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Saturday 14 September 2024

Whizzer and Chips - The Cheeky Raids part 61

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 previous post in this series focused on Whizzer and Chips dated 24 February 1990, which is the fifth issue in which I have been unable to identify raiders into both Whizzer and Chips - there have been 3 issues where the Chip-ite raider into Whizzer has evaded me, and 2 in which no interloper into Chips has been evident (to me) - see the table below for more details. Now it may be that my observational skills are lacking and it's just that I haven't looked hard enough (although I have scoured each of the issues in question a number of times), or it's possible that the person in the W&C office whose task it was to secrete two pasted-in images in each issue, one within Whizzer and the other somewhere among the funny folk of Chips, was less than assiduous in performing their clandestine task. Each issue at this period included captions on the Sid's Whizz-kids and Shiner's Chip-ites pages warning that the opposition had sent a raider into their section of the comic, but sadly the culprits were no longer exposed the following week as had been the practice until the 30 July 1988 comic.

In the issue following from that examined in my previous post, I have been able to identify raiders into Whizzer and Chips, and since Mustapha Million, who by this point was the only surviving character who had originated in Cheeky Weekly, was not involved in either of the raids, I can eliminate it from my investigations.

The edition published a week later, dated 10 March 1990, is yet another perplexing one, as I have identified 2 raiders but they are both within Chips!

There's an infant infiltrator into Lazy Bones' story on page 19, as a glowering Sweeny Toddler observes the teacher spout his expository monologue in the first panel. This strip is reprinted from page 6 of Whizzer and Chips dated 06 April 1985, which was the first edition merged with Whoopee. Sweeny's ugly fizzog was in evidence in the same position on that occasion because the teeny terror was seen (or left evidence of his presence in the form of graffiti) several times in the the inaugural merge issue as he prowled the comic in order to establish on which page his story had been placed (in the process outing Mustapha Million as the raider into Whizzer). On the original printing of this Lazy Bones story, a message reading 'Where is my page?' appeared below Sweeny's face.

Lazy Bones had undergone a conversion to Chipitism as of the comic dated 06 January 1990, so while this tale concerning the lethargic lad originally appeared in Whizzer, its 1990 reprint was located in Chips.

JR and Mustapha Million are both to be found on Sid's Whizz-kids page, but as objects of ridicule, so these appearances do not constitute raids.

Lazy Bones art: Colin Whittock
Whizzer and Chips 10 March 1990


The second raid (which I'm viewing as this edition's 'official' whizz-kid intrusion upon Chips) is perpetrated on Mustapha Million. Can you identify the interloper? Scroll down to learn the identity of the trespasser...

Art: Frank McDiarmid



 

...it's Whizzer's prime prankster Joker, committing his sixth intrusion upon Mustapha.

Unfortunately, the Chip-ite raider into Whizzer (if such is actually present in this particular issue) has evaded my questing eyeballs.


Whizzer and Chips Cover Date Raider Raided
06 April 1985Mustapha MillionSuper Steve
04 May 1985Bloggs (Store Wars)Mustapha Million
11 May 1985JokerThe Krazy Gang (Cheeky)
18 May 1985Calculator Kid & CalcOdd-Ball
01 June 1985
Animalad
Mustapha Million
The Krazy Gang (Cheeky)
Boy Boss
08 June 1985Odd-BallCalculator Kid
06 July 1985Toy BoyCalculator Kid
13 July 1985Pa BumpkinThe Krazy Gang (Cheeky)
27 July 1985JokerMustapha Million
24 August 1985CheekySid's Snake
14 September 1985
Odd-Ball
Calculator Kid
Calculator Kid
Store Wars
05 October 1985Mustapha MillionAnimalad
19 October 1985Odd-BallMustapha Million
23 November 1985
Sweeny Toddler
Sweeny Toddler
Sweeny Toddler
Calculator Kid
The Krazy Gang (Cheeky)
Mustapha Million
18 January 1986Mustapha MillionSuper Steve
25 January 1986
Odd-Ball
Cheeky
Mustapha Million
Odd-Ball
08 February 1986
The Krazy Gang ends this issue
AnimaladMustapha Million
15 February 1986Lazy BonesCalculator Kid
15 March 1986Odd-BallCalculator Kid
29 March 1986Calculator KidMaster P Brain
05 April 1986Bumpkin BillionairesMustapha Million
12 April 1986AnimaladCalculator Kid
31 May 1986Lazy BonesCalculator Kid
07 June 1986Mustapha MillionJoker
28 June 1986Sweet ToothMustapha Million
26 July 1986
Calculator Kid ends this issue
No Cheeky-related raid this issueNo Cheeky-related raid this issue
16 August 1986Mustapha MillionJoker
23 August 1986Sweet ToothMustapha Million
18 October 1986Winnie the Royal NagMustapha Million
06 December 1986Toy BoyMustapha Million
13 December 1986Mustapha MillionOdd-Ball
17 January 1987SidMustapha Million
14 February 1987Odd-BallMustapha Million
11 April 1987Pa BumpkinMustapha Million
25 April 1987Mustapha MillionOdd-Ball
20 June 1987Toy BoyMustapha Million
27 June 1987Mustapha MillionMemory Banks
25 July 1987Lazy BonesMustapha Million
22 August 1987Winnie the Royal NagMustapha Million
12 September 1987Mustapha MillionSweet Tooth
19 September 1987Odd-BallMustapha Million
24 October 1987Odd-BallMustapha Million
12 December 1987JokerMustapha Million
13 February 1988Bloggs (Store Wars)Mustapha Million
20 February 1988Mustapha MillionJoker
12 March 1988Odd-BallMustapha Million
23 April 1988JokerMustapha 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 issueNo Cheeky-related raid this issue
11 June 1988SlippyMustapha Million
16 July 1988Toy BoyMustapha Million
30 July 1988 New raids halted

05 August 1989 (raid reprinted from 25 Aug 1984)CheekyStore Wars
12 August 1989 Resumption of new raids (one per week)No Cheeky-related raid this issueNo Cheeky-related raid this issue
02 September 1989JokerMustapha Million
16 September 1989SlippyMustapha Million
23 September 1989 Weekly reciprocal raids resumeNo Cheeky-related raid this issueNo Cheeky-related raid this issue
28 October 1989
Mustapha Million

Sweeny Toddler
Bobby's Ghoul

Mustapha Million
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 MillionSid's Whizz-kids page
02 December 1989 JokerMustapha Million
23 December 1989 - Junior Rotter is the Chip-ite raider into Whizzer, but I have been unable to identify any raider into Chips

30 December 1989 - Slippy is the Whizz-kid raider into Chips, but I have been unable to identify any raider into Whizzer

27 January 1990 - Slippy is the Whizz-kid raider into Chips, but I have been unable to identify any raider into Whizzer

24 February 1990 - Joker is the Whizz-kid raider into Chips, but I have been unable to identify any raider into Whizzer

10 March 1990 - Sweeny Toddler intrudes upon Lazy Bones in a reprinted 'raid' from Whizzer and Chips dated 06 April 1985. I have been unable to identify any raider into Whizzer.Joker
Mustapha Million


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