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With all the filler pages and reprints it was getting ready for Krazy comic..

Whizzer and Chip and Krazy up to the early 80's is my favourite period in whizzer and chips..

kevf wrote:

Raven wrote:

Lew Stringer wrote: Thingumajig: started off by Ron Turner but does anyone recognise the artist in this issue?

Is it Eric 'Cursitor Doom' Bradbury?

Kev F

Looks like Bill Lacey to me, but some bits don't. Might be a new artist ghosting various styles perhaps?

Lew

Brendan McGuire wrote:That was my first encounter with Tammy. I never realised it was so chock full of merriment and mirth!

Ha! Yes it's quite grim in places isn't it? Pat Mills reckoned it didn't suffer the same fate as Action because Action's violence was all in the open and Tammy's trauma was more subtle. But the strips are quite cruel really. That said, I bet no reader was harmed by them and they eagerly looked forward to them every week. Tammy had quite a decent run didn't it?

Lew

Speaking of artists, there's an Ebay seller selling a load of Busters right now featuring "Brian Bolland's Faceache."

I was trying to work out what was "special" about today's Whizzer & Chips reprint and all I could think of was that it might have been the 500th issue? It started in October 1969 but I think my theory falls down as I roughly work it out to be only about issue 450. Shame that. But i've always wondered why IPC never numbered their comics. SOme start off with numbering eg Lion, Tiger and Whoopee but don't continue it..

stevezodiac wrote:I was trying to work out what was "special" about today's Whizzer & Chips reprint

Nothing I guess.

Raven wrote:Speaking of artists, there's an Ebay seller selling a load of Busters right now featuring "Brian Bolland's Faceache."

Incredible.

Lew

Lazy Bones made me think - of course, I'm more familiar with Colin Whittock's version - but is this one drawn by Martin Baxendale?

And who drew Whizz Wheels?

Fuss Pot is an obvious reprint from the very early days - the skirt of her dress is too long, for a start. Sweet Tooth is by regular ghost artist Barry Glennard, and while the Slimms could conceivably be a reprint, Odd Ball certainly isn't. All the characters that stuck around as long as the Whoopee merger had reached maturity in terms of artwork by this time.

Raven wrote:Speaking of artists, there's an Ebay seller selling a load of Busters right now featuring "Brian Bolland's Faceache."

Lew Stringer wrote: Incredible.

Lew

It was never as good as Ken Reid's Judge Dredd.

AndyB wrote:Lazy Bones made me think - of course, I'm more familiar with Colin Whittock's version - but is this one drawn by Martin Baxendale?

It does look like it.

AndyB wrote:And who drew Whizz Wheels?

It seems to be a mish-mash of styles and I'm wondering if it was a new artist. Some of the faces seem heavily influenced by Sandy Calder's style, but it's not him.

Lew

Did anyone spot the two Whizz-Kids who invaded Chips?

And why do Happy Families and the Whizz-Kids v Chip-ites Puzzle Challenge both say it's April 1st, when it's issue dated April 8th? Fuss-Pot gets April Fooled too. A Mickey Mouse advert confirms that April 3rd was Monday, therefore this issue should've been on sale from April 3rd to 9th, hence any April 1st mentions should've been in the previous issue.

I thought that the issue date referred to the date until which they were on sale, before the next one came out. This would mean that the 8th April dated issue would actually have come out on 1st April.

Yes, it undoubtedly came out Saturday April 1st.

If you're right, it's similar to Beano using Every Thursday when it actually comes out on Wednesdays (something only fixed last year), as W&C was Every Monday, not Every Saturday. That answers the question of what's so special about it by the way - it's an April Fools issue.

Now that we've accrued the full set of Guardian classic comics. We've either got a relatively chunky handful of nostalgia for some or, as they will be for others, a pertinent reminder of how quickly travels time's winged chariot.
Of the seven titles only the first issue of Tammy in any way overlapped with my own comic reading days and then only by a matter of months and further only if you would call the story paper Rover a comic, as once I'd learned the full extent of 'The Further Truth about Wilson' in Apr 1971 I was out of there. Learning to play guitar, reading the Melody Maker and the willowy charms of Vivienne Gibbons were all telling me to put away childish things and who was I to argue.
Paradoxically the only one that rang any real bells when it came to personal nostalgia was the Jackie as it reminded me, if I needed reminding, that that was how girls looked then and that reading Cathy and Claire's page in your girlfriend's bedroom was a rite of passage not to have been missed. To paraphrase Mott the Hoople 'Who needs T V comic when you got T.Rex!'
Of the rest I was personally disturbed to find that the Dandy comic they gave away, the newest of the bunch but nonetheless still a quarter of a century old, fell at the very end of the Dandy's life as it stood when I catalogued it in the original Dandy Monster Index.

Re the two adventure strips in the Whizzer and Chips I'd certainly have went for Bill Lacey and Sandy Calder as the artists.
If they ever do this again I think they should open up the demographic a touch a give us older readers a nod or two. An issue of vintage Wham wouldn't go amiss for instance or Valiant or Victor or June and School Friend or a mid to late 1960's Buster (I'm excluding tabloid titles like Beezer,Topper and the early Buster simply because I think the necessary reduction in size would nullify the original impact they had) Other than this I'd throw in a copy of Boy's Own Paper and a copy of Rainbow Xtreme, the issue in which Mrs Hippo barfs in Tiger Tim's porridge!