The previous post in this series focused on Whizzer and Chips dated 24 February 1990, which is the fifth issue in which I have been unable to identify raiders into both Whizzer and Chips - there have been 3 issues where the Chip-ite raider into Whizzer has evaded me, and 2 in which no interloper into Chips has been evident (to me) - see the table below for more details. Now it may be that my observational skills are lacking and it's just that I haven't looked hard enough (although I have scoured each of the issues in question a number of times), or it's possible that the person in the W&C office whose task it was to secrete two pasted-in images in each issue, one within Whizzer and the other somewhere among the funny folk of Chips, was less than assiduous in performing their clandestine task. Each issue at this period included captions on the Sid's Whizz-kids and Shiner's Chip-ites pages warning that the opposition had sent a raider into their section of the comic, but sadly the culprits were no longer exposed the following week as had been the practice until the 30 July 1988 comic.
In the issue following from that examined in my previous post, I have been able to identify raiders into Whizzer and Chips, and since Mustapha Million, who by this point was the only surviving character who had originated in Cheeky Weekly, was not involved in either of the raids, I can eliminate it from my investigations.
The edition published a week later, dated 10 March 1990, is yet another perplexing one, as I have identified 2 raiders but they are both within Chips!
There's an infant infiltrator into Lazy Bones' story on page 19, as a glowering Sweeny Toddler observes the teacher spout his expository monologue in the first panel. This strip is reprinted from page 6 of Whizzer and Chips dated 06 April 1985, which was the first edition merged with Whoopee. Sweeny's ugly fizzog was in evidence in the same position on that occasion because the teeny terror was seen (or left evidence of his presence in the form of graffiti) several times in the the inaugural merge issue as he prowled the comic in order to establish on which page his story had been placed (in the process outing Mustapha Million as the raider into Whizzer). On the original printing of this Lazy Bones story, a message reading 'Where is my page?' appeared below Sweeny's face.
Lazy Bones had undergone a conversion to Chipitism as of the comic dated 06 January 1990, so while this tale concerning the lethargic lad originally appeared in Whizzer, its 1990 reprint was located in Chips.
JR and Mustapha Million are both to be found on Sid's Whizz-kids page, but as objects of ridicule, so these appearances do not constitute raids.
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| Lazy Bones art: Colin Whittock Whizzer and Chips 10 March 1990 |
The second raid (which I'm viewing as this edition's 'official' whizz-kid intrusion upon Chips) is perpetrated on Mustapha Million. Can you identify the interloper? Scroll down to learn the identity of the trespasser...
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid |
...it's Whizzer's prime prankster Joker, committing his sixth intrusion upon Mustapha.
Unfortunately, the Chip-ite raider into Whizzer (if such is actually present in this particular issue) has evaded my questing eyeballs.
| 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 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 12 August 1989 Resumption of new raids (one per week) | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | ||||||
| 02 September 1989 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 16 September 1989 | Slippy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 23 September 1989 Weekly reciprocal raids resume | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | ||||||
| 28 October 1989 |
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| 11 November 1989 - Tarman is the Chip-ite raider into Whizzer, but I have been unable to identify any raider into Chips | ||||||||
| 18 November 1989 | Mustapha Million | Sid's Whizz-kids page | ||||||
| 02 December 1989 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 23 December 1989 - Junior Rotter is the Chip-ite raider into Whizzer, but I have been unable to identify any raider into Chips | ||||||||
| 30 December 1989 - Slippy is the Whizz-kid raider into Chips, but I have been unable to identify any raider into Whizzer | ||||||||
| 27 January 1990 - Slippy is the Whizz-kid raider into Chips, but I have been unable to identify any raider into Whizzer |
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| 24 February 1990 - Joker is the Whizz-kid raider into Chips, but I have been unable to identify any raider into Whizzer |
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| 10 March 1990 - Sweeny Toddler intrudes upon Lazy Bones in a reprinted 'raid' from Whizzer and Chips dated 06 April 1985. I have been unable to identify any raider into Whizzer. | Joker |
Mustapha Million |
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