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 week after
Bloggs gatecrashed his strip for the second time, Mustapha exacted revenge on those pesky Whizz-kids. Can you spot him on his trip into enemy territory?
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Art: Sid Burgon |
I say, Mustapha, that's uncharacteristically coarse language! Those rough Whizzer and Chips types are having a bad influence on you. Despite this, I have chosen to believe that, contrary to all appearances, it was Joker's pal and not you who attached the bucket to the fishing line.
Mustapha had previously intruded upon the buttonhole-squirter-sporting Whizz-kid prankster in the issues dated
07 June and
16 August 1986, while Joker had raided our affluent chum in the
27 July 1985 and
12 December 1987 editions.
More raiding fun soon!
was well hidden under the bridge...so better than normal..
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