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Hi, continuing the subject of my today’s reply to the post about no Buster due to industrial action, I have now checked my WHOOPEE collection for 1978 and can confirm that the comic was not published for three weeks in the end of the year on 9th, 16th and 23rd December 1978. The clue is the uninterrupted storyline of the Wonder Car adventure strip in Whoopee issues dated 2nd December and 30th December 1978 hinting that there were no issues in between.

Other IPC titles also appear to have been affected in that period in 1978: Cheeky Weekly took a three-week break on Dec. 16th, 23rd and 30th, whereas Buster was 4 pages thinner than usual on 9th, 16th and 23rd December (or maybe the copies that I own don’t have middle pages; could someone please count pages in their copies and let me know?).

So far I have identified the following dates when there was no Whoopee:
28th Dec 1974
4th Jan 1975
11th Jan 1975
9th, 16th and 23rd December, 1978
17th, 24th, 31st May, 7th June, 1980
Plus one combined issue dated June 21/28, 1980

Could someone please check if there were any interruptions in 1979. Also, was Whoopee published on February 7, 1981?

Didn't know about Cheeky must change my blog post.very useful all this..thanks..K..

so instead of a nice rounded 120 Cheekys
there was 117 issues in total to collect.

I've changed blog post on my Cheeky Weekly covers...thanks again

This information has been very useful as I map out the World-Wide Weirdies on my blog..I'm numbering them to see how many Ken drew..


I got a blog post comment from a guy in India for this one...
glad British humour travels well...

http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogs ... nuary.html

klakadak-ploobadoof wrote:Other IPC titles also appear to have been affected in that period in 1978: Cheeky Weekly took a three-week break on Dec. 16th, 23rd and 30th, whereas Buster was 4 pages thinner than usual on 9th, 16th and 23rd December (or maybe the copies that I own don’t have middle pages; could someone please count pages in their copies and let me know?).

Cheeky for 2nd and 9th December 1978 were 28 pages only, but cover price was the usual 9p. Rather underhandedly, the pages in these issues are not numbered! Also page 3 of the 2nd December issue of Cheeky is as follows...