Thingamijig

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DavidKW
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Thingamijig

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My memory had another flashback:

I remember an adventure/sci-fi flavoured strip in either Buster, Whizzer & Chips or Whoopee about a strange looking alien creature who lives with a boy and his family.

In one early strip it is revealed he eats paper & strip ends with him eating pound notes out the mother's purse.

When the alien went out with the boy & his mate he had to wear a rubber face/head mask.

In another strip I remember an unpleasant big bespectacled claims she knows about the alien & vows to expose him and ends up pulling the boys mate's face painfully, before she's ejected in disgrace; it ebds with the two boys laughing about it when Thingamijig emerges from a box he is hiding in and asks why they are crying. They laugh all is ok.

Can anyone clarify any more info? Sorry, I do keep picking & remembering some obscure strips.

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Re: Thingamijig

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A favourite of mine as a boy, Thingumajig! ran in the Chips section of Whizzer and Chips in 1976-78. He's an alien who gets adopted by two young Puddleton brothers after his spaceship crashes, living in their bedroom cupboard. They make him a rubber mask so he can pass as a normal boy ("If I wore that on my own planet, everyone would run a mile!") when out with them, and try to keep him a secret, but he mostly brings embarrassment - grabbing newspapers to eat in a shop, for example - and trouble. The adventures are often rather small scale and domestic, but at one point the army discover the spaceship and relocate it to a secret research establishment, not knowing the trio are inside, but they manage to escape and relocate the craft in a quarry.
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Thingumajig Whizzer and Chips 19th March 1977.jpg
Thingumajig Whizzer and Chips 25th February 1978.jpg

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Re: Thingamijig

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John Stokes artwork on the top example and Bill Lacey on the second, I believe?

I've never seen this strip before as I wasn't reading UK humour comics through those years. Cheers Raven.
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Re: Thingamijig

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Yeah nice one Raven! Thanks for info on strip too.

Fantasitc artwork on both cases.

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