| Element | Eventually published in | Published as | Notes |
| Sunday | Cheeky Weekly 29 December 1979 | Monday | There is no evidence of title panel replacement (from the 30 September 1978 revamp issue to the edition dated 30 June 1979 each day of Cheeky's Week began with a title panel - with the exception of Sunday), the church appears in panel 3 and Cheeky's dialogue in the final panel has been changed from its original reference to 6 Million Dollar Gran, so this was drawn as a Sunday page. In 1978, Christmas day was on a Monday, so this Christmas Eve page was shunted forward a day when it was eventually published the following year. Foot of page doesn't appear to have been resized. |
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid |
| Element | Eventually published in | Published as | Notes |
| 6 Million Dollar Gran | Cheeky Annual 1980, pages 9-11 | 6 Million Dollar Gran | First Page: Text in first speech balloon has been changed - presumably 'New Year party' replaces 'Christmas Party' - note the Christmas cracker on the third page (this strip appears in the January section of the annual). There is evidence of panel resizing to make the strip fit the proportions of the annual pages. Final Page: Text in panels 1 and 5 has been changed - presumably 'New Year' replaces 'Christmas'. Looks like there's something missing from policeman's speech balloon in panel 4 - could have been a Christmas reference, but more likely the balloon has been enlarged to fill some of the blank space resulting from panel resizing. The final panel has been changed - it would originally have shown Cheeky looking at the TV screen, which was the customary final panel of Gran strips in late 1978. Instead, a Jim Petrie rendition of Cheeky, originally published on page 72 of the 1979 Cheeky Annual, has been pasted in. As I didn't want to damage my annual by scanning it, my thanks to the scanner of the Gran pages featured here. |
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