Cheeky Weekly cover date 10 Dec 1977

Baby Burpo is featured on the cover this week, with a reference to Cheeky's regular Wednesday night fright, resulting this issue from a Creepy Sleepy Tale of an ancient Egyptian mummy.

In the What's New, Kids advertising feature, Cheeky introduces two mechanical characters from a new film.  Their names are R2D2 and C3PO, and the film is apparently called Star Wars.  Wonder if it will prove popular.

Page 30 sees Cheeky present a coupon soliciting readers' views on Cheeky Weekly.  Under a banner making the sinister claim that 'We have ways of making you talk', the coupon asks readers to rank the non-Cheeky's Week features, and to comment on which of Cheeky's pals they like and dislike. The strip that accompanies this feature uses a crude rehash of a Reg Parlett Mustapha Million panel from the first issue of Cheeky Weekly, in what looks to me like a cut-and-paste job.

There are six pure Frank McDiarmid pages this week, plus the three-panel conclusion of Wednesday.

Two characters make their debut this week.  School gardener Dan-Dan the Lavender Man makes his first compost-encrusted Cheeky Weekly appearance on Sunday, along with Milkie's assistant who, having served his purpose in setting up a joke with the punchline 'one's a milk roundsman and the other's a round milkman', is never seen again.

A notable feature to debut this week is Joke-Box Jury.

Cheeky Weekly	Cover Date: 10-Dec-1977, Issue 8 of 117
Page	Details
1	Cover Feature 'Creepy Sleepy Tale' 1 of 3 - Art Frank McDiarmid\What a Cheek - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
2	Sunday - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
3	Skateboard Squad - Art Jimmy Hansen
4	Sunday evening - Art Frank McDiarmid
5	James Bold 'Fangs of Fear' 8 of 11 - Art Lopez
6	James Bold 'Fangs of Fear' 8 of 11 - Art Lopez
7	Monday - Art Frank McDiarmid
8	6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
9	6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
10	6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
11	Tuesday - Art Frank McDiarmid
12	Old Comic reprint from TV Fun 'Mick and Montmorency' 1 of 2
13	Tuesday - Art Frank McDiarmid\Doug's Doodle - Art Terry Bave
14	Joke-Box Jury (first appearance)
15	Wednesday - Art Frank McDiarmid
16	Creepy Sleepy Tale - Art Keith Reynolds (first art on feature)
17	Creepy Sleepy Tale - Art Keith Reynolds (first art on feature)\Wednesday (conclusion) - Art Frank McDiarmid
18	What's New, Kids
19	Thursday - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
20	Home Movie 'When Knights Were Bold' - Art Jack Clayton
21	Friday - Art Frank McDiarmid
22	Mustapha Million - Art Reg Parlett
23	Mustapha Million - Art Reg Parlett
24	Saturday - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
25	Henery Hawk 'A Peachy Idea'
26	Henery Hawk 'A Peachy Idea'
27	Interval - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
28	Space Family Robinson 'Dead End' - Art John Richardson
29	Space Family Robinson 'Dead End' - Art John Richardson
30	Saturday - Art Cut and Paste
31	Diary - Art Jim Petrie
32	Diary - Art Jim Petrie