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| Art: Frank McDiarmid |
Posh Claude makes his sixth cover
appearance this week, as the butt of Cheeky's morning mirthmaking.
Then it's the turn of front page veteran Manhole Man, appearing on
the cover for the fifteenth time, to engage in pachyderm punnery with
our toothy pal. Unfortunately, we can't read the full name of
Cheeky's sunken sidekick's newspaper. The Sunday Subterranean? Sunday
Sewer Servicer? MM's choice of Sunday reading is revealed on the cover of Cheeky Weekly dated 09 June 1979.
This edition coincides with week 6 of
IPC's Star Guest promotion, and the current visitor (Cheeky's
erstwhile Krazy co-star, now of Whizzer and Chips, the 12½ p Buytonic Boy) fetches up in the Cheeky Weekly section rather than the
Mystery Comic as it has on 3 previous occasions. This week's Star
Guest strip, including a brief introduction which fails to expand on
the source of the pick-me-up powered Steve Ford's extraordinary
abilities beyond what must be to the uninitiated, confusing,
references to his Buytonic feats, can be seen here.
In the final panel on the Tuesday page, we witness one comedy superstar(?) paying homage to another as, in a nice touch by Frank McDiarmid, Cheeky gives us his creditable impersonation of Julius Henry Marx.
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid |
On Wednesday, thanks to the mesmeric influence
of Hypno-Tessa, we get a glimpse of that most rare of Krazy Town events
– a smiling Gloomy Glad (as can be seen here).
Later the same day Cheeky has an
encounter with Louise who is planning to shred what she refers to as
an “old comic”, and thus fashion some hair rollers. Our toothy pal realises that the funny paper in question is actually the latest
Mystery Comic, so rescues it from such an ignominious fate.
There is a reciprocal, recursive comic
appearance on the mysterious title's cover, as Tub happens upon a
comic-within-a-comic-within-a-comic issue of Cheeky Weekly just prior
to his fateful brush with yet another great comedy icon, that slapstick staple - the banana skin.
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| Tub art: Nigel Edwards Page surround: Ed McHenry |
A full page ad within the Mystery Comic
section whets readers' thirsts with a reminder that in 2 weeks, Cheeky
Weekly will carry a free sachet of Kellogg's Two Shakes milkshake
mix (as first publicised 2 weeks ago). The staggered nature of this promotion means those unwilling to
wait can slake their craving now, as a packet of said raspberry-flavoured powder is affixed to
the cover of this week's Whoopee! which is (not coincidentally) also
presenting the first part of the Sports and Games Spotter Book.
We meet Mustapha Million's cousin Ahmed
in this week's tale of the middle-eastern moneybags. Mustapha's mate
Jimmy remains stoic despite losing his bike at the end of the
story.
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| Art: Joe McCaffrey |
Disaster Des is absent from this week's
Mystery Comic, and the apparent reason is revealed later on the
Chit-Chat page...
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| Des and Bernie would meet in the 1982 Cheeky Annual |
IPC's latest entrant in the same category of comic as Cheeky Weekly (humour/adventure aimed at boys and girls), Jackpot, features on an ad occupying the whole of page 22. The similarities between the two titles didn't
end there – both featured characters who had originated in earlier
comics. In the case of Jackpot the inductee was inveterate participant in games of chance Jack Pott, who had first appeared in Cor!! although he didn't feature as
prominently in Jackpot as Cheeky did in his own comic - note Jack is absent from this ad.
Despite Krazy's demise just over a year before this issue of Cheeky Weekly, IPC continued to publish Krazy Annuals and Holiday Specials.
Phantoms of failed IPC titles in the form of Specials and
Annuals would often manifest themselves on newsagents' shelves for some
years after the weekly version had expired. The spectral metaphor is
apt because these publications were often pale shades of the
original comics, featuring ghosted art and strips exhumed from the catacombs of IPC in
the form of reprints. Thus it was no surprise to readers of this copy of Cheeky Weekly to find an ad for the 1979 Krazy Holiday Special on page 29. Sharing the same location was news
of that year's Frankie Stein Holiday Special. This wasn't a case of Special based on a resurrected title - Frankie was still appearing in Whoopee! at the time and there was never a Frankie Stein comic.
As has become customary in recent weeks, the comic concludes with a Burpo Special, and this episode echoes Tub's unfortunate experience a few pages earlier, as Teacher suffers a similarly slippery scene.
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| Art: Mike Lacey |
There's pure Frank McDiarmid art from Sunday to Saturday in this issue, with Mike Lacey doing the honours on the Burpo Special.
| Cheeky Weekly | Cover Date: 05-May-1979, Issue 78 of 117 |
| Page | Details |
| 1 | Cheeky's Week - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 2 | Sunday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 3 | 6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox |
| 4 | 6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox |
| 5 | 6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox |
| 6 | Monday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 7 | Calculator Kid - Art Terry Bave |
| 8 | Ad: Palitoy 'Pippa' 3 of 4 |
| 9 | Tuesday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 10 | Paddywack - Art Jack Clayton |
| 11 | Star Guest 'Buytonic Boy' - Art Robert Nixon (single art on feature) |
| 12 | Wednesday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 13 | Tub 'Mystery Comic' 27 of 34 - Art Nigel Edwards |
| 14 | Mystery Boy reprint from Whizzer and Chips 'Mystery Comic' 29 of 37 - Art John Richardson |
| 15 | Ad: IPC 'Free milkshake promo' 2 of 3 |
| 16 | Elephant On The Run 'Mystery Comic' 27 of 34 - Art Robert Nixon |
| 17 | Elephant On The Run 'Mystery Comic' 27 of 34 - Art Robert Nixon |
| 18 | Mustapha Million 'Mystery Comic' 27 of 34 - Art Joe McCaffrey |
| 19 | Mustapha Million 'Mystery Comic' 27 of 34 - Art Joe McCaffrey |
| 20 | Why, Dad, Why? 'Mystery Comic' 22 of 28 - Art John K. Geering |
| 21 | Joke-Box Jury\Ad: North Pacific Flyers |
| 22 | Ad: IPC 'Jackpot' 1 of 7 |
| 23 | Thursday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 24 | Skateboard Squad - Art Jimmy Hansen |
| 25 | Friday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 26 | Menace of the Alpha Man reprint from Shiver and Shake - Art Eric Bradbury |
| 27 | Menace of the Alpha Man reprint from Shiver and Shake - Art Eric Bradbury |
| 28 | Chit-Chat |
| 29 | Ad: IPC 'Krazy Holiday Special' 2 of 4 Ad: 'Frankie Stein Holiday Special' 1 of 3 |
| 30 | Saturday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 31 | Saturday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 32 | The Burpo Special 'Teacher' - Art Mike Lacey |
Cheeky's Week Artists Cover Date 05-May-1979
| Artist | Elements |
| Frank McDiarmid | 9 |
| Mike Lacey | 1 |
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