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 next raid on our middle eastern mate was perpetrated in Whizzer and Chips dated 06 December 1986. Can you spot the impudent intruder? Scroll down to discover the identity of the infiltrator...
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Whizzer and Chips 06 December 1986
Art: Barry Glennard |
Yes, it's the plaything-obsessed Whizzer whippersnapper, Toy Boy. The image of him used in the panel directly above is a rather vintage one - the version of Toy Boy pasted into the Mustapha strip is the one that readers were used to seeing in the comic at the time.
The lazy interloper couldn't even think of an original phrase with which to announce his culpability - the contents of his speech balloon are identical (except for a slight horizontal squeeze) to those used by Winnie the Royal Nag on the
previous occasion on which Mustapha fell victim to a raid.
More raiding fun soon!
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