tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851275359007841222024-03-13T10:31:28.451-07:00WHIZZER AND CHIPSFor more comics visit my (much more regulary updated) other blog - Wacky Comics!
www.wackycomics.comGeorge Shiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03162253849922362900noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785127535900784122.post-89488623782801263502014-11-16T16:40:00.000-08:002014-11-16T16:40:28.670-08:00Fourty Five Years!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Firstly, I should apologise for how late this birthday celebration is - it's one month overdue! But nonetheless, here is the 45th birthday celebration for Whizzer and Chips!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Earlier in the year I asked readers to vote for their favourite Whizzer and Chips characters. Well the votes are in and I can now announce the winners. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In second place (tied): Odd Ball and Shiner</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In first place (tied): Sweeny Toddler and Joker</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whizz Kids are the clear winners here, taking first place entirely! Second place is shared evenly and third place goes to a Chip-ite. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">An additional celebration piece for Whizzer and Chips' birthday is the brand new Whizzer and Chips annual - out now! I don't have one yet but here's a low quality image of the cover, adapted from the first Whizzer and Chips annual of course. I'll bring you more information when I get a copy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This book is exclusive to Sainsbury's and I believe it costs just £3.99 - so be sure to grab a copy whilst you still can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Above you can see the first and last weekly Whizzer and Chips comic side-by-side. 21 years and nine days the weekly comic ran for. The final 'Best of Monthly' was dated January 1995 and, until 2014, that was the last Whizzer and Chips comic. It's fantastic that 45 years since the first issue Whizzer and Chips has made it's return - h</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">opefully we'll be seeing more from the title regularly into the future!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Happy birthday, Whizzer and Chips! </span>George Shiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03162253849922362900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785127535900784122.post-26789837425475507012014-08-05T20:29:00.000-07:002014-08-05T20:29:19.143-07:00The Last Steadfast McStaunch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here is the last <b>Steadfast McStaunch</b> strip that appeared in Whizzer and Chips, after <b>Denis Gifford</b> had revived him as a human for 11 episodes. It first appeared in the first issue and this one comes from the first Christmas issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Over on his blog Kid posted the original artwork for this page. Click on the link below to see it:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've just come across the above photograph on the Daily Mail site, one of many taken by Bob Mazzer on the London underground in the 1970's and 1980's. The young boy on the left is seen with an issue of Whizzer and Chips on his lap, that particular issue is the very first 'Best of Monthly' issue from November 1984.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">More of Bob's photographs can be viewed here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Today it's time to look at the issue of Whizzer and Chips dated 6th September 1986. The cover star is, it as had been for about a year (on and off with Sid's Snake), Sweeny Toddler, with lovely artwork by Tom Paterson. I just love the way it is Sweeny's mum who is hiding behind the armchair in the first panel, and not Sweeny. Great stuff and it is continued over the page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On the chat pages there are interesting announcements from both Sid and Shiner, both asking readers to send in any birthday wishes they wanted printing in the November issues. Readers could write in and messages would be written in the strips, on walls and fences etc. - a fantastic feature that makes Whizzer and Chips that little bit better than other comics (in my opinion, of course!). It also shows how far ahead they worked on the comics, roughly two months (I believe it was about six weeks in advance).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Be sure to read the letter by Shiner's announcement as well; one reader had written in asking which characters had appeared in the very first Chips section from 1969, and Shiner lies by including himself in the list when in truth he didn't appear until issue two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Moving on, the Sweet Tooth strip had an interesting script, I can't help but feel that whoever wrote it might have been suggesting something here - after all, Sweet Tooth had been in the comic since 1972 and coming up with new ideas must be tricky!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There's plenty more to show but not enough room to fit it al in, but I can't miss out this Phil Fitt strip. From a great (ahem) pun in the first panel to a guest appearance from Mike Lacey, this strip's got it all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'll wrap up this post with this nice full-colour advert for The Best of Monthly comics for Whizzer and Chips and Whoopee. Buster didn't have one yet; it arrived in May 1987.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I can make no promises, and indeed I do doubt, that every single issue of Whizzer and Chips will receive an individual post on this blog; it would be nice, but I can't see it happening (at least, not any time soon). I did cover the first three issues in detail, writing a summary of every strip back in 2012 but each of these posts took 1 - 2 days to write and comics are made up of artwork as well as stories, which these posts sort of abandoned. Anyway, those posts are still up there but no more will be produced in that format, and this is, I hope, the first of many that will be in the more familiar format I use on <u><a href="http://www.wackycomics.com/">my other blog</a></u>. Anyway, on to the comic, and at first glance it does not appear to be a particularly significant issue so you might question as to why I chose it for this first post in a new format. Well, first of all it has a great competition for readers to win one of '200 Matchbox Action Toys'. Sid and Shiner were very excited about this, as they expressed in their letters to the readers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On to the strips, and there are two of particular interest in this comic, one in Whizzer and the other in Chips. We'll look at the one in Chips first, it being Pete's Pockets. Usually illustrated by Mike Lacey, it's possible this particular episode is drawn by a ghost artist. The reason it's interesting is because it features a visit from a Whizz Kid - Joker on an unofficial raid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The other strip of interest also features a crossover, this time from one Whizz Kid to another, when Odd Ball pays a visit to Timothy Tester (and Nobby also appears). The artist here is definitely Cliff Brown, and the strip is followed by an advert for Mickey Mouse comic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Like with Joker's crossover, there is no mention of Odd Ball's visit to Timothy in his strip.</span>George Shiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03162253849922362900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785127535900784122.post-81648881649464670332014-05-03T16:40:00.001-07:002014-06-03T21:18:06.139-07:00Whizzer and Chips Merges Into Buster<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's time to look at the saddest part of Whizzer and Chips' history - the merger into Buster. Whizzer and Chips had changed a lot in its final months, it had gone full-colour and had merged into itself - there was no longer a Chips section in the middle. None of the changes saved it though, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and after 21 years and 9 days the final issue of Whizzer and Chips was released on 20th October 1990, dated for the 27th.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Unlike mergers of the past this one was fairly unadvertised in both Whizzer and Chips and Buster. In the last issue of Whizzer and Chips there was no centre spread announcement, no front cover strapline and no reminders to 'Buy Buster Next Week' throughout the comic. Instead, all that was seen was an advertisement taking up the inside back cover, which really isn't very clear as to what was happening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It was even worse in Buster, the one-page advert there is very lazily done and doesn't look very nice at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The first 'Buster with Whizzer and Chips' was dated 3rd November 1990, and came with some free Fiendish Feet stickers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The Whizz-kids and Chip-ites (if there were any, for as I have mentioned Whizzer was now one comic instead of two) were welcomed by just a small notice on the 'Dear Buster' page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Not a lot of characters moved into Buster from Whizzer and Chips. The ones that did were Joker, The Bumpkin Billionaires, Odd Ball, Sid's Snake, Fuss Pot, and Sweeny Toddler. Of those six only two originated in Whizzer and Chips - Sid's Snake and Odd Ball. Sadly Shiner, king of the Chip-ites, failed to survive the merger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">'Whizzer and Chips' would appear underneath Buster's name for almost a year, with the last combined issue dated 7th September 1991. Some of the characters would survive until the end of course, in 2000.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here is the full contents from the last issue of Whizzer and Chips.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 1 - Front cover image, Jimmy Hansen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 2 - Joker, Sid Burgon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 3 - Sweeny Toddler, Graham Exton</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 4 - Phil Fitt, Mike Lacey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 5 - Memory Banks, Mark Bennington</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 6 - Advertisement for St. Ivel Fiendish Feet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 7 - Odd Ball, Terry Bave</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 8 - Creepy Car, Reg Parlett †</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 9 - Tarman of the Jungle, Terry Bave</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 10 - Junior Rotter, Trevor Metcalfe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 11 - Neighbours, Anthony Hutchings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 12 - Sid's Snake, Mike Lacey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 13 - Fuss Pot, Trevor Metcalfe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 14 - Mustapha Million, Frank McDiarmid</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg 15 - </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Mustapha Million cont., Frank McDiarmid</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pg 16 - Puss and Pooch, Anthony Hutchings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pg 17 - Tummy Bugs Hobby*, Nigel Edwards</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pg 18 - Billy Bunter, Reg Parlett †</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pg 19 - Billy Bunter cont., Reg Parlett †</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pg 20 - Shiner, Mike Lacey (top half) †, Advert for Panini stickers in Roy of the Rovers (bottom half)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pg 21 - The Bumpkin Billionaires, Jimmy Hansen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pg 22 - The Ossies, Trevor Metcalfe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pg 23 - Advert for merger into Buster, Jimmy Hansen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pg 24 - Advert for Lego Technic</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">† - Reprint from either Whizzer and Chips or another comic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">* - this was part of a weekly series which focused on hobbies of different people and creatures.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Creepy Car is a reprint from Shiver and Shake</span></li>
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George Shiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03162253849922362900noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785127535900784122.post-6644875615841620502014-04-29T19:03:00.001-07:002014-04-29T19:03:47.616-07:00Whizzer and Chips Annual Gallery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'm pleased to announce that the Whizzer and Chips annual gallery is now online. It features the front covers of all the annuals, plus the price and page count for each book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You can find the page on the menu bar on the right hand side, or by clicking here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In 1980 Whizzer and Chips teamed up with Trebor to give away the Sweet Tooth Fruit Flavour drops you see above. A packet was presented as a free gift to the readers with issue dated 4th October 1980, and was also avaliable to buy in the shops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The wrappers came with an added bonus - a comic strip on the inside. There were twenty to collect in total, each one a different Sweet Tooth adventure illustrated by Trevor Metcalfe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am trying to collect scans/photos/images of all twenty wrappers. So far I've found two, no. 3 and no. 11, but there's still 18 to go. If you have any of the others (or perhaps a clearer picture of no 3) please don't hesitate to get in touch, either by commenting or by emailing me:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Over on my other blog Wacky Comics I've just published a post looking at the "Two In One" comics and asking myself why Shiver and Shake and Score 'n' Roar failed whilst Whizzer and Chips was a flying success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It took me three days to write and research it so if you do read it I hope you like it. You can find the post here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've had four or five of these comics for some time now and for a while have been trying to find out just how many of them there were, a fruitless task with which an answer could not be found in the comics or by anybody I contacted and asked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">However, there is light at the end of the tunnel and Kid over at his blog '<u><a href="http://kidr77.blogspot.co.nz/">Crivens! Comicbooks, Cartoons & Classic Collectables!</a></u>' revealed there to be fourteen, and accompanied this fact with a complete cover gallery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So, if you didn't see the post here they are - all fourteen smashing covers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The original post can be found here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://kidr77.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/whizzer-chips-comic-library-cover.html">http://kidr77.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/whizzer-chips-comic-library-cover.html</a></span>George Shiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03162253849922362900noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785127535900784122.post-88066476098044978982013-10-05T17:04:00.002-07:002014-03-04T19:04:53.574-08:00The Best Of Whizzer and Chips Monthly<br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Best Of Monthly's were, as the name suggests, monthly comics collecting the very best of a particular title, whichever title they were representing. Amongst others there were best of comics for Buster, Whoopee and, of course, Whizzer and Chips! The first one came out for November 1984, and was 68 pages for 55p - that's less than a penny a page!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If you look at their Twitter page you will notice a few Whizzer and Chips pages in the background, so this might be a hint for its return!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I asked them if they'd bringing back Whizzer and Chips, and here's what they said:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Oh, what wonderful characters the Loony Martians were! Illustrated flawlessly by Mike Green each episode they would spy on Earth and produce a plan to steal our food, as there is nothing to eat on Mars. Unfortunately for them, it would go wrong in various ways, leading to hilarious consequences!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here's a four page Loony Martians strip from the 1983 Whizzer and Chips annual for you to enjoy! As always, click on the image and then again to view in full size!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>George Shiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03162253849922362900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785127535900784122.post-86362763704166655272013-05-25T17:34:00.001-07:002013-05-25T17:35:01.099-07:00Mergers<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Four comics merged into Whizzer and Chips during its 21 year run. The first, Knockout, merged in 1973. This was followed by Krazy in 1978, Whoopee in 1985 and Scouse Mouse in 1989. Three of these mergers were celebrated with a free gift, a joke book for Knockout, a poster for Krazy and a fun wallet for Scouse Mouse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I don't have a photo of the fun wallet that came with Scouse Mouse, but it does look very similar to the quiz wallet given away in 1986:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If anybody can provide a scan of photo of the fun wallet I'd be very grateful!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">FUN FACT! Three of the four merges occured in April, although none of them on the same week.</span>George Shiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03162253849922362900noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785127535900784122.post-88272623792001741242013-05-25T16:52:00.000-07:002013-05-25T16:57:41.315-07:00Some Possible Logos<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here are three possible logos for the top of this blog, one with a strapline and one without, and one with brighter colours (the current one). I might make a fourth one with a price, and possibly even a fifth with a strapline and a price! Please let me know what you think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here's some awesome original cover art by Tom Paterson for issue dated 16th April 1988. This particular artwork is in the latest Compal Comics auction at lot #156, with an estimate of £60 - £80.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Also in the auction are some early comics with free gifts. I might try and buy these so I can share them with you here, but time will tell... (and I already have some images of them on 'The History' page).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've uploaded information and pages from the 1971 annual onto the History page, and hopefully other annuals will follow soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I might list the full contents, I'll see if I can get round to it shortly!</span>George Shiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03162253849922362900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785127535900784122.post-21980573941907243782013-01-30T02:27:00.001-08:002013-01-30T02:28:59.549-08:00Terry Bave Talks About Whizzer And Chips<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If you haven't yet picked up a copy of Cartoons and Comic Strips by cartoonist Terry Bave, then be sure to do so as an entire chapter is dedicated to Whizzer and Chips! he talks about the launch, advert and strips he drew for it, most interesting for me was Scribbler - a character who was ended because he was TOO popular!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Go grab a copy now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-bave/cartoons-and-comic-strips/paperback/product-20625272.html">http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-bave/cartoons-and-comic-strips/paperback/product-20625272.html</a></span>George Shiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03162253849922362900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785127535900784122.post-56842467477920646362013-01-21T02:01:00.001-08:002013-01-21T02:01:14.971-08:00A Very Late New Years Resolution<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Well, last year I wrote only 23 posts on this site, which really isn't very many - and theres a lot to cover! So for 2013 my resolution is to update this site more often! Look - I've written one already and we're only 21 days in!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Stay tuned for Whizzer and Chips fun!</span>George Shiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03162253849922362900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785127535900784122.post-29378190471156037302012-12-25T21:24:00.000-08:002012-12-25T21:24:00.250-08:00Merry Christmas!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A very Merry Christmas to all readers of this site!</span>George Shiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03162253849922362900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785127535900784122.post-46813832524067853852012-11-18T17:35:00.003-08:002012-11-18T17:35:41.710-08:00Steve Beckett's Whizzer and Chips<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Footsie the Clown</b> is a well-known character who appeared in full colour on the back page of <b>Wham!</b> in the mid 60's. But did you know he also appeared in Whizzer and Chips in the 1970's?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Originally he appeared in black and white and the strip just looked out of place in the comic, the lines were so much thinner than other strips. It did look a bit better when blue was added (blue because he was in the Chips section), but for some reason the character never </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">really</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> seemed to fit in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In Denis Gifford's Catalouge of Comic Characters, he states that Footsie only appeared in Whizzer and Chips in 1975, however both the above examples are from 1978.</span></div>
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George Shiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03162253849922362900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785127535900784122.post-82479407032059554682012-11-02T22:42:00.003-07:002012-11-03T15:11:33.792-07:00Issue No. 3 - 1st November 1969<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Date: 1st November 1969</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Free Gift: Super Full-Colour Guy Fawkes Mask</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This issue is important because it is the first fireworks issue. A general review of the comic can be found here: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://www.wackycomics.com/2012/11/fireworks-fun-with-whizzer-and-chips.html">http://www.wackycomics.com/2012/11/fireworks-fun-with-whizzer-and-chips.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 1 - Sid's Snake - Mike Lacey, Full Page, Full Colour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sid is going to charm Slippy because he believes he'll be afraid of all the bangs of the fireworks, but what Slippy really can't stand is the music from Sid's snake charming pipe! So Slippy slithers away, and Sid mistakes him for a Jumping Jack, followed by a Catherine Wheel. Whilst warning his friends to look out for his fearsome snake a prankster puts a banger in his pipe - destroying it! Sid returns home, assuming Slippy is hiding somewhere, scared stiff from the fireworks, only to discover he is lying in his bed - fast asleep! And he can't play any music because his pipe is destroyed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 2 - Message from The Editor, and a message from a raider from Chips!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 2 - Nipper - Terry Bave, Half Page, Black and White</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Nipper throws a stick for his dog to fetch, but after ten minutes he is wondering why it is taking him so long. When the dog returns, he comes back not with the stick but the a policeman's truncheon - with the policeman still holding it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 3 - Me and My Shadow - Terry Bave, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>A Box Of Fireworks Puts The Lid On The Shadow's Antics!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Shadow runs off with Smudger's fireworks, with intentions to use them the following day when everybody elses have gone! He runs into the shed, and a few minutes later, walks back out with them. Smudger runs and grabs the box off him, but when he opens it that evening he discovers that it is just nuts and bolts - shadow had been playing a prank! The actual fireworks had been locked up in the old trunk, and only shadow had the key! Fortunatly, the trunk had been put on the bonfire, so they could enjoy the fireworks after all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Number of Panels: 11</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pg. 4 - Odd-Ball - Stan McMurty</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, Full Page, Black, White and Red.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>A Crafty Bully Tries To Get Ahead By Using Odd-Ball!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Nobby and Odd Ball are looking forwards to using their fireworks but a bull steals Odd Ball to use as a head for a guy. When asking for a penny for the guy Odd Ball sticks his tounge out at the lady and she gives the bully nothing! A bit cinfusedm the pully throws the guy onto the bonfire and puts his biggest banger in its mouth - but Odd-Ball starts to eat it, and then chases the bully. When the banger explodes, he opens his mouth and all the sparks go over the bully! Nobby and Odd Ball are left to enjoy their fireworks in peace!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 5 - Little Saver - Terry Bave, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Susie has fireworks, but the other kids want to set them off early! After they give up the chase, they decide to go home and get some old clothes for their guys, but none of their mums have any - Susie has been collecting them all! They all march round to Susies house in demand for some, and they can have them - on two conditions. One - they promise not to throw bangers at her again and two, they all bring their guys to her house for a big fireworks party!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 6 - Kings of The Castle - Mike Western, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 7 - Kings of The Castle (cont.) - Mike Western, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Sword In Hand, The Kilted Figure Advanced!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After investigating a noise, Scrapper is grabbed my a mysterious arm and faces a man in a kilt, who is the sworn protector of the castle! He threatens the family to leave, and when Scrapper runs to tell everybody they come and investigate - and discover a secret passage! At the end they see the man in the kilt - who pulls a lever to open up a trapdoor below!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 8 - Give a Dog a Bone - Graham Allen, Full Page, Black, White and Red</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whilst trying to bury his bone Pooch comes across a live bomb, which he tosses away! A policeman quickly discovers it and radios the local authority! They soon move in to see if it is still active, but pooch thinks they are after his bone! He chases them away, and just as they are at a safe distance the bomb explodes, leaving a giant crater for Pooch to bury his bone at last!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After getting a black eye whilst trying to protect his bonfire, Shiner is worried that he won't be getting any fireworks! So before going home he buys a mask of a martian, which scares his mum so much she faints! When she comes round she sees Shiner with his black eye, and is proud of him - thinking he had to fight off the martian! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Thanks To The Boys, Some Rivals See Stars On The Moon</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Moon Crater Gang challenge Space School to a fight, so the kids persuade Teacher to take them to the moon to study moon dust. When there they sneak off, defeat the Moon Crater Gang and return to teacher just before they leave - without him even noticing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 11 - Batty Bat - Reg Parlett, 1/3 Page (Vertically, shared with Angel Face and Dare Devil), Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Batty Bat is once again looking for somewhere to sleep, and flies into the underground train station and onto a tube. When hanging upside down on a handrail, a man turns round and says "I say, Old Chap! Do you mind not looking over my shoulder and reading my newspaper!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 11 - Angel Face and Dare Devil - Mike Lacey, 2/3 page (vertically, shared with Batty Bat), Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Our (still) unnamed lad has a bunch of dry wood for a bonfire, and is deciding where to light it! Sudden;y, Angel Face and Dare Devil pop up! Dare Devil suggests setting it up and the school and burning it down, but Angel face says that the teachers will just come to him! Dare Devil then suggests outside an ice-cream factory so that all the ice-cream will melt and he can have it! But once again Angel Face says it wont benefit him when he is frozen and the factory owners get hold of him. Meanwhile, during all the arguing it starts raining and the wood gets soaked - meaning he'll never be able to use it for a bonfire!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 12 - Puddin' Tops - Terry Bave, Half Page, Black, White and Red</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>The Kids Clothe Their Guy... But Dad Won't Wear It!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When the latest issue of Whizzer and Chips is posted through their door, they decide to use the free gift mask and build a guy - using random clothes they find. Unfortunatly, their Dad's best clothes - and he isn't happy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 12 - Karate Kid - Terry Bave, Half Page, Black, White and Red</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Karate Kid Earns A Big Hand For His Chip-Chop Work!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lots of kids are bringing old wood and furniture to Karate Kid for him to chop up. He gets confused as to why so many people are coming - then he realises he's been invited to a bonfire - with all the wood he chopped up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ginger heads to the fireworks display - but only for the food! However, when he gets there he approaches the wrong type of Banger - the fireworks themselves! He decides to wear some protective gear until he gets to the barbecue and so wears an old pan on his head. Unfortunatly, it won't come off an he has to sit there listening to others eat everything!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 14 - Parker the Parky - Terry Bave, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Parker's Plan Goes Sky-High Today - And That's Not All, Either!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Parker doesn't want the kids building a bonfire or and blowing off fireworks in his park - so he confinscates them all and hides them in a hollow tree. When a man is walking past smoking his pipe, he throws the match into the tree and all the fireworks go off at once - and one of the trees hits Parker on the head, making him enjoy the fireworks in the end!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 15 - Harry's Haunted House - Reg Parlett, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Harry Dampens The Enthusiasm Of A Would-Be House Buyer!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">An intrested buyer of Harrys house is looking round, but Harry isn't intrested in selling. He tries to scare them off by floating through the wall, but they mistaken it for fungus and spray it with a solution! He then goes into the roof and drills a hole in the water tank and pipes, soaking the house whilst the man runs out! unfortunatly, the house continues to flood, and Harry needs a plumber urgently!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 16 - The Space Accident - Ron Tyrner, Full Page, Black, White and Red</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After the boys and policemen found nothing at the site - they decided to run for it thinking they'd be put in prison for wasitng police time! The police decide to go to their homes and wait for them to show up, but instead they hide under the bridge. They then see some fish, and when David points at it, something zaps from his finger and the fish turns into a giant. They run over the bridge but the fish breaks it in half seperating the two boys. They try to reach out for eachother, but can't quite reach!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 18 - Hetty's Horoscope - Terry Bave, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Hetty Cashes-In On A Case Of Mistaken Identity!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hetty goes into the newsagent to get herself a copy of Whizzer and Chips so she can use the mask on her guy, but when she comes out she takes the wrong person with her - taking a REAL old man by mistake! Still thinking it was her guy, she sells it to some kids who soon discover it to be a real man, and they want their money back!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 19 - Wear 'Em Out Wild - Mike Lacey, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Mum's Well And Truly Floored By Her Lad's Antics!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Wilf has no money as he had to spend it all on worn out clothes, so he runs home to see if he can earn some cash doing odd jobs for his mum! But he runs in on her newly polished floor, leaving muddy footprints everywhere! He is left to clean it up when she is gone, and he overdoes it a bit by the door. When she stands there, she falls through the floor and into Wilf's cart. When he is wheeling her to the doctor people think she is a really realistic guy, and Wilf returns with a small fortune!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 20 - The Spectacular Adventures of Willie Bunk - Frank McDiarmid, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pg. 21 - The Spectacular Adventures of Willie Bunk (cont.) - Frank McDiarmid, Full Page, Black, White and Red</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Willie Bunk Took To His Heels... But Still His Rivals Closed In!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Willie is off to Sammy's house to look after him when his mum is gone, and decides to take some of his fireworks along to show him. However, on the way he is chased by some bullies who want the bangers. They chase him into a garden and he hides up a washing line. He puts on his magic specs and suddenly sees himself upon a french ship, and the sheets are the sails. He releases the sail which plunges on the bullies, and makes his getaway on a lifeboat (actually a cartie), and lands ashore right on Billy's doorstep!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pg. 22 - Aqua Lad - Terry Bave, Full page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Mischievous Aqua Lad gets A Rocket For His Pranks Today!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Aqua Lad is scaring all the fish with his fireworks, but one of the rockets he fires at them is a dud, so they fire it back! It lands perfectly in his box of fireworks, and they all explode at once, breaking off part of the cliff - the bit with him on it! Once he's in the water all the fish try and get revenge!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Here's A Pal Who Will Know All The Answers... With Your Help!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Steadfast McStaunch has to once again battle various puzzles to get to the Wicked Witch - using the readers help! But he's smarter than the witch though, and manages to pass them all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 24 - Hot Rod - Alf Saparito, Full Page, Full Colour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Can You Picture Hot Rod As An Artist? Just Watch, Pals!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The King has offered the princess to any knight who can get rid of Hot Rod, and they are all trying to get her! Even Hot Rod knows he can't defeat all the knights coming towards him, so he grabs a bit of burnt tree and draws on the princess' picture, making her look ugly and old!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 25 - The Mummy's Curse - Reg Parlett, Full Page, Black, White and Red</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Abdul Has A Plan - But He's Too Tied Up To Accomplish It!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Abdul has a plan to escape the Mummy, and he tricks him by pretending Professor Potts is hiding in an empty coffin! When the Mummy walks in he hammers a nail into the door - to trap the mummy forever! But instead of hitting a nail, he whacks his thumb. The mummy offers to wrap them up in a bandage, and instead completely wraps him up, and then continues to follow the professor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 26 - The "Stealer" - Tom Kerr, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Another Masterpiece From The Misguided Genius Professor Clueless!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The reason the Professor's space flight crashed was because his Gyro-Compass went wrong, and he need's Arty to "borrow" one from the air base. In order to steal one, he gives Arty an anti-gravity device. But, whilst in mid-air he discovers that it can only last a few minutes, and he crash lands in the pond in the local park!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 28 - Fred's Family Tree - Artist Unknown, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Fred's Guy Fawkes Ancestor Proves An Explosive Character!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The council are going to blow up Fred's family tree overnight, but Fred spots them loading the gunpowder. He climbs up the tree to warn his ancestors, and comes down with Guy Fawkes. They trip up the council workers, knocking themselves unconcious, and run away with the gunpowder. Guy Fawkes of course wanted to blow them up - so they destroy the council buildings! The two men assigned to get rid of the tree get the blame!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 29 - Slowcoach - Mike Lacey, Full Page, Black, White and Red</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>A Firework Takes Slowcoach For A Trip To Remember!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Slowcoach's mum says that Slowcoach would need a rocket behind him to get to school on time. He takes this seriously, and heads to the fireworks shop. He can't get a rocket, but he does manage to (somehow) get the world's largest catherine wheel, which he lights to get to school! Unfortunatly, he crashes into a wall and it turns into a Jumping Jack, and he then crashes into a water barrel. Thinking he has it under control, he slams the lid on and sits on it so the firework can't come out. But instead the entire barrel is catapulted into orbit, and he crashes through the school roof!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 30 - Champ - Leo Baxendale, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Trust The Champ To Take First Prize For Firework Fun!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The big Bully Benny Boyle squirts Champ's smashing firework with his water pistol! Champ is furious, but needs money so walks around with his Guy. But Benny Boyle steals that too, and that crosses the line! So Champ gives Benny what for and walks around with Benny as his guy instead - and people give him money to get rid of it - it's far too ugly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 31 - KooKoo Klub - Denis Gifford, Full Page, Black and White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Various jokes illustrated by Denis Gifford.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Number of Panels: 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pg. 32 - Minnie's Mixer - Angel Nadel Quirch, Full Page, Full Colour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Comical Minnie Gives A Naughty Cyclist A Rough Ride!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Minnie decides to only use her magical mixer for good, but when aHarry Floggit cycles past and pulls her hair, she mixes him up with his bike to teach him a lesson! Later she sees an old lady trying to get onto a full bus but the bus conductor won't let her, and so mixes her and the bus together. Suddenly she realises she has to unmix them, and tries to catch up with the bus!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Number of Panels: 12</span></div>
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