Cheeky’s Sunday paper round originally included a regular delivery
to the creepy house, home to an assortment of ghastly ghouls and
fearsome phantoms. On Sunday in the 28 January 1978 edition of his
comic, the toothy funster encountered an un-named, damp ghost in the garden of said eerie location.
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid pencils |
A similar gag appeared three weeks later, but that time the haunted laundry didn't take on a ghostly aspect.
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| Cheeky Weekly 18 February 1978 Art: Frank McDiarmid |
Our
grinning hero witnessed other phantoms at the scary address, none of whom
resembled the wraith we would later come to know as Spook.
On his second named appearance the funny phantom emerged from the cake which Cheeky had just won from Baker’s Boy, and subsequent humorous hauntings saw the silly spectre emerge from, among other things, Knock-Knock Door’s letter box, Dr Braincell’s medical case, Gloomy Glad’s ever-looming black cloud and the barrel of Six Gun Sam’s toy gun.
Spook appeared on 2 pages in each of the comics dated 25 August, 24 November (including his only front cover appearance) and 15 December 1979.
The posthumous punster's final Cheeky Weekly manifestation was in the last issue.
Cheeky and Snail were terrified by Krazy Town's ghoulish gagster in 23 issues (24 if we consider the anonymous ghost in the 28 January 1978 comic to be the same silly spirit). Spook never haunted the pages of Krazy.
Count of elements by artist
The
residents of the creepy house evidently cancelled their Sunday
newspaper order soon after Cheeky Weekly dated 12 August 1978, as
after that issue our toothy pal made no more visits to the scary
site.
Following the demise of the Creepy Sleepy Tales in the 26 August 1978 edition, Krazy Town was then largely free from supernatural events until Spook
first announced himself while appearing from a drain in Cheeky Weekly
dated 21 July 1979. His joke was accompanied by a terrifying ‘Hee-aaar!
Hee-aaar!’, but in later appearances the gags from beyond the grave
were delivered with a ‘Hee-uuur! Hee-uuur!’.
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| Spook's debut Art: Frank McDiarmid pencils |
On his second named appearance the funny phantom emerged from the cake which Cheeky had just won from Baker’s Boy, and subsequent humorous hauntings saw the silly spectre emerge from, among other things, Knock-Knock Door’s letter box, Dr Braincell’s medical case, Gloomy Glad’s ever-looming black cloud and the barrel of Six Gun Sam’s toy gun.
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| Art: ghosted by Dick Millington |
Spook appeared on 2 pages in each of the comics dated 25 August, 24 November (including his only front cover appearance) and 15 December 1979.
The posthumous punster's final Cheeky Weekly manifestation was in the last issue.
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| Spook was still haunting the drains (although readers never saw an encounter between him and Manhole Man down there) in the last issue of Cheeky Weekly. Art: Frank McDiarmid |
Cheeky and Snail were terrified by Krazy Town's ghoulish gagster in 23 issues (24 if we consider the anonymous ghost in the 28 January 1978 comic to be the same silly spirit). Spook never haunted the pages of Krazy.
| Character | Total Issues | First Appearance | Final Appearance |
| Spook | 23 | 21-Jul-1979 | 02-Feb-1980 |
Count of elements by artist
| Character | Artist | Total Elements |
| Spook | Frank McDiarmid | 15 |
| Spook | Mike Lacey | 5 |
| Spook | Frank McDiarmid pencils | 3 |
| Spook | Dick Millington | 1 |
| Spook | Jimmy Hansen | 1 |
| Spook | Barrie Appleby | 1 |
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