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.
My previous post in this series identified Mustapha Million as the victim of a raid in Whizzer and Chips dated 02 December 1989. I have been able to pinpoint raiders/raided in the issues dated 09 and 16 December 1989, and Mustapha is not involved in either incursion.
However, the edition dated 23 December 1989 is another problematic one, as although I have located Junior Rotter as the Chip-ite intruder in the Sid's Snake strip, I haven't been able to detect a Whizz-kid infiltrator into any strip within Chips.
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| Whizzer and Chips 23 December 1989 - Sid's Snake (art: Mike Lacey), including raider |
Our Chip-ite chum Mustapha appears on the Sid's Whizz-kids page but as an object of ridicule, so that can hardly be considered a raid (and anyway, as seen above, JR was the 'official' interloper into Whizzer). Am I being cynical in thinking the true purpose of the request for top ten votes (plus least favourite and choice for revival) from across Whizzer and Chips (on his own page, chief Chip-ite Shiner encourages his loyal followers to complete the voting coupon on Sid's equivalent site in the comic) was to assist the editor in deciding which strips would survive and be transferred to Buster when the mighty 'two comics in one' was cancelled 10 months later? Sadly, the result of the vote was never published.
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| Mustapha is involved in the delivery of 2 readers' jokes |
Having identified JR as the Chip-ite raider into Whizzer, I would only need to record a raid into this pre-Christmas edition of Chips if Mustapha Million was the victim. As far as I can see, Mustapha's strip was not intruded upon, but I'll show it here just in case someone out there can spot an interloper who I have missed.
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid |
More raiding fun soon!
| Whizzer and Chips Cover Date | Raider | Raided | ||||||
| 06 April 1985 | Mustapha Million | Super Steve | ||||||
| 04 May 1985 | Bloggs (Store Wars) | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 11 May 1985 | Joker | The Krazy Gang (Cheeky) | ||||||
| 18 May 1985 | Calculator Kid & Calc | Odd-Ball | ||||||
| 01 June 1985 |
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| 08 June 1985 | Odd-Ball | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 06 July 1985 | Toy Boy | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 13 July 1985 | Pa Bumpkin | The Krazy Gang (Cheeky) | ||||||
| 27 July 1985 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 24 August 1985 | Cheeky | Sid's Snake | ||||||
| 14 September 1985 |
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| 05 October 1985 | Mustapha Million | Animalad | ||||||
| 19 October 1985 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 23 November 1985 |
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| 18 January 1986 | Mustapha Million | Super Steve | ||||||
| 25 January 1986 |
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| 08 February 1986 The Krazy Gang ends this issue | Animalad | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 15 February 1986 | Lazy Bones | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 15 March 1986 | Odd-Ball | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 29 March 1986 | Calculator Kid | Master P Brain | ||||||
| 05 April 1986 | Bumpkin Billionaires | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 12 April 1986 | Animalad | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 31 May 1986 | Lazy Bones | Calculator Kid | ||||||
| 07 June 1986 | Mustapha Million | Joker | ||||||
| 28 June 1986 | Sweet Tooth | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 26 July 1986 Calculator Kid ends this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | ||||||
| 16 August 1986 | Mustapha Million | Joker | ||||||
| 23 August 1986 | Sweet Tooth | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 18 October 1986 | Winnie the Royal Nag | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 06 December 1986 | Toy Boy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 13 December 1986 | Mustapha Million | Odd-Ball | ||||||
| 17 January 1987 | Sid | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 14 February 1987 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 11 April 1987 | Pa Bumpkin | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 25 April 1987 | Mustapha Million | Odd-Ball | ||||||
| 20 June 1987 | Toy Boy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 27 June 1987 | Mustapha Million | Memory Banks | ||||||
| 25 July 1987 | Lazy Bones | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 22 August 1987 | Winnie the Royal Nag | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 12 September 1987 | Mustapha Million | Sweet Tooth | ||||||
| 19 September 1987 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 24 October 1987 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 12 December 1987 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 13 February 1988 | Bloggs (Store Wars) | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 20 February 1988 | Mustapha Million | Joker | ||||||
| 12 March 1988 | Odd-Ball | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 23 April 1988 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 28 May 1988 Readers asked not to let their Whizz-kid or Chip-ite sympathies colour their favourite strip votes | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | ||||||
| 11 June 1988 | Slippy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 16 July 1988 | Toy Boy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 30 July 1988 New raids halted | ||||||||
| 05 August 1989 (raid reprinted from 25 Aug 1984) | Cheeky | Store Wars | ||||||
| 12 August 1989 Resumption of new raids (one per week) | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | ||||||
| 02 September 1989 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 16 September 1989 | Slippy | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 23 September 1989 Weekly reciprocal raids resume | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | No Cheeky-related raid this issue | ||||||
| 28 October 1989 |
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| 11 November 1989 - Tarman is the Chip-ite raider into Whizzer, but I have been unable to identify any raider into Chips | ||||||||
| 18 November 1989 | Mustapha Million | Sid's Whizz-kids page | ||||||
| 02 December 1989 | Joker | Mustapha Million | ||||||
| 23 December 1989 - Junior Rotter is the Chip-ite raider into Whizzer, but I have been unable to identify any raider into Chips |
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