Calculator Kid ends this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | ||||||
| 16 August 1986 | Mustapha Million | Joker | ||||||
| 23 August 1986 | Sweet Tooth | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 18 October 1986 | Winnie the Royal Nag | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 06 December 1986 | Toy Boy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 13 December 1986 | Mustapha Million | Odd-Ball | ||||||
| 17 January 1987 | Sid | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 14 February 1987 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 11 April 1987 | Pa Bumpkin | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 25 April 1987 | Mustapha Million | Odd-Ball | ||||||
| 20 June 1987 | Toy Boy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 27 June 1987 | Mustapha Million | Memory Banks | ||||||
| 25 July 1987 | Lazy Bones | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 22 August 1987 | Winnie the Royal Nag | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 12 September 1987 | Mustapha Million | Sweet Tooth | ||||||
| 19 September 1987 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 24 October 1987 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 12 December 1987 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 13 February 1988 | Bloggs (Store Wars) | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 20 February 1988 | Mustapha Million | Joker | ||||||
| 12 March 1988 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 23 April 1988 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 28 May 1988 Readers asked not to let their Whizz-kid or Chip-ite sympathies colour their favourite strip votes | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | ||||||
| 11 June 1988 | Slippy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 16 July 1988 | Toy Boy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 30 July 1988 New raids halted | ||||||||
| 05 August 1989 (raid reprinted from 25 Aug 1984) | Cheeky | Store Wars | ||||||
| 12 August 1989 Resumption of new raids | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue |
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
The Whoopee Years - Cheeky - Roundup
Having completed my series of posts documenting Cheeky's Whoopee (with and without exclamation) career, I thought I'd do another post summarising the various Cheeky vehicles of that period.
Cheeky comic, What a Cheek, It's Cheeky, Cheeky Film Productions, Cheeky Movie Masterpiece and Cheeky's Easter
Commencing with the first merged issue of Whoopee! and Cheeky and for the following 29 issues, all the Cheeky Weekly survivors were confined to a Cheeky comic occupying the central 16 pages in each edition. During this run our toothy pal featured in a strip entitled What a Cheek, which appeared 28 times during the existence of the comic-within-a-comic. What a Cheek was something of an aperitif, since the grinning lad with more than his share of teeth would each week occupy several more pages within the Cheeky section, initially under the title It's Cheeky. Having appeared for 5 weeks (its brief run probably intended to introduce Cheeky and pals to Whoopee! readers), the 4-pages-a-week-except-for-one-3-pager It's Cheeky was replaced by the toothy funster's next vehicle, the 3-page Cheeky Film Productions. This was the first of a series of film spoofs, although the series was retitled the next week, becoming Cheeky's Movie Masterpiece, each of which spanned 4 pages. However, the 12 April 1980 edition carried a 4-page feature entitled Cheeky's Easter in place of the film spoof.
The final Cheeky comic appeared in the issue dated 04 October 1980.
Cheeky (initial run)
Following the abandonment of the Cheeky comic and the dropping of both What a Cheek and the Movie Masterpieces, the grinning gagster launched into a new, eponymous series. The 4-page-a-week 'Cheeky' strip ran from the issue dated 11 October 1980 to that dated 05 September 1981, so the final 4 'Cheeky' strips of this initial run appeared after the comic's reversion from Whoopee! and Cheeky to Whoopee!
During the above run Cheeky also appeared in a selection of cut-out Valentine Cards, his own Special Crossword and made a foray into Sweeny Toddler
Cheeky’s Week, Cheeky’s Pal and Tee-Hee TV News
The 12 September 1981 Whoopee! saw our toothy pal's weekly allocation of pages halved from 4 to 2. His new centre-spread consisted of the 3 strips named in the above heading, and additionally but less directly linked to the jerseyed japester, an untitled gag section and a strip starring his slithering sidekick entitled, rather unimaginatively, Cheeky's Snail - neither of these strips included our grinning chum, and he featured in only 6 episodes of Cheeky's Pal. This arrangement of strips across the centre pages lasted until the issue dated 02 January 1982, after which Cheeky's Week (a title which had previously been used in Cheeky Weekly) continued on its own for 3 issues, coming to an end in Whoopee! dated 23 January 1982.
During the above run Cheeky (or at least his grinning fizzog) appeared in the second instalment of Terry Bave's How to Draw Comic Strips Book Two in the 10 October 1981 edition.
Cheeky Diary 1982
The 4-part, cut-out 1982 Cheeky Diary began in the 09 January 1982 edition and came to an end in that dated 23 January 1982 (the same edition in which the final Cheeky's Week appeared).
It's Cheeky (second run)
The title It's Cheeky, which was used in the first merged issue of Whoopee! and Cheeky and for the subsequent 4 editions, was revived in the 30 January 1982 comic. However, unlike its previous, 4-page-a-week run, this series of It's Cheeky was reduced to one page per week. The second It's Cheeky run spanned 16 issues, coming to an end in Whoopee! dated 15 May 1982.
Cheeky (second run)
Cheeky's strip was again renamed as of the 22 May 1982 edition, once again reverting to a title used earlier in the toothy funster's sojourn in the pages of Whoopee! The second run of 'Cheeky' consisted of single-page stories (except for 25 December 1982's 'Cheeky's Christmas Crackers' which, rather than the usual story, contained a single illustration depicting the titular tittermeister and pals enjoying a festive slap up feed while exchanging yuletide gags) until Whoopee took on board the survivors from Wow! in the comic dated 02 July 1983. From that issue on Cheeky's strip was reduced to a single row of panels, although the feature retained the 'Cheeky' title. The newly-combined comic continued to style itself Whoopee and Wow! until the issue dated 23 February 1985 following which, as preparations were made for yet another merge (this time it was Whoopee itself that was to be absorbed), the final 5 issues were titled Whoopee. The 'Cheeky' strip appeared in the final Whoopee, dated 30 March 1985, but sadly our toothy pal wasn't among the Whoopee crew selected for transfer to Whizzer and Chips (although he did of course continue to appear there as a member of The Krazy Gang until 08 February 1986).
During the final run of the 'Cheeky' feature, the grinning gagster also fetched up in Quizmaster, E.T.Challenge and TV Quiz Kids. UPDATE 11 March 2020 - I forgot our toothy pal also appeared when the Whoopee editor admitted a faux pas regarding the E.T. Challenge closing date.
Having said I wanted to summarise the Cheeky strips of the post-merge-with-Whoopee period, I thought I'd also include a full list of our grinning pal's appearances. Please note the table below includes all the Cheeky's Pal strips, although Cheeky only appeared in those dedicated to Dr Braincell, Baker's Boy, Jogging Jeremy, Ursula, Louise and Constable Chuckle.
Cheeky comic, What a Cheek, It's Cheeky, Cheeky Film Productions, Cheeky Movie Masterpiece and Cheeky's Easter
Commencing with the first merged issue of Whoopee! and Cheeky and for the following 29 issues, all the Cheeky Weekly survivors were confined to a Cheeky comic occupying the central 16 pages in each edition. During this run our toothy pal featured in a strip entitled What a Cheek, which appeared 28 times during the existence of the comic-within-a-comic. What a Cheek was something of an aperitif, since the grinning lad with more than his share of teeth would each week occupy several more pages within the Cheeky section, initially under the title It's Cheeky. Having appeared for 5 weeks (its brief run probably intended to introduce Cheeky and pals to Whoopee! readers), the 4-pages-a-week-except-for-one-3-pager It's Cheeky was replaced by the toothy funster's next vehicle, the 3-page Cheeky Film Productions. This was the first of a series of film spoofs, although the series was retitled the next week, becoming Cheeky's Movie Masterpiece, each of which spanned 4 pages. However, the 12 April 1980 edition carried a 4-page feature entitled Cheeky's Easter in place of the film spoof.
The final Cheeky comic appeared in the issue dated 04 October 1980.
Cheeky (initial run)
Following the abandonment of the Cheeky comic and the dropping of both What a Cheek and the Movie Masterpieces, the grinning gagster launched into a new, eponymous series. The 4-page-a-week 'Cheeky' strip ran from the issue dated 11 October 1980 to that dated 05 September 1981, so the final 4 'Cheeky' strips of this initial run appeared after the comic's reversion from Whoopee! and Cheeky to Whoopee!
During the above run Cheeky also appeared in a selection of cut-out Valentine Cards, his own Special Crossword and made a foray into Sweeny Toddler
Cheeky’s Week, Cheeky’s Pal and Tee-Hee TV News
The 12 September 1981 Whoopee! saw our toothy pal's weekly allocation of pages halved from 4 to 2. His new centre-spread consisted of the 3 strips named in the above heading, and additionally but less directly linked to the jerseyed japester, an untitled gag section and a strip starring his slithering sidekick entitled, rather unimaginatively, Cheeky's Snail - neither of these strips included our grinning chum, and he featured in only 6 episodes of Cheeky's Pal. This arrangement of strips across the centre pages lasted until the issue dated 02 January 1982, after which Cheeky's Week (a title which had previously been used in Cheeky Weekly) continued on its own for 3 issues, coming to an end in Whoopee! dated 23 January 1982.
During the above run Cheeky (or at least his grinning fizzog) appeared in the second instalment of Terry Bave's How to Draw Comic Strips Book Two in the 10 October 1981 edition.
Cheeky Diary 1982
The 4-part, cut-out 1982 Cheeky Diary began in the 09 January 1982 edition and came to an end in that dated 23 January 1982 (the same edition in which the final Cheeky's Week appeared).
It's Cheeky (second run)
The title It's Cheeky, which was used in the first merged issue of Whoopee! and Cheeky and for the subsequent 4 editions, was revived in the 30 January 1982 comic. However, unlike its previous, 4-page-a-week run, this series of It's Cheeky was reduced to one page per week. The second It's Cheeky run spanned 16 issues, coming to an end in Whoopee! dated 15 May 1982.
Cheeky (second run)
Cheeky's strip was again renamed as of the 22 May 1982 edition, once again reverting to a title used earlier in the toothy funster's sojourn in the pages of Whoopee! The second run of 'Cheeky' consisted of single-page stories (except for 25 December 1982's 'Cheeky's Christmas Crackers' which, rather than the usual story, contained a single illustration depicting the titular tittermeister and pals enjoying a festive slap up feed while exchanging yuletide gags) until Whoopee took on board the survivors from Wow! in the comic dated 02 July 1983. From that issue on Cheeky's strip was reduced to a single row of panels, although the feature retained the 'Cheeky' title. The newly-combined comic continued to style itself Whoopee and Wow! until the issue dated 23 February 1985 following which, as preparations were made for yet another merge (this time it was Whoopee itself that was to be absorbed), the final 5 issues were titled Whoopee. The 'Cheeky' strip appeared in the final Whoopee, dated 30 March 1985, but sadly our toothy pal wasn't among the Whoopee crew selected for transfer to Whizzer and Chips (although he did of course continue to appear there as a member of The Krazy Gang until 08 February 1986).
During the final run of the 'Cheeky' feature, the grinning gagster also fetched up in Quizmaster, E.T.Challenge and TV Quiz Kids. UPDATE 11 March 2020 - I forgot our toothy pal also appeared when the Whoopee editor admitted a faux pas regarding the E.T. Challenge closing date.
Having said I wanted to summarise the Cheeky strips of the post-merge-with-Whoopee period, I thought I'd also include a full list of our grinning pal's appearances. Please note the table below includes all the Cheeky's Pal strips, although Cheeky only appeared in those dedicated to Dr Braincell, Baker's Boy, Jogging Jeremy, Ursula, Louise and Constable Chuckle.
| Comic Title | Date | Feature | Page Type | Total Elements |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 09-Feb-1980 | Cover Feature - FriscoDisco DJ Units to be won and Cheeky 16 page comic inside | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 09-Feb-1980 | It's Cheeky | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 16-Feb-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 16-Feb-1980 | It's Cheeky | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 23-Feb-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 23-Feb-1980 | It's Cheeky | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 01-Mar-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 01-Mar-1980 | It's Cheeky | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 08-Mar-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 08-Mar-1980 | It's Cheeky | Cheeky Section | 3 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 15-Mar-1980 | Cheeky Film Productions - Bungles in the Jungle | Cheeky Section | 3 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 22-Mar-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 22-Mar-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Cave Raves | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 29-Mar-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 29-Mar-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - The Space Between Your Ears | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 05-Apr-1980 | Cover Feature - My Full-Of-Fun Cheeky Comic is Inside | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 05-Apr-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 05-Apr-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - King of the Castle | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 12-Apr-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 12-Apr-1980 | Cheeky's Easter | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 19-Apr-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 19-Apr-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Fooling all Cops | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 26-Apr-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 26-Apr-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Ho-Ho Seven to the Rescue | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 03-May-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 03-May-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Monster from the Deep | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 10-May-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 10-May-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - The Big Shot | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 14-Jun-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 14-Jun-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Escape | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 28-Jun-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 28-Jun-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - The Castle Caper | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 05-Jul-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 05-Jul-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Planet of the Japes | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 12-Jul-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 12-Jul-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Necks Please | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 19-Jul-1980 | Cover Feature - Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 19-Jul-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 19-Jul-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Dr Doodle-Little | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 26-Jul-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 26-Jul-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Alfred-The-Not-Too-Bad | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 02-Aug-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 02-Aug-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Racing Stars | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 09-Aug-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 09-Aug-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Robinson Ho-Ho | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 16-Aug-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 16-Aug-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Taking A Dive | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 23-Aug-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 23-Aug-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - The Sand Castle | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 30-Aug-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 30-Aug-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Mobs Rule OK | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 06-Sep-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 06-Sep-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Young Dick Turnip | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 13-Sep-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 13-Sep-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Goodbye Sailor | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 20-Sep-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 20-Sep-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Gulliver's Troubles | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 27-Sep-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 27-Sep-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - Beware of the Jellymen | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 04-Oct-1980 | What a Cheek | Cheeky Section | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 04-Oct-1980 | Cheeky Movie Masterpiece - M*A*T*H | Cheeky Section | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 11-Oct-1980 | Cheeky - Get Your Skates On | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 18-Oct-1980 | Cheeky - Rush For School | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 25-Oct-1980 | Cheeky - Is This Your Life | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 01-Nov-1980 | Cheeky - The Paper Round | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 08-Nov-1980 | Cheeky - Charity | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 15-Nov-1980 | Cheeky - The Joke-Contest | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 22-Nov-1980 | Cheeky - Up For The Cup | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 29-Nov-1980 | Cheeky - Watch The Birdie | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 06-Dec-1980 | Cheeky - The Numbers Game | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 13-Dec-1980 | Cheeky - A Day At The Market | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 20-Dec-1980 | Cheeky - The Sports Report | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 27-Dec-1980 | Cheeky - Cheeky's Christmas Crackers | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 03-Jan-1981 | Cheeky - Cheeky's New Year | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 10-Jan-1981 | Cheeky - Only Dreaming | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 17-Jan-1981 | Cheeky - Off The Rails | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 24-Jan-1981 | Cheeky - Inventions | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 31-Jan-1981 | Cheeky - Out In The Cold | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 07-Feb-1981 | Cheeky - Service With A Smile | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 14-Feb-1981 | Cheeky - First With The News | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 14-Feb-1981 | Cheeky Valentine Cards | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 21-Feb-1981 | Cheeky - The Haunted House | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 28-Feb-1981 | Sweeny Toddler - including Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 28-Feb-1981 | Cheeky - Gone Shopping | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 07-Mar-1981 | Cheeky - A Day In The Garden | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 14-Mar-1981 | Cheeky - Delivery Boy | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 21-Mar-1981 | Cheeky - On The Move | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 28-Mar-1981 | Cheeky - A Laugh On The Ocean Wave | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 04-Apr-1981 | Cheeky - Animal Antics | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 11-Apr-1981 | Cheeky - Model Mania | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 18-Apr-1981 | Cheeky - Going For The Record | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 25-Apr-1981 | Cheeky - Easter Eggstravaganza | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 02-May-1981 | Cheeky - Look Out Libby's About | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 09-May-1981 | Cheeky - Raisin A Laugh | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 16-May-1981 | Cheeky - Late For School | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 23-May-1981 | Cheeky - Wakey-Wakey | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 30-May-1981 | Cheeky - Stuck For Words | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 06-Jun-1981 | Cheeky - The Big Yawn | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 13-Jun-1981 | Cheeky - The Tower Of Fun | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 13-Jun-1981 | Cheeky's Special Crossword | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 20-Jun-1981 | Cheeky - Choo-Choo Chuckles | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 27-Jun-1981 | Cheeky - Jumping For Joy | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 04-Jul-1981 | Cheeky - First Class Fun | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 11-Jul-1981 | Cheeky - A Site For Sore Eyes | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 18-Jul-1981 | Cheeky - Funny Feathers | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! and Cheeky | 25-Jul-1981 | Cheeky - The Laughter Tower | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! | 01-Aug-1981 | Cheeky - The Obstacle Race | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! | 08-Aug-1981 | Cheeky - Wanted | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! | 15-Aug-1981 | Cheeky - Clown Court | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! | 22-Aug-1981 | Cheeky - Laughs in Store | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! | 29-Aug-1981 | Cheeky - A Splashing Time | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! | 05-Sep-1981 | Cheeky - All Change | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! | 12-Sep-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 12-Sep-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Gloomy Glad | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 19-Sep-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 19-Sep-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Auntie Daisy | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 26-Sep-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 26-Sep-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Doctor Braincell | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 03-Oct-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 03-Oct-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Bump-Bump Bernie | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 10-Oct-1981 | How To Draw Comic Strips book two - including Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 10-Oct-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 10-Oct-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Posh Claude | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 17-Oct-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 17-Oct-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Baker's Boy | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 24-Oct-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 24-Oct-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Manhole Man | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 31-Oct-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 31-Oct-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Teacher | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 07-Nov-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 07-Nov-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Jogging Jeremy | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 14-Nov-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 14-Nov-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Lily Pop | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 21-Nov-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 21-Nov-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Knock-Knock Door | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 28-Nov-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 28-Nov-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Ursula | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 05-Dec-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 05-Dec-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Louise | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 12-Dec-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 12-Dec-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Constable Chuckle | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 19-Dec-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 19-Dec-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Herman | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 26-Dec-1981 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 26-Dec-1981 | Cheeky's Pal - Santa | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 02-Jan-1982 | Cover Feature - Dial-A-Design Competition - Fantastic New Story...Teacher's Pets - Cheeky Diary 1982 Part 1 | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 02-Jan-1982 | Cheeky Diary 1982 | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! | 02-Jan-1982 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 2 |
| Whoopee! | 02-Jan-1982 | Our Resoltions by Cheeky's Pals | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 09-Jan-1982 | Cheeky Diary 1982 Instructions | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 09-Jan-1982 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 09-Jan-1982 | Cheeky Diary 1982 | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! | 16-Jan-1982 | Cheeky Diary 1982 Instructions | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 16-Jan-1982 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 16-Jan-1982 | Cheeky Diary 1982 | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! | 23-Jan-1982 | Cheeky Diary 1982 Instructions | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 23-Jan-1982 | Cheeky's Week | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 23-Jan-1982 | Cheeky Diary 1982 | Normal | 4 |
| Whoopee! | 30-Jan-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 06-Feb-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 13-Feb-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 20-Feb-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 27-Feb-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 06-Mar-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 13-Mar-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 20-Mar-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 27-Mar-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 03-Apr-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 10-Apr-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 17-Apr-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 24-Apr-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 01-May-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 08-May-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 15-May-1982 | It's Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 22-May-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 29-May-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 05-Jun-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 12-Jun-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 19-Jun-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 26-Jun-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 03-Jul-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 10-Jul-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 17-Jul-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 24-Jul-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 31-Jul-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 07-Aug-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 14-Aug-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 21-Aug-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 28-Aug-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 04-Sep-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 11-Sep-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 18-Sep-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 25-Sep-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 02-Oct-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 09-Oct-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 16-Oct-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 23-Oct-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 30-Oct-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 06-Nov-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 13-Nov-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 20-Nov-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 27-Nov-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 04-Dec-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 11-Dec-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 18-Dec-1982 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 25-Dec-1982 | Cheeky's Christmas Crackers | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 01-Jan-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 08-Jan-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 15-Jan-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 22-Jan-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 29-Jan-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 05-Feb-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 12-Feb-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 19-Feb-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 26-Feb-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 05-Mar-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 12-Mar-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 19-Mar-1983 | Quizmaster - Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 19-Mar-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 26-Mar-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 02-Apr-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 09-Apr-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 09-Apr-1983 | Cheeky ET Challenge competition closing date extended | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 16-Apr-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 23-Apr-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 30-Apr-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 07-May-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 14-May-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 21-May-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 28-May-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 04-Jun-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 11-Jun-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 18-Jun-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee! | 25-Jun-1983 | Cheeky | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 02-Jul-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 09-Jul-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 16-Jul-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 23-Jul-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 30-Jul-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 06-Aug-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 13-Aug-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 20-Aug-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 27-Aug-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 27-Aug-1983 | Cheeky ET Challenge Winners | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 03-Sep-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 10-Sep-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 17-Sep-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 24-Sep-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 01-Oct-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 08-Oct-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 22-Oct-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 05-Nov-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 12-Nov-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 19-Nov-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 26-Nov-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 03-Dec-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 10-Dec-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 17-Dec-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 24-Dec-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 31-Dec-1983 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 07-Jan-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 14-Jan-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 21-Jan-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 21-Jan-1984 | TV Quiz Kids - Wail Of The Century (inc Cheeky) | Normal | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 28-Jan-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 04-Feb-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 11-Feb-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 18-Feb-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 10-Mar-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 24-Mar-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 31-Mar-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 07-Apr-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 14-Apr-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 21-Apr-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 05-May-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 12-May-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 02-Jun-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 09-Jun-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 16-Jun-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 23-Jun-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 07-Jul-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 21-Jul-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 28-Jul-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 11-Aug-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 18-Aug-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 25-Aug-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 01-Sep-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 29-Sep-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 13-Oct-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 17-Nov-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 24-Nov-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 01-Dec-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 08-Dec-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 22-Dec-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 29-Dec-1984 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 05-Jan-1985 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 19-Jan-1985 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 26-Jan-1985 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 02-Feb-1985 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 09-Feb-1985 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 16-Feb-1985 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee and Wow! | 23-Feb-1985 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee | 02-Mar-1985 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee | 09-Mar-1985 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee | 16-Mar-1985 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee | 23-Mar-1985 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
| Whoopee | 30-Mar-1985 | Cheeky | Quick Strips | 1 |
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Whizzer and Chips - The Cheeky Raids part 49
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.
I have done my best to identify any intrusions during this period, but can't guarantee that the odd sneaky one didn't bypass my raider radar.
The moratorium on new raids was eventually lifted, so there'll be more raiding fun soon!
During
the period covered so far in this series of Whizzer and Chips – The
Cheeky Raids posts, every week a character from Chips infiltrated
Whizzer and a member of the Whizzer cast gate-crashed Chips (although long-time
followers of this blog will know that I only report on those raids
which involved characters who appeared in Cheeky Weekly). For the benefit of those
less-than-eagle-eyed Whizz-kids or Chip-ites who were unable to locate the sneaky
interlopers, the identities of the clandestine intruders were
revealed each week in the following issue.
However,
it appears that the Whizzer and Chips editor’s apparent concerns over the unexpected consequences resulting from the rivalry he had engendered among readers, which emerged in May 1988,
resulted in a moratorium on raids as of Whizzer and Chips dated 30 July 1988, because commencing with the 06
August 1988 issue raiders ceased to be
identified. Now, this poses something of a problem for me, since
sometimes the cunningly-concealed uninvited guests can be difficult
to spot. When I encountered such a situation while researching this
series up to this point I was able to refer to the next issue to discover who had been
raided by whom. Nevertheless I have done my best to scour the issues
from 30 July 1988 (in which the previous week’s raiders were
revealed but no raids on that week’s content were in evidence)
onwards for raiders, and it seems that for a period there was a halt
to ’new’ raids. I believe a few raids did appear during what we
might call The Great Whizzer and Chips Truce, but it seems that
they only featured in reprinted strips which included a raider on
their first outing. In fact there was such an occurrence in that same
06 August 1988 first-to-include-no-raider-report issue, when the
reprinted Lazy Bones strip included a raid by an old character, Brave Dave.
Here is that reprinted Lazy Bones strip from the 06 August 1988 issue. The strip had originally appeared in Whizzer and Chips dated 19 November 1983.
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| Whizzer and Chips 06 August 1988, reprinted from 19 November 1983 Art: Colin Whittock |
Brave Dave first appeared in Whizzer and Chips dated 16 July 1983. Since he's a little-remembered character (certainly not as famous as Odd-Ball or Joker, for example), here's his strip from that same 19 November 1983 edition.
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| Whizzer and Chips 19 November 1983 Art: Vic Neill |
There
are 2 further reprinted raids that I have identified during the
period of the Truce – the next being a further intrusion upon Lazy
Bones, this time by JR in the 13 August 1988 comic. I'm assuming that this is another reprinted raid - I must admit I haven't tried tracking down the original. UPDATE 05 December 2019 - My thanks to Stephen Archer who has tracked down the original appearance of JR raiding Lazy Bones to Whizzer and Chips dated 21 April 1984.
However, the third reprinted raid is more relevant to this blog, since the incursion is undertaken by none other than our toothy pal. This Store Wars story originally appeared in Whizzer and Chips dated 25 August 1984, and was reprinted during the Truce, in the 05 August 1989 edition.
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| Whizzer and Chips 05 August 1989, reprinted from 25 August 1984 Art: Jim Watson |
I have done my best to identify any intrusions during this period, but can't guarantee that the odd sneaky one didn't bypass my raider radar.
The moratorium on new raids was eventually lifted, so there'll be more raiding fun soon!
| Whizzer and Chips Cover Date | Raider | Raided | ||||||
| 06 April 1985 | Mustapha Million | Super Steve | ||||||
| 04 May 1985 | Bloggs (Store Wars) | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 11 May 1985 | Joker | The Krazy Gang (Cheeky) | ||||||
| 18 May 1985 | Calculator Kid & Calc | Odd-Ball | ||||||
| 01 June 1985 |
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| 08 June 1985 | Odd-Ball | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 06 July 1985 | Toy Boy | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 13 July 1985 | Pa Bumpkin | The Krazy Gang (Cheeky) | ||||||
| 27 July 1985 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 24 August 1985 | Cheeky | Sid's Snake | ||||||
| 14 September 1985 |
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| 05 October 1985 | Mustapha Million | Animalad | ||||||
| 19 October 1985 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 23 November 1985 |
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| 18 January 1986 | Mustapha Million | Super Steve | ||||||
| 25 January 1986 |
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| 08 February 1986 The Krazy Gang ends this issue | Animalad | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 15 February 1986 | Lazy Bones | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 15 March 1986 | Odd-Ball | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 29 March 1986 | Calculator Kid | Master P Brain | ||||||
| 05 April 1986 | Bumpkin Billionaires | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 12 April 1986 | Animalad | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 31 May 1986 | Lazy Bones | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 07 June 1986 | Mustapha Million | Joker | ||||||
| 28 June 1986 | Sweet Tooth | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 26 July 1986 Calculator Kid ends this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | ||||||
| 16 August 1986 | Mustapha Million | Joker | ||||||
| 23 August 1986 | Sweet Tooth | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 18 October 1986 | Winnie the Royal Nag | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 06 December 1986 | Toy Boy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 13 December 1986 | Mustapha Million | Odd-Ball | ||||||
| 17 January 1987 | Sid | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 14 February 1987 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 11 April 1987 | Pa Bumpkin | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 25 April 1987 | Mustapha Million | Odd-Ball | ||||||
| 20 June 1987 | Toy Boy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 27 June 1987 | Mustapha Million | Memory Banks | ||||||
| 25 July 1987 | Lazy Bones | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 22 August 1987 | Winnie the Royal Nag | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 12 September 1987 | Mustapha Million | Sweet Tooth | ||||||
| 19 September 1987 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 24 October 1987 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 12 December 1987 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 13 February 1988 | Bloggs (Store Wars) | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 20 February 1988 | Mustapha Million | Joker | ||||||
| 12 March 1988 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 23 April 1988 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 28 May 1988 Readers asked not to let their Whizz-kid or Chip-ite sympathies colour their favourite strip votes | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | ||||||
| 11 June 1988 | Slippy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 16 July 1988 | Toy Boy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 30 July 1988 New raids halted | ||||||||
| 05 August 1989 (raid reprinted from 25 Aug 1984) | Cheeky | Store Wars |
Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Frank's a Tonic!
By the summer of 1982 the strip that was formerly known as The 12½p Buytonic Boy when it made its debut in Krazy, had been shorn of its monetary prefix during hero Steve Ford's continuing campaign against the villainous NME organisation in the pages of Whizzer and Chips. This adjustment to the title was probably made because younger readers would have been unaware of the '70s TV series which the strip originally spoofed, The Six Million Dollar Man (and not, as the Wikipedia page linked to above currently suggests, because the ½ p coin had ceased to be legal tender at that time - that didn't happen until 1984).
In those summer months, while Britons were happily still spending their ½ ps, little suspecting that Nigel Lawson was plotting their demise (the coins, not the Britons. But then again...), Robert Nixon, regular artist on the strip, took a few weeks off. Stepping in to illustrate the escapades of the titular potion-enhanced adventurer were Brian Walker and, for 3 issues, Frank McDiarmid.
In those summer months, while Britons were happily still spending their ½ ps, little suspecting that Nigel Lawson was plotting their demise (the coins, not the Britons. But then again...), Robert Nixon, regular artist on the strip, took a few weeks off. Stepping in to illustrate the escapades of the titular potion-enhanced adventurer were Brian Walker and, for 3 issues, Frank McDiarmid.
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| Whizzer and Chips 03 July 1982 |
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| There's something of Roger the Dodger in Frank's rendition of Steve in the first panel above |
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| Whizzer and Chips 10 July 1982. A single-page story this week I don't recall seeing Steve's dad before. |
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| Whizzer and Chips 24 July 1982 |
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| The scriptwriter seems to have had an overflowing-bath obsession at this stage |
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
The Whoopee! Years - Cheeky as Quizmaster, in E.T. Challenge and TV Quiz Kids
During Cheeky's final Whoopee! run in his eponymous strip, he also made some extra-stripular appearances.
The first of these occurred in the 19 March 1983 edition when our toothy pal was co-opted to introduce that week's Quizmaster feature. This puzzle series was hosted by a different luminary from among Whoopee!'s roster of funny folk each issue. In fact the first Quizmaster half-page of teasers, in Whoopee! dated 04 December 1982, was introduced by the jerseyed japester's erstwhile Cheeky Weekly colleague Calculator Kid who, accompanied by his extravagantly-moustachioed dad, would feature as subjects in a Quizmaster puzzle in the 14 May 1983 edition (hosted that week by Little Ed). Some of the Stage School kids would set the questions in the 29 January 1983 comic, Mustapha Million would host 12 March 1983's Quizmaster, while Robot Granny (previously known as 6 Million Dollar/$6,000,000 Gran) would pose the puzzles in Whoopee! dated 30 April 1983.
Returning to our toothy chum, his next appearance in a vehicle other than his own strip resulted from a reader participation feature which was launched within his own page in the 26 February 1983 issue...
By the time the results were published in the 27 August 1983 edition, the comic had undergone another merge to become Whoopee and Wow!
Cheeky's final Whoopee foray into a feature other than his own regular strip occurred on the TV Quiz Kids page in the 21 January 1984 comic, which I examined back in 2013.
The first of these occurred in the 19 March 1983 edition when our toothy pal was co-opted to introduce that week's Quizmaster feature. This puzzle series was hosted by a different luminary from among Whoopee!'s roster of funny folk each issue. In fact the first Quizmaster half-page of teasers, in Whoopee! dated 04 December 1982, was introduced by the jerseyed japester's erstwhile Cheeky Weekly colleague Calculator Kid who, accompanied by his extravagantly-moustachioed dad, would feature as subjects in a Quizmaster puzzle in the 14 May 1983 edition (hosted that week by Little Ed). Some of the Stage School kids would set the questions in the 29 January 1983 comic, Mustapha Million would host 12 March 1983's Quizmaster, while Robot Granny (previously known as 6 Million Dollar/$6,000,000 Gran) would pose the puzzles in Whoopee! dated 30 April 1983.
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| Whoopee! 19 March 1983 Quizmaster art: Roy Mitchell |
Returning to our toothy chum, his next appearance in a vehicle other than his own strip resulted from a reader participation feature which was launched within his own page in the 26 February 1983 issue...
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| Whoopee! 26 February 1983 Art: Frank McDiarmid |
By the time the results were published in the 27 August 1983 edition, the comic had undergone another merge to become Whoopee and Wow!
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| Whoopee and Wow! 27 August 1983 I can't identify this artist |
Cheeky's final Whoopee foray into a feature other than his own regular strip occurred on the TV Quiz Kids page in the 21 January 1984 comic, which I examined back in 2013.
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