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.
Just a week after suffering
a raid by Toy Boy, Mustapha had his
revenge. However, rather than a direct retaliation at the toy-loving tyke, our
moneyed mate played a more subtle game and picked another strip from the fertile mind of Terry Bave, the stars of which didn’t smell a rat. This raid is not to
be sneezed at - can you spot our ex-Cheeky Weekly chum?
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Whizzer and Chips 13 December 1986
Art: Terry Bave |
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This is an unusual raid as Mustapha's probing digit seems to influence development of the plot - normally the interloper is seen but has no effect on the events unfolding in the strip.
More raiding fun soon!
aaaaacccchhhhoooo! Nice raid has you said influanced the plot..
ReplyDeleteMustapha nose a thing or two about raiding.
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