The Pages - page 32

Page 32 was of course the back cover of IPC’s humour titles in the late 70s (except in cases such as Cheeky Weekly’s two 28-page truncated issues). Let’s see what this prime, colour-bearing site had to offer readers over the course of the comic’s existence.

In the inaugural edition of the toothy funster’s title, the concluding segment of the Saturday picture show sequence was to be found in the subject location, together with a message from our grinning pal advising readers that the following issue would include a free ‘joke-filled’ Fun Wallet. The visual of Cheeky which accompanied this announcement was somewhat disturbing, as whoever assembled the image allocated a left hand to his right arm (the same unsettling image was used on the What's New, Kids features dated 12 November and 24 December 1977 and 07 January 1978).

Art: Frank McDiarmid, who I'm sure wasn't
responsible for the hand/arm gaffe

A week later, with bonfire night approaching, firework manufacturers Standard placed a full-page, colour ad on page 32. The ad took the form of a snakes-and-ladders-style board game featuring a selection of their incandescent products together with cautionary content such as ‘You are under 16 and try to buy your own fireworks. It is not allowed! Go back to [square] No. 4’.

Hopefully all Friends of Cheeky were sensible enough to follow the sage advice in Standard’s advert and thus fit and ready to read issue number 3 which on its back cover included the first part of the skateboard booklet, as did page 32 in the following three editions.

Immediately following the conclusion of the skateboard booklet was another cut-out-and-keep feature, this time a 1978 diary. Once again this ran for 4 editions, which seems to have been the default duration for all such promotional schemes.

In the comic dated 31 December 1977 the back page documented the Cheeky family’s preparations for their new year party, and ended on a cliff-hanger regarding the identity of the first person to cross their threshold as the chimes of midnight struck. Cheeky’s mum told him that he would have to kiss the first attendee if female. The toothy funster feared that he might be required to plant a smacker on Libby, Ursula or Louise, while his dad hoped that luscious Lily Pop would head the queue of revellers. Readers had to wait seven days to learn Cheeky’s fate, which was revealed on page 2, but in that issue the back cover was host to the first instalment of yet more cut-out content, this time the Cheeky Spotter Book of Fun. The Spotter book ran on the back page for, you won’t be surprised to learn, the following three editions.

A cut-out feature again occupied the page under review in the 04 February 1978 special skateboard edition. This time it was that week’s third section of the Skateboard Snap game. Contrary to my earlier assertion that these snip-and-save features ran for 4 weeks each time, all the elements of Skateboard Snap were contained within that single issue, so it troubled readers no more after this particular edition.

A week later Cheeky’s slimy sidekick Snail took control of the back cover to demand of readers (rather rudely, in my opinion) ‘Oi! What’s my name?’. The inimitable invertebrate went on to explain that he was fed up with not having a proper name and senders of the best suggestions for a mollusc monicker would receive £2.

Cheeky Weekly readers who had become a little tired of their Six Million Dollar Man/Follyfoot/Noddy bedroom wallpaper were delighted when, in the 18 February 1978 edition, the Pin-Up Pal series resumed with a back-page poster of cracking crossing lady Lily Pop. The colour printing on the back page made it the ideal location for the series (although the three previous posters were printed in the centre pages thus enjoying the additional benefit of double-sized posters). Readers would have the opportunity to complete the redecoration of their bedrooms as the series continued (with odd gaps and a longer period of absence as we will see later) until the 31 March 1979 issue. The second run of PUP ran, with some absences as shown below (mostly due to paid advertisements usurping the coveted back cover location), until 23 September 1978 and included the 16 September 1978 occasion when the comic contained 2 posters in one edition…

Date	Details
18-Feb-78	Pin-up pal 'Lily Pop' - Art Frank McDiarmid
25-Feb-78	Pin-up pal 'Jogging Jeremy' - Art Frank McDiarmid
04-Mar-78	Ad: Hovis (single appearance)
11-Mar-78	Pin-up pal 'The Vicar' - Art Frank McDiarmid
18-Mar-78	Pin-up pal 'Baby Burpo' - Art Frank McDiarmid
25-Mar-78	Pin-up pal 'Buster the Busker' - Art Frank McDiarmid
01-Apr-78	Pin-up pal 'Auntie Daisy' - Art Frank McDiarmid
08-Apr-78	Pin-up pal 'Sid the Street Sweeper' - Art Frank McDiarmid
15-Apr-78	Pin-up pal 'Louise' - Art Frank McDiarmid
22-Apr-78	Pin-up pal 'Constable Chuckle' - Art Frank McDiarmid
29-Apr-78	Pin-up pal 'Ursula' - Art Frank McDiarmid
06-May-78	Ad: Trebor 'Corgi Batman promotion' 2 of 3
13-May-78	Pin-up pal 'Six-Gun Sam' - Art Frank McDiarmid
20-May-78	Pin-up pal 'Granny Gumdrop' - Art Frank McDiarmid
27-May-78	Pin-up pal 'Posh Claude' - Art Frank McDiarmid
03-Jun-78	Ad: Rotaplane (first appearance)
10-Jun-78	Pin-up pal 'Do-Good Dora' - Art Frank McDiarmid
17-Jun-78	Pin-up pal 'Yikky-Boo' - Art Frank McDiarmid
24-Jun-78	Ad: Kellogg's
01-Jul-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid\Ad: IPC 'Mini Comics promotion' 2 of 3
08-Jul-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils\Ad: IPC 'Whizzer and Chips Holiday Special' 3 of 3
15-Jul-78	Ad: Wall's (final appearance) 'lollies'
22-Jul-78	Ad: Bubbly (first appearance)
29-Jul-78	Pin-up pal 'Bump-Bump Bernie' - Art Frank McDiarmid
05-Aug-78	Pin-up pal 'Libby' - Art Frank McDiarmid
12-Aug-78	Pin-up pal 'Teacher' - Art Frank McDiarmid
19-Aug-78	Pin-up pal 'Herman' - Art Frank McDiarmid
26-Aug-78	Pin-up pal 'Petula' - Art Frank McDiarmid
02-Sep-78	Crack-A-Joke Game (first appearance) 3/3
09-Sep-78	Crack-A-Joke Game 3/3
16-Sep-78	Pin-up pal 2/2 'Disco Kid' - Art Frank McDiarmid
23-Sep-78	Pin-up pal 'Snoozin' Susan' - Art Frank McDiarmid

A week after the second run of PUP came to an end, a new series of back cover features, which I have christened Cheeky’s Pal Puzzle, commenced. This feature occupied page 32 for 9 weeks and quite possibly generated unfavourable feedback from readers who had not succeeded in covering their bedroom walls when Pin-Up Pal ceased earlier in the year, because a new run of PUP began in the 06 January 1979 edition. This final PUP run was to last for 13 weeks, bringing the total number of times that Pin-Up Pal featured on page 32 to 35 and making it the most regular occupier of the site under review.

 

The Burpo Special was then relocated from the inside pages to the back cover, and occupied the same for 8 weeks until it was displaced by an advert for Trebor Chews featuring a colouring competition based on a Superman comic strip. The Burpo Special then resumed its page 32 run for a further 4 weeks which brought this feature to a conclusion and made it, with 12 appearances on page 32, the third most regular visitor to the subject location.

The back cover of the comic dated 07 July 1979 featured an advert for the less-than-enticing (in my view, never having been a fan of the sticky, black, tooth-discolouring and slightly bitter confectionary) liquorice novelties purveyed by Mr Bellamy.

Snail of the Century, which had the distinction of being the final original strip to commence in Cheeky Weekly, then began on the back page of the issue dated 14 July 1979. This initial run was broken after 3 issues when page 32 was host to an ad placed by British Rail who wanted readers to know about their Great Rail Club, which entitled train travellers between the ages of 5 and 15 to rail discount vouchers to the value of £5. ‘You can travel with your parents, or on your own with their permission’.

Snail and his back garden buddies then resumed occupation of the subject location for a further 6 issues, after which Why, Dad, Why? made a surprise bid to take control of the back cover, but was repelled just 7 days later when Snail of the Century began another 6 week residency. This time the snaily japes were interrupted by Mr Bellamy who was still trying to offload his liquorice bootlaces, pipes (yes, kids were encouraged to ape adult smokers but this was a time when the idea of kids aged 5 travelling alone on trains was apparently deemed acceptable) and sundry other unappealing ‘sweets’.

What was to be a 5 week run of SotC then commenced in the comic dated 17 November 1979, following which the hectic hilarity of Elephant on the Run made its single visit to the back page.

Snail-based humour then returned to the back page, and this run continued in that location until the penultimate edition of the toothy funster’s comic, dated 26 January 1980. This brought to 25 the number of times Snail of the Century had occupied page 32, making it the second most regular feature to appear there. A week later the back cover of the final edition of Cheeky Weekly announced that the first combined issue of Whoopee and Cheeky would include a competition to win Corgi Friscodisco record players. The back page ad also carried a coupon which was required in order to enter the competition together with another coupon for placing a regular order for Whoopee and Cheeky at the local newsagent. The TV ad for Friscodisco featured Tony Blackburn reading a comic, but not an IPC title - instead the disc jockey was seen with a copy of The Beano.

Count of Elements (or distinct combinations thereof) appearing on Page 32

Elements	Total
Pin-up pal	34
Snail of the Century	25
The Burpo Special	12
Saturday 2/2\Cheeky's Pal Puzzle	9
Diary 2/2	4
Skateboard booklet 2/2	4
The Cheeky Spotter Book of Fun 2/2	4
Saturday 2/2\Advertisement: IPC	3
Advertisement: Mr Bellamy's	2
Advertisement: Trebor	2
Crack-A-Joke Game 3/3	2
Page 32 not present	2
Advertisement: Bubbly	1
Advertisement: Hovis	1
Advertisement: IPC	1
Advertisement: Kellogg's	1
Advertisement: Rotaplane	1
Advertisement: Standard Fireworks	1
Advertisement: The Great Rail Club	1
Advertisement: Wall's	1
Elephant On The Run	1
New Year's Eve	1
Oi! What is My Name?	1
Pin-up pal 2/2	1
Skateboard Snap 3/3	1
Why, Dad, Why?	1

The Pages - Page 31

It’s always seemed to me that, in general, page 31 of IPC’s 32-page comics during the 70s was the least-favoured spot in any issue. The back cover was of course a prime location, being one of the limited number of pages in each issue that would feature colour printing (except in the case of Buster which, for some reason, was more parsimonious in its use of colour than its companion titles, limiting multi-hued artwork to its front page only), and it also had the responsibility of bringing the comic to a satisfying conclusion so I presume some thought was given to which strip would best suit the benefits and responsibilities of such a key spot (except on the occasions on which the back cover was the site of an advert, of course). I’ve always viewed the placement of strips as indicative of their popularity, and assume that the most successful features were allocated slots towards the front of the comic or in the colour-bearing centre or back pages, with the remaining locations hosting features placed in descending order of reader appreciation. Thus, in my (quite possibly erroneous) view of the rules of element distribution, whatever content occupied page 31 in most titles tended toward filler material or second-string adverts.


However, the situation pertaining to Cheeky Weekly was somewhat different. Each issue chronicled a week in our toothy pal’s gag-filled life, starting on Sunday and concluding the following Saturday. Since these seven pun-packed daily episodes were interspersed between the other features comprising each issue, initially acting as framing devices for the other strips, my assumption clearly cannot be applied to the Cheeky’s Week elements of the comic, nor the ‘framed’ strips and the strips contained within the Mystery Comic section, since they were all tied to a particular location, although I’d argue that my theory still holds true in respect of the non-Cheeky material in the issues published after the framing and Mystery Comic devices were abandoned.


Cheeky’s Saturday visits to the cinema dictated what would be printed on page 31 until the final Saturday morning pictures sequence was printed in the 02 December 1978 issue. Thus sci-fi cinema serial Space Family Robinson occupied the page under review in Cheeky Weekly’s debut edition, but the following week the placement of the picture show elements was disrupted somewhat by the debut of cartoon elements Bam Splat and Blooie and Cocky Doodle, plus the inclusion, as Guy Fawkes night approached, of the appearance on the back cover by an ad for Standard Fireworks, making the most of the colour printing to emulate the effects of their incandescent products. Thus Cheeky’s emergence from the cinema occupied page 31 that week, but for the following four weeks the subject page was host to the cut-out Skateboard booklet, an item again benefitting from the colour printing available overleaf on the back page.


The conclusion of the Skateboard booklet was immediately followed by another 4-week cut out scheme involving page 31, this time presenting readers with a diary in which to record their doings during 1978.


The intergalactic thrills of Space Family Robinson then returned for a single week, following whch yet more snip-out-and-save activity landed on page 31 as the Cheeky Spotter Book of Fun commenced its 4-week occupancy.


The 04 February 1978 issue was the skateboard special, and that week the location under review was home to Cheeky’s Saturday exit from the cinema, together with a photo of a chimp on a skateboard – the epitome of a filler. The concluding portion of Saturday turned up again the following week, but in the next issue page 31 contained 2 in-house ads; one for Misty issue 3 which that week featured a Wheel of Fortune Wallet free gift, and the other for Buster which was also handing out freebies in the form of Corona stickers relating to the soft drink manufacturer's 'Every bubble's passed its Fizzical' ad campaign.


Saturday and the slapstick antics of Bam Splat and Blooie then shared the page, after which Saturday found itself alongside some stamp-collecting ads (please tell your parents) and the announcement of the forthcoming competition to win a copy of Basil Brush's most recent vinyl release, Boom! Boom! It's the eponymous, bushy-tailed, Ivan Owen-operated humorous puppet. That IPC failed to issue an LP record featuring songs and japes performed by Cheeky and pals is of course something with which all true Friends of Cheeky have ever since failed to come to terms.


The brief conclusion to Saturday then continued to appear on page 31, together with a variety of ads and features…

Date	Details
11-Mar-78	What's New, Kids\Saturday 2/2 - Art Barrie Appleby
18-Mar-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils\Ad: IPC 'Mickey Mouse' 1 of 18
25-Mar-78	Ad: IPC 'Monster Fun Holiday Special' 1 of 2 \Saturday 2/2 - Art Unknown Cheeky Artist 1
01-Apr-78	Saturday - April Fool's Day (single appearance) 3/3 - Art Jim Watson
08-Apr-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Jim Watson
15-Apr-78	Bam Splat and Blooie reprint from Buster\Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid
22-Apr-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Barrie Appleby\Ad: IPC 'Roy of the Rovers' 4 of 8
29-Apr-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Jim Watson\Ad: IPC 'Roy of the Rovers' 5 of 8
06-May-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Barrie Appleby\Ad: IPC 'Look and Learn' 9 of 16
13-May-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils\Ad: IPC 'Jinty' 1 of 7
20-May-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Jim Watson\Ad: IPC 'Tiger' 2 of 10
27-May-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Dick Millington\Ad: IPC 'Jinty' 3 of 7
03-Jun-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Jim Watson\What's New, Kids
10-Jun-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Jim Watson\Ad: IPC 'Jinty' 4 of 7
17-Jun-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Mike Lacey\Ad: IPC 'Junior Puzzles'
24-Jun-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils\Ad: IPC 'The Best of Krazy' 1 of 2

The commencement of the Mini Comics promotion in the issue dated 01 July 1978 resulted in some disruption to the usual order, so in that and the subsequent edition James Bold found himself the subject of the page under review., but then Saturday resumed occupation…

Date	Details
15-Jul-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Mike Lacey\Ad: IPC 'Mini Comics promotion' 3 of 3
22-Jul-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Barrie Appleby
29-Jul-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid\Ad: IPC 'Whoopee' 2 of 9
05-Aug-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid\Ad: IPC 'Jinty' 5 of 7
12-Aug-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils\Ad: IPC 'Jinty' 6 of 7
19-Aug-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid\Ad: IPC 'Jinty' 7 of 7
26-Aug-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Mike Lacey
02-Sep-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
09-Sep-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid\Ad: IPC 'Soccer Monthly' 1 of 5
16-Sep-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid\Ad: IPC 'Three Great Comics'
23-Sep-78	Saturday 2/2 - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils

As mentioned above, the 30 September 1978 issue was the last to include the Saturday morning pictures sequence (although Saturday continued as a 2-page per week feature, thereafter focusing on the toothy funster’s Saturday afternoon pursuits), and in that issue Tweety and Sylvester’s antagonistic escapade occupied page 31. 7 days later The Terrible Trail to Taggart's Treasure began an 8 week run (making the piratical peregrinations of the Mason clan the third most regular subject on page 31), following which truncation of the subsequent 2 issues due to industrial action meant there was no page 31. The comic then failed to be published for 3 weeks as the industrial problems escalated.


When the comic resumed publication with the issue dated 06 January 1979, page 31 was once again the home to Saturday, and that continued to be that case for a further 12 weeks. The 07 April 1979 edition saw page 31 host the assembly instructions for the Top Ten Poster, part 1 of which was contained in that issue. Saturday then resumed for the remaining 43 issues of the comic’s run, bringing the total times that Saturday occupied the location in question to 88, making it the most regular occupant of the site. The second most frequent inhabitants of the subject location were half-page, in-house ads for IPC product, which appeared there in 20 issues.

Count of Elements (or distinct combinations thereof) appearing on Page 31

Elements	Total
Saturday 2/2	63
Saturday 2/2\Advertisement: IPC	17
The Terrible Trail to Taggart's Treasure 2/2	8
Diary 1/2	4
Skateboard booklet 1/2	4
The Cheeky Spotter Book of Fun 1/2	4
Bam Splat and Blooie\Saturday 2/2	2
James Bold 2/2	2
Space Family Robinson 2/2	2
Page 31 not present	2
Advertisement: IPC\Advertisement: IPC	1
Advertisement: IPC\Saturday 2/2	1
Chimp on a skateboard photo\Saturday 2/2	1
Easter Saturday 2/2	1
Saturday - April Fool's Day 3/3	1
Saturday 2/2\What's New, Kids	1
Top Ten Poster instructions\Advertisement: IPC	1
Tweety and Sylvester 2/2	1
What's New, Kids\Saturday 2/2	1

The Pages - Page 30

Page 30 in the debut issue of the toothy funster’s comic hosted the first page of the inaugural episode of Space Family Robinson, entitled (no sniggering) The Snatch. A week later the Robinsons’ exile on a faraway planet was once again the subject of the page in question, but issue number 3 saw Cheeky’s emergence from the Saturday morning picture show sharing the page with an assortment of sub-half-page announcements and ads, beginning what was to be a 8-week run during which the concluding part of Saturday shared the page with a similar mix of odds and ends.

The 31 December 1977 issue saw the Robinsons return to the subject page, but the following week a 4 week run of ads for IPC product commenced, featuring promotional pushes for Roy of the Rovers, Shoot and, in a campaign encompassing several humour titles, Whoopee!, Cheeky Weekly, Whizzer and Chips and Krazy, each of which was running a competition with kites as prizes.

Space Family Robinson then resumed occupation for 2 weeks, but were then ousted by the concluding part of Saturday again. The deep space perils faced by the Robinson clan then occupied page 30 once more, this time for an 18 week run, the conclusion of which coincided with the final episode of their epic interstellar adventure. The indomitable abductees were the second most regular occupants of page 30, with a tally of 23 appearances there.

Yet more thrills were to be experienced on page 30 the following week, as what was to be James Bold’s final Cheeky Weekly adventure, Island of Fear, commenced and was serialised in that location for the duration of its 6-episode run. Taking over from Bold as the adventure serial element of Cheeky’s Saturday morning picture show were the incredible airborne team Archie’s Angels who, like Bold before them, remained in the location under review for the whole of their 6 week escapade.

Further excitement was to be had a week later when Sonny Storm made his single Cheeky Weekly appearance.

In the comic dated 30 September 1978, the tedious duo Tweety and Sylvester brought humour (if you can call it that) back to page 30, but were ousted by more adventure a week later when the piratical perils of The Terrible Trail to Taggart's Treasure began to be documented, remaining in that location until the strip's penultimate episode

The issues dated 02 and 09 December were reduced to 28 pages due to industrial action, and Cheeky Weekly failed to be published for 3 weeks following that, but in the issue dated 06 January 1979 Saturday returned to the subject location. However, unlike the Saturday elements that appeared previously on page 30, which had been the conclusions to Cheeky’s weekly cinema visit, this time it was the first page of Cheeky’s 2-page Saturday; the cinema show sequence had come to an end in the edition dated 02 December 1978, after which the Saturday page depicted the toothy funster’s Saturday afternoon pursuits.

Saturday’s first page continued to occupy page 30 for a further 12 editions, but in the comic dated 07 April 1979 the Chit-Chat letters page made its single appearance in the location under review. In the 14 April 1979 issue the subject page was host to Easter Saturday, following which the bog-standard Saturdays resumed for a marathon 42 issue run, lasting until the final Cheeky Weekly dated 02 February 1980. Saturday was the most regular occupant of page 30, with a total of 65 visits (if we include all variants, i.e. Saturday 1/2, Saturday 2/2 and Easter Saturday 1/2).

Page 30 exhibited 18 churn events during Cheeky Weekly's run, ranking it the third least churn-affected page.

Count of Elements (or distinct combinations thereof) appearing on Page 30

Elements	Total
Saturday 1/2	55
Space Family Robinson 2/2	21
The Terrible Trail to Taggart's Treasure 1/2	8
Saturday 2/2	7
Archie's Angels 2/2	5
James Bold 2/2	4
Advertisement: IPC	3
James Bold 1/2	2
Saturday 2/2\Advertisement: IPC	2
Space Family Robinson 1/2	2
Page 30 absent	2
Advertisement: IPC\Advertisement: IPC	1
Archie's Angels 3/3	1
Chit-Chat	1
Easter Saturday 1/2	1
Sonny Storm 2/2	1
Tweety and Sylvester 1/2	1

The Pages - Page 29

The cinema-based shenanigans of Interval occupied page 29 in Cheeky Weekly's first issue, but the following week the main feature of the Saturday morning picture show, the sci-fi thriller Space Family Robinson, began a 9 week run in the subject location, at the end of which Interval moved back in, that particular issue being the 1977 Christmas edition.

After the festivities, the Robinsons resumed occupation of page 29 for a marathon 25 week run, which brought them to the conclusion of their story and saw them (spoiler alert) return to Earth after a hazardous sojourn on an distant planet. The space family appeared on page 29 a total of 34 times, making them the most regular visitors to that location.

Interval then enjoyed a 2 week page 29 run, after which the big-screen adventures of James Bold on The Island of Fear moved in as from the serial's 3^rd episode and ran to the conclusion of that particular adventure, which also brought to an end Bold's Cheeky Weekly appearances, 3 weeks later.

Taking over from Bold as the adventure serial element of Cheeky's cinema visits as of the 12 August 1978 comic was Archie's Angels, a tale of fearless flying reprinted from Whizzer and Chips. Page 29 hosted the entire 6-week Angels adventure (or at least page 2 of their debut 3-page instalment, and page 1 of each of the subsequent 2-pagers).

Following the Angels as the thrill-providing segment of the cinema show, and occupying page 29 a week later, was another reprint, this time resurrected from the pages of Cor!!, the punningly-named Sonny Storm who appeared in only one issue of the toothy funster's title.

Interval then returned to page 29 for what was to be a 9-issue run that concluded its appearances in the location under review and making it the third most regular occupant of page 29 with a total of 13 visits.

In the 2 subsequent issues, dated 02 and 09 December 1978, there was no page 29, as industrial action led to the page count being reduced from the usual 32 to 28. The industrial troubles then evidently worsened, as Cheeky Weekly failed to appear for 3 weeks.

It seems the dispute was resolved by mid-to-late December, as publication resumed with the issue dated 06 January 1979, in which The Burpo Special came to rest on page 29, initiating a run in that location which would last for 7 weeks.

Cheeky Weekly's letters page, Chit-Chat, then took over page 29 for 2 weeks, being ousted in the 10 March 1979 edition by a returning Burpo Special, that week focusing on Krazy Town's risible rozzer, Constable Chuckle. A week later however, Burpo was again displaced, this time by a rather scrappily- constructed page consisting of the answers to the Disaster Des spot-the-difference puzzle that appeared on page 14, 2 stamp collecting ads (“please tell your parents”), an ad for IPC's Mickey Mouse comic which was running a competition to win a holiday at Walt Disney World in Florida, plus a reminder to readers that successful contributors to the Chit-Chat feature would bag £2 and a Friend of Cheeky badge.

In the following issue the subject location listed the 50 the lucky winners of a Smurfs LP from the competition which had appeared in the 09 December 1978 comic, and below that list of kids who would soon be tormenting their parents with the warblings of the shrill-voiced blue elves, was an ad alerting readers to the presence of a knitting pattern for Cheeky's jersey in the following edition.

Chit-Chat came to rest on page 29 in that special jersey issue, but in the 07 April 1979 comic it was Cheeky's Saturday doings that were related there. 7 days later the subject location contained instructions for assembling the Top Ten poster, the second part of which was included in that issue, plus an ad for that year's Cor!! Holiday Special (despite the weekly title having ceased publication in 1974). The poster instructions were repeated on page 29 in the next issue, but sharing the page this time was an ad announcing that packets of Kellogg's milkshake mix were to be given free with upcoming editions of Buster, Whoopee!, Whizzer and Chips, Cheeky Weekly and Mickey Mouse.

Cheeky guided readers through the complexities of assembling the Top Ten poster yet again a week later, which was the issue containing the final section of the (less-than-scintillating) wall adornment. Below the instructions were 2 stamp collecting ads, a reminder that cash was to be won by contributing to the Joke-Box Jury, Paddywack and Chit-Chat pages, a coupon enabling readers to order their Cheeky Weekly from the newsagent and, to fill an empty space, a drawing of Snail with associated thought balloon, placed in such a way that he was depicted as thinking, in his own molluscy fashion, the 'cash prizes' reminder.

In the 05 May 1979 comic, with the holiday season looming, page 29 was the site of ads for 2 more IPC Specials – that year's Krazy (another posthumous special, Krazy - the title which spawned our toothy pal - having bit the dust a year earlier) and Frankie Stein summer collections.

Chit-Chat then returned for 2 weeks, being usurped by Joke-Box Jury, after which page 29 was again given over to ads for IPC product, this time promoting the company's newest humour title Jackpot and long-running educational mag Look and Learn. More IPC ads were to follow in the next issue when the Buster Holiday Special was allocated a half-page slot prominently featuring that comic's humorous take on Jaws, Gums, below which Cheeky turned up to announce the following week's special Disco issue of Cheeky Weekly, and helpfully providing another coupon with which to order the comic from your local newsagent.

The lively letters of Chit-Chat then enjoyed another 2 week page 29 outing (on the second occasion sharing the page with an ad for IPC's piscatorial publication Angler's Mail), after which an ad for model aircraft from the North Pacific Flyers range shared the page with yet another announcement by Cheeky, this time informing readers that as of next week, the Mystery Comic was to be incorporated into Cheeky Weekly, ending its run as a comic-within-a-comic (although all the Mystery Comic features would continue). Our grinning pal was so excited by this development, together with the news that two new stories would join his comic, that on this occasion he forgot to provide a newsagent's coupon.

Erstwhile Mystery Comic cover star, the rotund rascal Tub, finding himself freed from the constraints of the centre pages of the comic, then made his sole visit to the subject location, sharing the site with an ad for Dunlop's Playsport line of outdoor game equipment. It was then the turn of Stage School to make a single appearance on page 29, after which another pair of IPC ads turned up, this time the first Jackpot Summer Special was promoted alongside Walt Disney's Puzzle Time.

Paddywack made his debut page 29 appearance a week later, and the 2 subsequent editions carried in the subject location the same ad for retailer WH Smith, who were offering free posters (although little detail was given about the content) with purchases of Corgi, Dinky and Matchbox toys.

The following week an ad for the first merged issue of 2000AD and Tornado shared the location under review with an ad for Freshen-Up chewing gum and more poster assemblage instructions, this time relating to the Giant Cheeky Poster, the first part of which, featuring our toothy pal's feet, was included that week.

7 days later another ad appeared, this time placed by confectioners Trebor, who were running a promotion whereby consumers of their Double Agents boiled sweets could obtain a Double Glow Seven kit, consisting of an iron-on transfer and sheet of stickers, both of which would glow in the dark (“tee shirt not included in offer”).

In the 01 September 1979 comic, page 29 was the location of another ad for IPC's Walt Disney's Puzzle Time, together with an ad for Whizz-Kids – nothing to do with IPC's Chips-encapsulating title, but rather a line of instructional paperback books published by MacDonald Educational on topics such as ponies, bikes and birdwatching (not to be carried out simultaneously, I hasten to add).

Mustapha Million then brought his brand of affluent adventures to the subject location for a single time, and a week later the whole page was given over to an ad publicising the debut issue of IPC's new footie mag, Top Soccer, which included a free autograph album (blank, presumably).

Top Soccer was advertised again on page 29 in the following issue, but this time the ad was reduced to a half page which shared the site with a promotional boost for the 1980 Cheeky Annual, the first time that year's hardback collection of Cheekiness had been advertised in Cheeky Weekly.

The perplexing prattlings of Paddywack then returned to the subject location for one week, after which our mayhem-generating mate Disaster Des moved in for his single, catastrophic visit. Paddywack then returned, but a week later was deposed by the gagsters of Joke-Box Jury. Paddywack then fetched up for a 3 week run that was to conclude his visits to page 29.

Chit-Chat then moved in for the 12 weeks that remained before the toothy funster's comic was cancelled, bringing the number of times that this reader participation feature appeared in the subject location to 19, making it the second most regular occupant.

Count of Elements (or distinct combinations thereof) appearing on Page 29

Elements	Total
Space Family Robinson 1/2	21
Chit-Chat	13
Interval	13
Space Family Robinson 2/2	13
The Burpo Special	8
Advertisement: IPC\Advertisement: IPC	5
Archie's Angels 1/2	5
Chit-Chat 2/2	5
James Bold 1/2	4
Paddywack	4
Advertisement: IPC	3
Advertisement: WH Smith	2
Paddywack 2/2	2
Page 29 not present	2
Advertisement: IPC\Advertisement: Whiz Kids	1
Advertisement: North Pacific Flyers\Advertisement: IPC	1
Advertisement: Trebor	1
Archie's Angels 2/3	1
Chit-Chat 2/2\Advertisement: IPC	1
Disaster Des	1
Joke-Box Jury	1
Joke-Box Jury 2/2	1
Mustapha Million 2/2	1
Poster instructions\Advertisement: IPC	1
Saturday 2/2	1
Smurfs competition results\Advertisement: IPC	1
Sonny Storm 1/2	1
Stage School 2/2	1
Top Ten Poster instructions	1
Top Ten Poster instructions\Advertisement: IPC	1
Tub\Advertisement: Dunlop Playsport	1

The Pages - Page 28

Each issue of Cheeky Weekly commenced with the toothy funster's doings on Sunday, then progressed through the week, culminating in the following Saturday. Thus, as we progress towards the back of the comic in this series examining the contents of each page throughout the comic's run, we find ourselves considering the latter portion of the week. Since Cheeky had a regular appointment at the Saturday morning picture show, it's not surprising that we encounter an element of the picture show sequence on page 28 of Cheeky Weekly's first edition, namely the second page of Wile E Coyote's adventure which was that issue's strip representing the animated cartoon element of the big screen programme.

The following week the Interval component of the picture show sequence came to rest on page 28, but 7 days later an 8-week run on page 28 of Space Family Robinson, the adventure serial element of the show, commenced.

This run was ended in the 31 December 1977 Christmas issue when Bam Splat and Blooie shared page 28 with and ad for IPC's soccer title, Shoot!

Sci-Fi thrills then resumed as Space Family Robinson enjoyed a further 4 week sojourn in the subject location, after which Interval moved back in for 2 issues. The 04 February 1978 edition saw Bam Splat and Blooie sharing page 28 with a half page Interval. Interval expanded to its usual full page the following issue, after which Space Family Robinson returned for what was to be their final page 28 outing. The Robinsons' alien-planet-ordeal occupied page 28 on 13 occasions making them the third most frequent occupants.

Interval then resumed for 18 issues, interrupted for 2 weeks by Tweety and Sylvester. In the comic dated 15 July 1978, Interval began a 4-week run, after which the debut Cheeky Weekly appearance of Archie's Angels came to rest on page 28. However, the intrepid air display teams's tenure of the subject location was to prove brief, as Interval then commenced a 6 issue residency which proved to be the final Interval run in that location, bringing to 31 the total times the feature appeared on page 28 and making it the most regular occupant.

In the 30 September 1978 comic it was the fearsomely-fanged-predator-versus-geriatric-protagonist shenanigans of Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Wolf? that acted as the animated cartoon, but Tweety and Sylvester provided the same function a week later, with Ghouldilocks doing the same thing in her own spectral fashion in the following issue.

In honour of Cheeky Weekly's first birthday, the 14 October 1978 edition saw a special one-off Interval element, Hey Presto! Magic Show, occupy page 28, but the furious bird-and-cat feuding of Tweety and Sylvester then returned to the site under review for 5 weeks.

The first of the truncated issues, dated 02 December 1978, resulted in page 28 being the back cover and thus Saturday (featuring the last of the Cheeky's Pal Puzzles) being the occupant, while the back page of the second 28-page issue a week later was home to a Pin-Up Pal poster of Flash Harry. Cheeky Weekly was then absent from newsagents for 3 weeks, returning with an issue dated 06 January 1979, in which the Chit-Chat letters page made its first appearance on page 28, remaining in that location for a further 12 issues until ousted by Saturday. However, Chit-Chat moved back in a week later, this time clocking up a 9-week run.

Page 28 in the 16 June 1979 edition hosted a competition entitled Who Is The Alpha Man?, inviting readers who had been following the nefarious deeds of the aforementioned letter-loving criminal to submit their guesses as to the identity of the titular felon, whose story had come to a conclusion on the preceding page. Sharing page 28 with this competition was a half-page ad placed by Dunlop, who were promoting their line of Playsport outdoor games with a nice drawing by Nick Baker (of Smiler fame) depicting a bunch of kids and parents working themselves into a frenzy of summer, back-garden fun while using a selection of the products on offer.

Chit-Chat moved back for 2 weeks which concluded its appearances in the subject location and making it the second most regular page 28 occupant with a total of 24 visits.

Speed Squad thundered onto page 28 a week later, their first outing in this location, but their initial sojourn was a brief one as in the next edition the showbiz antics of Stage School replaced the intrepid trio.

The various blunders of Paddywack were then the subject of the location under review for 6 issues until, in the 01 September 1979 comic, Disaster Des made his sole visit, after which Mustapha Million enjoyed a similarly unique outing.

Paddywack then returned for 2 weeks, and then Why, Dad, Why? turned up for a week. The reprinted telephonic tribulations of Ringer Dinger made their Cheeky Weekly debut 7 days later, but then Why, Dad, Why? returned.

The following week an ad drawn by Brian Bolland depicting selections from Palitoy's Star Wars range occupied page 28 but 7 days later Cheeky's Friday doings were the subject of the page. Paddywack then made a final foray on to the location under review, after which Speed Squad moved back in for 9 issues, in the 15 December 1979 comic sharing the page with a row of vintage Mike Lacey single-panel gags, a filler that was entitled Cheeky Chuckles.

A one-off filler feature focusing on the health regime of Krazy Town's fitness fanatic failure, Jogging Jeremy's Weakly Exercise Routine, then shared the page with ad an for IPC's veteran sport-oriented title Tiger,  alerting prospective readers to the imminent commencement of a 1980 Winter Olympics booklet within its pages.

Speed Squad's high-velocity escapades were the subject of page 28 in the final 2 issues of Cheeky Weekly, and they were the third most regular visitors to the site under review with 11 of their strips zooming through.

The Pages - Page 27

Wile E Coyote was the occupant of page 27 in Cheeky Weekly's first issue. Although his usual prey, the fleet-footed fowl Road Runner, did appear in the strip, the conniving canine was the focus of this story and thus got the billing. The following issue saw former Buster stars Bam Splat and Blooie and Cocky Doodle sharing reprinted adventures on the subject page.

I don't know who did the artwork

All three aforementioned strips were used to represent the animated cartoon elements of Cheeky's Saturday visits to the cinema, and the picture show Interval took up residence in the subject location a week later, beginning an 8-week run. Cocking of doodles was then in evidence as the poultry protagonist shared page 27 with an ad for IPC's iconic soccer paper Roy of The Rovers, but in Cheeky Weekly dated 07 January 1978 Interval began a 4-week residency which came to an end when further fowl deeds were perpetrated, this time by Henery Hawk, who was the subject of the 04 February 1978 cartoon film.

A far better-known Warner Brothers feathered property, the lisping waterfowl Daffy Duck, occupied page 27 a week later. Interval then returned for one week, following which a run of Warner Brothers bird-centric strips commenced...

Date	Details
25-Feb-78	Road Runner 2/2 'A Bird in Hand'
04-Mar-78	Tweety and Sylvester 2/2 'Too Many Grannies'
11-Mar-78	Daffy Duck (final appearance) 2/2 'Snack Time'
18-Mar-78	Road Runner 2/2 'The Lucky Charms'
25-Mar-78	Tweety and Sylvester 2/2 'Showdown at Granny's'
01-Apr-78	Road Runner 2/2 'The Plant Plot'
08-Apr-78	Tweety and Sylvester 2/2 'A Gift For Granny'
15-Apr-78	Road Runner 2/2 'The Cool Caper'
22-Apr-78	Tweety and Sylvester 2/2 'A Bird Can Fly But Can A Fly Bird'
29-Apr-78	Road Runner 2/2 'Coyote Catcher'
06-May-78	Tweety and Sylvester 2/2 'Pet Getter'
13-May-78	Road Runner 2/2 'Flypaper Caper'
20-May-78	Tweety and Sylvester 2/2 'All Duded Up'
27-May-78	Road Runner 2/2 'Thunder Blunder'
03-Jun-78	Road Runner (final appearance) 2/2 'Trombone Boo Boo'
10-Jun-78	Tweety and Sylvester

IPC then resorted to their own archives to fill the cartoon slot in the following two issues - more Bamming, Splatting and Blooieng sourced from Buster was in evidence on page 27 in Cheeky Weekly dated 17 June 1978, while Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? (breaking the run of avian influence), retrieved from the musty vaults of Cor!!, appeared a week later.

Tweety and Sylvester then began a 6-week residency, interrupted by Interval in the 12 August 1978 edition. This was the final visit by Interval to the location under review, bringing the total times it appeared there to 14 and making it the third most regular occupant. The feeble fur vs feather feuding of Tweety and his feline nemesis resumed for four editions, and 7 days later Hickory Dickory Doc, another reprint sourced from Cor!!, occupied page 27 to represent that week's cartoon show.

In Cheeky Weekly dated 23 September 1978, the location under review hosted a half-page conclusion to Tweety and Sylvester, together with an ad informing readers that the whole of the Mystery Comic would be included in the following edition. In that subsequent issue page 27 hosted an ad inviting readers to join the Superkids Club, Superkids apparently being a line of children's boots and shoes.

The seemingly interminable ructions between Tweety and Sylvester then resumed their tedious course for a week, being supplanted in the following edition by a page advertising IPC's Soccer Monthly and the worthy Look and Learn (all British kids lived in fear of their parents replacing their weekly comic with Look and Learn).

The second page of a special one-off strip celebrating Cheeky Weekly's first birthday occupied the site under review in the comic dated 21 October 1978, but the irritating bird-and-cat shenanigans of Tweety and blah continued a week later.

The following issue saw Cheeky's Saturday occupy page 27 but, you guessed it, the unbearably dull duo, T and S (I can't even bring myself to type their names any more) resumed for 3 weeks which, mercifully, brought their page 27 appearances to welcome (by me, anyway) conclusion (although Cheeky Weekly readers would have to suffer one more appearance by thing and wotsit, in the issue dated 02 December 1978, but that was on pages 23 and 24 so finally we can bid them good riddance in this post nyhaahh! haaa haaa! haaahaaa! ahem). Grudgingly, I have to report that the pair foisted their yawnsome travails onto page 27 a total of 23 times, making them the most regular occupants.

The final episode of reprinted piratical adventure tale The Terrible Trail to Taggart's Treasure came to rest on page 27 in the comic dated 02 December 1978, and a week later Saturday once again occupied the subject location. Cheeky Weekly was then absent from newsagents for 3 weeks due to industrial inaction at the printers, but more thrills, and not inconsiderable spills, were to be found on page 27 when publication resumed with an issue cover dated 06 January 1979, and for the ensuing 7 editions, as young sleuth Eagle Eye, another exhumation from the IPC tombs, brought his observational skills to bear on a number of nefarious schemes.

Further recycled wrongdoing, this time perpetrated by the Alpha Man whose criminal plans were originally related in the pages of Shiver and Shake, played out on page 27 for the next 18 weeks, making the titular antihero the second most regular visitor page to 27.

Mustapha Million then paid his single visit to the subject location, following which Tub also made his one-time appearance there, sharing the page with an ad encouraging readers to place a regular order for their weekly dose of Cheeky chuckles.

Why, Dad, Why? then made its first page 27 appearance, and remained there for a further week before being deposed by What's New, Kids. In the 11 August 1979 comic, the site under review was host to a full page ad announcing that the first instalment of a four-part colour poster of the toothy funster, together with the results of the Alpha Man competition, would feature in the following issue.

In that ensuing edition, Why, Dad, Why? resumed its page 27 run, amounting this time to 3 weeks, after which Paddywack found himself sharing the same location with an ad for the 1980 Cor!! annual. Friday then fetched up on page 27, before a 3-week run of ads for IPC product including, as Christmas 1979 loomed, more promotion of that season's annuals, began...

Date	Details
29-Sep-79	Ad: IPC 'Whoopee Guy Fawkes mask' 2 of 3 Ad: 'Puzzle Time' 6 of 6
06-Oct-79	Ad: IPC 'Buster Book' 1 of 2 Ad: 'Top Soccer' 3 of 3
13-Oct-79	Ad: IPC 'Monster Fun Annual'Ad: 'Buster Book' 2 of 2

7 days later Why, Dad, Why? made its final foray onto page 27, and for the 2 subsequent issues advertorial feature What's New, Kids focused on a number of toys and books that their respective manufacturers no doubt hoped would find their way into Christmas stockings across the nation.

More ads, most of which were promoting IPC publications, followed...

Date	Details
10-Nov-79	Ad: IPC 'Jackpot' 6 of 7 Ad: 'Cheeky Weekly: Knock-Knock Jokes Booklet next week'
17-Nov-79	Ad: IPC 'Cheeky Annual' 5 of 6 \Ad: Pop-A-Points
24-Nov-79	Ad: IPC 'Krazy Annual' 4 of 4 \Ad: Palitoy 'Star Wars Collection' 3 of 3
01-Dec-79	Ad: Palitoy (final appearance)
08-Dec-79	Ad: IPC 'Cor Annual' 5 of 5 Ad: 'Look and Learn' 16 of 16
15-Dec-79	Ad: IPC 'Whoopee' 9 of 9 Ad: 'Junior Jet Club Competition next week'
22-Dec-79	Ad: IPC 'Cheeky Weekly: Christmas Issue next week'Ad: 'Cheeky Annual' 6 of 6

In the Christmas 1979 issue of Cheeky Weekly, Disaster Des made a one-off visit to page 27, and then the ads resumed...

Date	Details
05-Jan-80	Ad: IPC 'Mickey Mouse' 14 of 18 Ad: 'Penny' 2 of 3
12-Jan-80	Ad: IPC 'Mickey Mouse' 15 of 18 Ad: 'Shoot' 10 of 13

Joke-Box Jury then moved in for 2 weeks, and in the final edition of Cheeky Weekly page 27 hosted two ads, one for Tiger, and the other for Shoot. In those days these titles were seen as being aimed at young males and it's a little surprising that, since the toothy funster's non-gender-specific comic had come to an end and erstwhile readers would be considering their options for future comic consumption, one of the ads wasn't devoted to a title from IPC's range of 'girl's' comics. Maybe the publisher's market research indicated that the number of female Cheeky Weekly readers was insufficient to make it worthwhile.

The Pages – Page 26

Page 26 was the location of the first page (of two) chronicling Cheeky's Saturday doings in the first 2 issues of Cheeky Weekly, but in the third and fourth editions the page was host to the cartoon supporting feature portion of Saturday's picture show programme. The animated features watched by the toothy funster and his pals were represented by reprints of old half-page Bam Splat and Blooie and Cocky Doodle strips that originally appeared in Buster. At this stage in Cheeky Weekly's history, the BS&B/CD strips were used when a single page was devoted to the cartoons; when space was available for a 2-page cartoon, Warner Brothers characters were employed. In the following 6 editions the location in question was home to the second page of the animated element of the film show...

Date	Details
19-Nov-77	Wile E Coyote 2/2 'Dear Diary'
26-Nov-77	Henery Hawk (first appearance) 2/2 'Little Orphan Henery'
03-Dec-77	Wile E Coyote 2/2 'Poll Fault'
10-Dec-77	Henery Hawk 2/2 'A Peachy Idea'
17-Dec-77	Wile E Coyote 2/2 'Rage In A Cage'
24-Dec-77	Daffy Duck (first appearance) 2/2 'Daffy's Diner'

Due to the slightly different configuration of the following week's Christmas issue, Saturday was allocated to page 26, but 7 days later something of a marathon run of WB cartoons commenced...

Date	Details
07-Jan-78	Wile E Coyote (final appearance) 2/2 'Extra Long Division'
14-Jan-78	Tweety (single appearance) 2/2
21-Jan-78	Tweety and Sylvester (first appearance) 2/2
28-Jan-78	Daffy Duck 2/2 'Ducking Out'
04-Feb-78	Henery Hawk (final appearance) 1/2 'The Flower Pot'
11-Feb-78	Daffy Duck 1/2 'Lucky Break'
18-Feb-78	Road Runner (first appearance) 2/2 'Ungrateful Gratitude'
25-Feb-78	Road Runner 1/2 'A Bird in Hand'
04-Mar-78	Tweety and Sylvester 1/2 'Too Many Grannies'
11-Mar-78	Daffy Duck (final appearance) 1/2 'Snack Time'
18-Mar-78	Road Runner 1/2 'The Lucky Charms'
25-Mar-78	Tweety and Sylvester 1/2 'Showdown at Granny's'
01-Apr-78	Road Runner 1/2 'The Plant Plot'
08-Apr-78	Tweety and Sylvester 1/2 'A Gift For Granny'
15-Apr-78	Road Runner 1/2 'The Cool Caper'
22-Apr-78	Tweety and Sylvester 1/2 'A Bird Can Fly But Can A Fly Bird'
29-Apr-78	Road Runner 1/2 'Coyote Catcher'
06-May-78	Tweety and Sylvester 1/2 'Pet Getter'
13-May-78	Road Runner 1/2 'Flypaper Caper'
20-May-78	Tweety and Sylvester 1/2 'All Duded Up'
27-May-78	Road Runner 1/2 'Thunder Blunder'
03-Jun-78	Road Runner (final appearance) 1/2 'Trombone Boo Boo'

Saturday then returned to page 26, but the following issue saw an ad for Woodcraft Village, a venture into the toy market by safety match manufacturers Bryant & May, occupy the subject location.

In the 24 June 1978 edition, Saturday resumed occupation of page 26, beginning a 3-week run, ended in the 22 July 1978 issue by a page advertising two of IPC's 1978 Specials - The Cheeky Summer Special and Whoopee Holiday Special.

A week later page 26 hosted an ad placed by Birds Eye who were running a cunning promotion whereby consumers of their tubs of Mousse were invited to send in 8 lids and receive a 'Mousse Shoot', which was a device designed to fire those very same lids 'high into the sky'. 2 lids were supplied with the Mousse Shoot, but kids applying for the offer were thus 6 lids down on the deal. If the launcher was as powerful as the ad suggests, the lids supplied would soon be lost, requiring the consumption of more Mousse in order to provide replacement ammo for the device.

A week later Tweety and Sylvester began what was to be a 7-week run on page 26, but in the following edition Hickory Dickory Doc, a reprinted one-off strip from Cor!!, was for some reason employed to represent the cartoon segment of Saturday's picture show.

The bird vs cat feuding was restored to page 26 in the ensuing issue as Tweety and his lisping nemesis returned. In the 30 September 1978 comic, Saturday resumed occupancy for what was to be a 5-week residency, interrupted by Paddywack in the 04 November 1978 edition. Saturday then moved back in for 3 issues

In a surprise move, the 02 December 1978 issue saw the final episode of The Terrible Trail to Taggart's Treasure come to rest in the site under review, but a week later Saturday made its final appearance on page 26, bringing to 16 the number of times it occupied that spot, making Saturday the third most frequent feature to occupy that location.

After its 3 week absence, Cheeky Weekly returned with the issue cover dated 06 January 1979, in which the first episode of Eagle Eye (another reprint, this time sourced from Shiver and Shake) fetched up on page 26. Eagle Eye was in fact lucky enough to remain in the same location for the entirety of its 8-week run. In the edition following the conclusion of Eagle Eye, another reprinted adventure strip, again retrieved from the Shiver and Shake archives, commenced on page 26. This time it was Menace of The Alpha Man. The titular letter-obsessed felon was, like Eagle Eye, given the honour of remaining in the same location for the whole of his nefarious escapade, making his strip the second most regular page 26 occupant, numbering 18 issues.

Cheeky Weekly's affluent stalwart Mustapha Million made his single visit to page 26 in the following 'new look' issue dated 07 July 1979, after which the father and son feuding of Why, Dad,Why? made a similarly unique sojourn in the same location.

In the comic dated 21 July 1979 Cheeky's Friday antics were related on page 26, as they were in the ensuing 9 editions. Mystery Boy then moved in for a single week, after which Friday returned for 2 issues.

Disaster Des then unleashed his customary mayhem in the subject location (the only time he appeared on page 26), and Friday then moved back for 2 weeks. The 03 November 1979 comic saw another feature make a single page 26 appearance; this time it was Thursday.

The following week Friday returned for what was to be a 10-week residency, after which it was the turn of reader-participation-gagfest Joke-Box Jury to occupy the subject location for a single time.

Friday then returned to page 26 for Cheeky Weekly's final 2 issues, bringing the total number of times it appeared there to 25 and making it the most regularly-featured occupant of the site under review.

Count of Elements (or distinct combinations thereof) appearing on Page 26

Elements	Total
Friday	25
Menace of the Alpha Man 1/2	18
Saturday 1/2	15
Tweety and Sylvester 1/2	13
Eagle Eye 1/2	8
Road Runner 1/2	8
Wile E Coyote 2/2	4
Bam Splat and Blooie\Cocky Doodle	2
Daffy Duck 1/2	2
Daffy Duck 2/2	2
Henery Hawk 2/2	2
Tweety and Sylvester 2/2	2
Advertisement: Birds Eye Mousse	1
Advertisement: IPC\Advertisement: IPC	1
Advertisement: Woodcraft Village	1
Disaster Des	1
Henery Hawk 1/2	1
Hickory Dickory Doc 1/2	1
Joke-Box Jury 1/2	1
Mustapha Million 1/2	1
Mystery Boy	1
Paddywack	1
Road Runner 2/2	1
Saturday	1
The Terrible Trail to Taggart's Treasure 1/2	1
Thursday	1
Tweety 2/2	1
Why, Dad, Why?	1