The Whizzer and Chips Years - Calculator Kid

The first instalment of this The Whizzer and Chips Years series examined the very brief history of Stage School in Whizzer and Chips. This second part will focus on another of the three features that originated in Cheeky Weekly and survived Whoopee’s merge with Whizzer and Chips.

Calculator Kid (a strip relating the adventures of Charlie Counter, owner of a sentient pocket calculator) made its debut in Cheeky Weekly’s 37^th issue, dated 01 July 1978, and appeared in a total of 78 editions before the comic’s February 1980 cancellation. Calculator Kid was among the features to continue in the pages of Whoopee!/Whoopee, where the strip enjoyed a 259-issue run, along the way spawning a calculator-based puzzle spinoff named Calculator Corner, prior to Whoopee’s own demise in March 1985.

In the first combined issue of Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee, Calculator Kid’s strip was allocated a spot on page 15, locating it within the Chips section of the comic. Readers who were unfamiliar with the Calculator Kid premise were left to work out what was going on as the script progressed, but no doubt would have understood the situation by the point at which proceedings concluded with Calc’s ‘as calculated!’ catchphrase. However, Calculator Kid’s real name was not revealed. The script doesn’t entirely make sense as it appears that the choice of insults hurled at the Krazy Town populace by our young hero is left to Charlie, but maybe Calc did in fact direct his owner as to the requisite ruderies (either verbally or by some type of previously-undemonstrated thought control), but this was left out either for reasons of brevity or, if the latter, for being too disturbing. Terry Bave, who created the feature and who drew all 78 CK episodes that featured in Cheeky Weekly plus a further 259 in Whoopee, continued to illustrate the strip when it transferred into Whizzer and Chips. On this first Whizzer and Chips outing, Calculator Kid shares a page with Calculator Corner, which occupies the bottom row, and is drawn by Jack Oliver, who was the puzzle feature’s regular artist during its Whoopee run.

Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee
06 April 1985

Charlie’s first name was mentioned in the following issue, and a week later readers who hadn’t previously been aware of the strip were introduced to Charlie’s mum and extravagantly-moustachioed dad.

 

The introductory episode utilised a version of the Calculator Kid title banner which had been in employed in Whoopee since the 02 July 1983 edition, although condensed into the top left of the page rather than spanning its width as had been the case previously. However, the following week a new title banner was introduced, showing Charlie beaming at Calc, who was embedded in the 'o' of the word Calculator (see above). The 'embedded' title banner featured in 9 issues, the final occasion being 15 June 1985. In the issues dated 27 April and 22 June 1985, the page-spanning version of the title as featured in the 06 April 1985 edition returned.

After an unbroken 12-issue run of original Calculator Kid stories, 11 of which were accompanied by Calculator Corner (the exception being 01 June 1985, in which Calculator Corner was supplanted by a bottom-row ad for the forthcoming free Weetabix Badge), Whizzer and Chips dated 29 June 1985 saw the commencement of reprints of CK strips which had previously appeared in Cheeky Weekly. The tale chosen to kick off the recycled CK series was sourced from Cheeky Weekly dated 14 April 1979, the 38th CK episode in the series, and the reprints didn’t follow the original sequence (see table below).

The 18 May 1985 edition was the first in which Calculator Kid mounted a Chip-ite ‘raid’ into the Whizzer section of the comic, invading the page occupied by the rubbery rascal Odd-Ball. The issue dated 08 June 1985 was the first in which Calculator Kid was subject to a Whizz-kid raid when Odd-Ball and Nobby undertook a retaliatory incursion.

Despite lapsing into reprints, Calculator Kid was subject to a raid by the plaything-obsessed Toy Boy in Whizzer and Chips dated 06 July 1985, and was invaded by Odd-Ball again in the 14 September 1985 edition, but in the same comic our curiously-coiffed pal mounted his own raid against the retail father and son team of Store Wars. The issue dated 23 November 1985 saw teeny terror Sweeny Toddler undertaking no less than 3 cross-border incursions into Chips, one of which targeted Calculator Kid. In the comic dated 15 February 1986, Lazy Bones summoned enough energy to infiltrate the CK page. Odd-Ball seems to have had some sort of resentment against the kid-and-calculator duo, as they suffered another raid by the alien sphere in W&C dated 15 March 1986. CK took the initiative in the 29 March 1986 comic and infiltrated Master P Brain's adventure. Animalad and Lazy Bones trespassed on CK territory in the 12 April and 31 May 1986 issues respectively.

Calculator Kid had no further involvement in raids, and the feature's last W&C appearance occurred in the issue dated 26 July 1986 (the comic launched a 'new look' the following week), with a reprint that originally featured in the 05 May 1979 issue of Cheeky Weekly (40th in the CW run). Actually, the reprint only contained half the original page (the strip shared the page with an ad for the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game) but, with the judicious addition of Calc's 'as calculated' to the final panel, readers of the truncated version wouldn't have suspected they weren't getting the full story. A total of 50 reprints were published, but the feature was absent from 7 issues during the period in which recycled material was being used.

Cheeky Weekly 05 May 1979
When reprinted in W&C, the strip ended
at the end of row 2...

Since Calculator Corner wasn’t created until after Cheeky Weekly had been cancelled, all of the reprint strips occupied a full page, and subsequently Calculator Corner was divorced from CK, although its continuation was somewhat sporadic, featuring in a further 8 issues until its final Whizzer and Chips outing in the 22 February 1986 edition. Of those final 8 appearances, 4 shared a page with the literary larks of Bookworm, 3 were on the concluding page of Krazy Gang adventures and 1 was shared with miniscule mirthster Sammy Shrink. Surprisingly, although the Calculator Kid strips printed effective from the 29 June 1985 edition had been reprints, Calculator Corner continued to present original puzzles up to and including its final instalment, testament to the fertile mind of Jack Oliver.

Charlie and Calc also made some appearances outside of their own features. The issues of Whizzer and Chips dated 03 to 17 May 1986 carried a puzzle strip entitled Whizz-kids Prize Mystery. Readers were invited to deduce which Chip-ite had stolen the flag from outside the Whizz-kids' gang hut. Charlie and Calc were among the suspects, and appeared in all 3 puzzle episodes, with Calc assisting chief Whizz-kid Sid to eliminate Charlie from his investigations in the second instalment.

Whizzer and Chips 10 May 1986 (as is extract below). Art: Bob Hill

Whizzer and Chips 17 May 1986. Having eliminated Charlie and Calc, Sid's attention turns to Mustapha Million. Bob Hill again.
Don't worry, Charlie was seen holding Calc again in the final panel.

Sid was rather trusting of Calc and Charlie, simply taking the word of the electronic marvel and his human handler, while demanding no evidence of their innocence (no doubt Calc planned that his tortuous poser would discombobulate Sid). It was revealed in the comic dated 31 May 1986 that the flag-filching fiend was... SPOILER ALERT... Town Tarzan.

A character who looked rather similar to Charlie was featured in the Sammy Shrink episode dated 14 February 1987. Sammy and CK of course shared the same artist, Terry Bave. Either there is a mistake as the story opens - the arrow indicating 'Uncle Bob' is actually pointing at Sammy's dad, or maybe the editor felt that dad's behaviour in denying his diminutive offspring a cake was too cruel for a father so added the caption.

Whizzer and Chips 14 February 1987
Art: Terry Bave

Overcome by a wave of nostalgia, reader Kamran Qureshi of Harrow submitted a request for the return of old Chips characters which was printed on the Shiner's Chip-ites page in Whizzer and Chips dated 09 January 1988. Although the accompanying illustration by Jack Oliver showed Shiner dusting down Charlie and Calc, Calculator Kid sadly didn't get another outing.

 

Unlike some characters, Calculator Kid and Calculator Corner remained loyal to Chips throughout their Whizzer and Chips runs.

Terry Bave applied Charlie Counter's distinctive hairstyle to a new character which he introduced in Whizzer and Chips dated 12 August 1989 - Tarman of the Jungle.

Whizzer and Chips 12 August 1989

 

The table below lists all the issues of Whizzer and Chips between the first and the final appearances of Calculator Kid. An entry in the REPRINT? column shows the origin of the CK strip, if its Whizzer and Chips appearance was a reprint. A blank entry in the CALCULATOR KID column means CK was absent that week. The CALCULATOR CORNER column shows all the appearances of Calculator Corner in the same period (CC came to an end before CK), and again, if the CC column entry is blank it signifies the absence of the puzzle feature that week. None of the Calculator Corners were reprints.

TITLE	DATE	CALCULATOR KID	REPRINT?	CALCULATOR CORNER
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	06-Apr-1985	Calculator Kid		Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	13-Apr-1985	Calculator Kid		Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	20-Apr-1985	Calculator Kid		Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	27-Apr-1985	Calculator Kid		Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	04-May-1985	Calculator Kid		Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	11-May-1985	Calculator Kid		Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	18-May-1985	Calculator Kid		Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	25-May-1985	Calculator Kid		Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	01-Jun-1985	Calculator Kid
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	08-Jun-1985	Calculator Kid		Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	15-Jun-1985	Calculator Kid		Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	22-Jun-1985	Calculator Kid		Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	29-Jun-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 14-Apr-1979
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	06-Jul-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 31-Mar-1979
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	13-Jul-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 17-Mar-1979
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	20-Jul-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 26-Aug-1978	Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	27-Jul-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 29-Jul-1978	Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	03-Aug-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 25-Aug-1979
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	10-Aug-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 23-Jun-1979
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	17-Aug-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 04-Aug-1979
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	24-Aug-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 20-Oct-1979
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	31-Aug-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 29-Sep-1979
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	07-Sep-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 14-Jul-1979	Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	14-Sep-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 15-Sep-1979
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	21-Sep-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 24-Mar-1979
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	28-Sep-1985
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	05-Oct-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 08-Jul-1978
Whizzer and Chips now including Whoopee	12-Oct-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 21-Jul-1979
Whizzer and Chips	19-Oct-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 11-Nov-1978	Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips	26-Oct-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 27-Jan-1979	Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips	02-Nov-1985
Whizzer and Chips	09-Nov-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 27-Oct-1979	Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips	16-Nov-1985
Whizzer and Chips	23-Nov-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 22-Jul-1978
Whizzer and Chips	30-Nov-1985
Whizzer and Chips	07-Dec-1985
Whizzer and Chips	14-Dec-1985
Whizzer and Chips	21-Dec-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 04-Nov-1978
Whizzer and Chips	28-Dec-1985	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 29-Dec-1979
Whizzer and Chips	04-Jan-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 20-Jan-1979
Whizzer and Chips	11-Jan-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 23-Sep-1978
Whizzer and Chips	18-Jan-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 13-Oct-1979	Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips	25-Jan-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 19-May-1979
Whizzer and Chips	01-Feb-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 25-Nov-1978
Whizzer and Chips	08-Feb-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 02-Jun-1979
Whizzer and Chips	15-Feb-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 28-Oct-1978
Whizzer and Chips	22-Feb-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 10-Feb-1979	Calculator Corner
Whizzer and Chips	01-Mar-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 25-Aug-1979
Whizzer and Chips	08-Mar-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 03-Mar-1979
Whizzer and Chips	15-Mar-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 06-Jan-1979
Whizzer and Chips	22-Mar-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 18-Nov-1978
Whizzer and Chips	29-Mar-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 30-Jun-1979
Whizzer and Chips	05-Apr-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 19-Aug-1978
Whizzer and Chips	12-Apr-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 03-Feb-1979
Whizzer and Chips	19-Apr-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 11-Aug-1979
Whizzer and Chips	26-Apr-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 18-Aug-1979
Whizzer and Chips	03-May-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 16-Jun-1979
Whizzer and Chips	10-May-1986
Whizzer and Chips	17-May-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 05-Aug-1978
Whizzer and Chips	24-May-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 15-Jul-1978
Whizzer and Chips	31-May-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 28-Jul-1979
Whizzer and Chips	07-Jun-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 30-Sep-1978
Whizzer and Chips	14-Jun-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 26-Jan-1980
Whizzer and Chips	21-Jun-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 03-Nov-1979
Whizzer and Chips	28-Jun-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 15-Dec-1979
Whizzer and Chips	05-Jul-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 02-Feb-1980
Whizzer and Chips	12-Jul-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 16-Sep-1978
Whizzer and Chips	19-Jul-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 07-Oct-1978
Whizzer and Chips	26-Jul-1986	Calculator Kid	Cheeky Weekly 05-May-1979

 

 

The FCFC spend a week with Cheeky

In the latest episode of the Funny Comics Fan Club podcast, Mark Hibbett and John Dredge enthuse about the 26 August 1978 issue of Cheeky Weekly. Both our hosts have fond memories of the title (John used to have it on regular order!), and on returning to it are still impressed by the gag-packed nature of the comic and the lively artwork. There's also some excellent research into the origin of that issue's Tweety and Sylvester strip.

Funny Comics Fan Club is available on all the usual podcast platforms.

Whizzer and Chips - The Cheeky Raids Part 62

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.

The previous post in this series focused on Whizzer and Chips dated 10 March 1990, and I have been able to eliminate the two following editions from being relevant to documentation here as neither featured ex-Cheeky Weekly characters as raider or raided.

Thus we arrive at Whizzer and Chips' 31 March 1990 edition, and I'm able to report that not only have I identified raiders into both Whizzer and Chips (this has not always been the case in recent months), but Mustapha Million is one of those involved.

Fuss Pot is the Chip-ite intruder into Whizzer. Readers of my previous post will be aware that Fuss pot traversed the Whizzer/Chips boundary on occasion, but she had been firmly ensconced within Chips (except when mounting cross-border raids) since the 22 October 1998 issue. The fastidious female perpetrated a raid on Sweeny Toddler in the 31 March 1990 comic. Mustapha Million suffered an interloper in the same issue. Can you spot the trespasser? Scroll down the learn the identity of the iniquitous invader.

 

Art: Frank McDiarmid

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, it's the dentally deficient Sweet-Tooth, a character mostly associated with Whizzer, but who on occasion crossed the divide into Chips, although in this particular issue the confectionery consuming cove's page was lodged inside Whizzer territory on page 25.

I have identified raiders and raided in the 4 issues published after that examined above (i.e. up to and including the edition cover-dated 28 April 1990), and none of those raids are Cheeky-related. This means that this is the final post in this series, since the 28 April 1990 edition of Whizzer and Chips was the last to include a raid, at least in the classic sense. The following week the comic was reduced from 32 to 24 pages and the concept of  Whizzer and Chips being '2 comics in one' was dropped (although the title remained the same), so there was no longer a defined Whizzer or Chips section.

Instead of identifying Whizz-kids raiding Chip-ites and vice versa, commencing with the 05 May 1990 issue, readers were challenged to search the whole comic for a cameo appearance by Little Devil, whose feature had been appearing in Whizzer and Chips since the issue dated 06 January 1990 (although I suspect this was a run of reprints, so the satanic scamp could well have been featured earlier). As of the 05 May 1990 edition, the rather oddly worded message 'Can you find Little Devil on one of these pages?' appeared at the foot of each LD episode. The answer to this question would of course be 'Yes, in the strip above'. Readers should instead have been asked 'Can you find Little Devil on another page?'. For his inaugural infernal intrusion, Little Devil demonically possessed Memory Banks.

Whizzer and Chips 05 May 1990
Art: Murray Ball (I think)

Whizzer and Chips 05 May 1990
Art: Mark Bennington

The diminutive demon's strip made its final appearance in the issue dated 06 October 1990, just 3 short of the comic's 27 October 1990 ultimate edition. 23 issues were published between 05 May 1990 and 06 October 1990 (inclusive), but Little Devil's strip was absent from the comic dated 26 May 1990 and it would seem that the obtrusive ogre didn't impose himself on any of the other pages that week. I have been able to locate the inimitable imp in 20 of the issues in which he supposedly appeared on other pages (09 June and 22 September being the editions in which LD has evaded my searches), and I can report that on one occasion, in the 08 September 1990 comic, the hell-spawned character invaded Mustapha Million's page. In that episode, Mustapha travels to Australia with a sack of cash in order to persuade a number of TV soap stars who have departed Neighbours to return to their roles in the popular antipodean drama.

Whizzer and Chips 08 September 1990. Art: Frank McDiarmid

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
01 June 1985	Animalad Mustapha Million	The Krazy Gang (Cheeky) Boy Boss
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	Odd-Ball Calculator Kid	Calculator Kid Store Wars
05 October 1985	Mustapha Million	Animalad
19 October 1985	Odd-Ball	Mustapha Million
23 November 1985	Sweeny Toddler Sweeny Toddler Sweeny Toddler	Calculator Kid The Krazy Gang (Cheeky) Mustapha Million
18 January 1986	Mustapha Million	Super Steve
25 January 1986	Odd-Ball Cheeky	Mustapha Million Odd-Ball
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	Mustapha Million Sweeny Toddler	Bobby's Ghoul Mustapha Million
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
24 February 1990 - Joker is the Whizz-kid raider into Chips, but I have been unable to identify any raider into Whizzer
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
31 March 1990	Sweet-Tooth	Mustapha Million
28 April 1990 The final 32-page edition. The concept of a Whizzer and a Chips section is dropped from the subsequent 24-page issues, and consequently there are no further raids (although the Little Devil character can often be found on another character's page).	No Cheeky-related raid this issue	No Cheeky-related raid this issue

Whizz-ites vs Chip-kids - Part 8

This is another post in the series that sees me ruthlessly unmasking the traitorous characters who posed as both Whizz-kids and Chip-ites during their appearances in Whizzer and Chips. My investigation covers Whizzer and Chips' weekly editions dated 06 April 1985 to 28 April 1990. For the reasons why, see the first post in this series.

The confectionary-obsessed Sweet-Tooth was a true stalwart of Whizzer and Chips. According to Wikipedia, the chocolate-chomping chap made his debut in that title in 1973. Focusing on the period covered by this series of posts, the sweet-scoffing scallywag was absent from just 9 issues between those dated 06 April 1985 and 28 April 1990's final 32-page edition. For the remainder of Whizzer and Chips' run, the comic was reduced to 24 pages and Sweet-Tooth's feature was dropped from the truncated issues (although following the cancellation of Whizzer and Chips he did return in the pages of Buster).

Of Sweet-Tooth's 256 blood-sugar-elevating adventures in Whizzer and Chips dated between 06 April 1985 and 28 April 1990, 254 were located within the Whizzer section. However, the glucose guzzler made 2 forays into Chips; 13 May 1989 (a 'colour' adventure on page 23) and 01 July 1989 (page 19). Sweet-Tooth's temporary defections were not acknowledged in the comic.

Whizzer and Chips 13 May 1989; Sweet-Tooth slips into Chips
Art: Trevor Metcalfe

Barry Glennard's final strip in his run of illustrating Sweet-Tooth appeared in the 08 April 1989 edition of Whizzer and Chips, so the subsequent episodes, including the one shown above, were no doubt reprints.

The Roll of Dishonour

Beaky

Beat Your Neighbour

Boy Boss

COCOA

Paws, and Claws v Caws

Lazy Bones

Fuss Pot

Sweet-Tooth