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.
Whizzer and Chips dated 12 September 1987 saw our middle eastern mate embark on a sortie into enemy Whizzer territory for the first time since his 27 June 1987 raid on the recollection-deficient Bernie 'Memory' Banks. It has to be said that Mustapha doesn't make much effort to conceal himself, so you shouldn't have any trouble spotting him as he intrudes upon an uncharacteristically violent Sweet-Tooth. I don't remember boxes of wine gums ever containing cards of any type - in fact I don't remember boxes of wine gums at all. Tubes, yes and loose wine gums, but not boxes. Maybe the script writer was thinking of
Rowntree's fruit gums, boxes of which were available when I was a kid, although not including cards as far as I know. However by the time this issue of Whizzer and Chips was published my days as a young whippersnapper lay far in the past so maybe there had been developments in the wine gum market of which I was (and remain) unaware.
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Whizzer and Chips 12 September 1987
Art: Trevor Metcalfe |
This is the first time in Whizzer and Chips' post-Whoopee merge era that Sweet-Tooth has been raided by an ex-Cheeky Weekly character, but Mustapha was clearly exacting revenge for the confectionary-craving kid's previous intrusions into his strips in the issues dated
28 June and
23 August 1986.
More raiding fun soon!
Don't make Sweet tooth angry GULP!
ReplyDeleteYes - he'll give you a karate choc because he's an expert in marshmallow arts.
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