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.
A month after being raided by Lazy Bones, Mustapha Million was approaching the end of his summer holiday, and enjoying a brief stopover at the Disneyland-esque (and reminiscent of Walley World as featured in the 1983 film National Lampoon's Vacation) Wishy World, when he was again subject to an unwelcome intrusion by one of those pesky Whizz-kids. Can you spot the miscreant in the story below? If your answer is 'nay', scroll down to discover the identity of the interloper.
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Whizzer and Chips 22 August 1987
Art: Barry Glennard |
Yes, it's that mischievous mare, Winnie the Royal Nag, who was the first to coin the annoying phrase which was adopted by many of the subsequent gloating raiders of Mustapha's strip (I can't bring myself to type the offending slogan, so please see her previous raid on our middle eastern mate
here). Mercifully, she didn't say it this time.
More raiding fun soon!
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