As IPC's 1979 Star Guest promotion
reached week 10, the toothy funster himself was called
upon to represent his comic within the pages of Whoopee! dated 02
June. This was Cheeky's second full-page Star Guest outing, his
previous being in 28 April's Whizzer and Chips.
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| Whoopee! 02 June 1979 Art: Barrie Appleby Many thanks to Irmantas for this scan |
As with Cheeky's earlier Star Guest
appearance, Barrie Appleby supplies the artwork. Frank McDiarmid
provided all the Cheeky's Week elements in the toothy funster's comic that week, so was presumably too busy to take on the promotional
strip as well. Whoopee! readers are introduced to a different set of Cheeky's pals to those featured in his earlier Star Guest visit to Whizzer and Chips, but this strip doesn't benefit from the spot colour that livened up that earlier page.
Our grinning pal, never afraid to
address readers directly, informs Whoopee! fans that they can enjoy
more of his corny jokes in Cheeky Weekly so, as with Cheeky's
previous Star Guest outing, there's no need for Star Guest's customary caption at the bottom of the page directing interested
parties toward the source title. Any comic consumers persuaded to
place an immediate order for the toothy funster's funny paper could have
enjoyed a 36-week run of Cheeky Weekly before it succumbed to the
inevitable merge and was absorbed into Whoopee! itself.
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