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.
Whizzer and Chips dated 12 December 1987 saw the next raid to be perpetrated on Mustapha Million. But which of the Whizz-kid wanglers managed to worm their way into the proceedings? Scroll down to see the identity of the interloper.
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Whizzer and Chips 12 December 1987
Art: Frank McDiarmid |
Yes, it's Whizzer's pesky prankster Joker, on his second raid into Mustapha's strip (the first having been in the
27 July 1985 comic). Our middle eastern mate had previously raided Joker in the
07 June and
16 August 1986 editions.
Frank McDiarmid's artwork on this Mustapha story is much more restrained than his Cheeky work, but no doubt that was the brief he was given by the Whizzer and Chips editor.
More raiding fun soon!
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