Cheeky Weekly
UK magazine
Cheeky Weekly was a British comic book magazine published every Monday by IPC Magazines Ltd. It ran for 117 issues from (issues dates) 22 October 1977 to 2 February 1980, failing to be published for 3 weeks in December 1978 due to an industrial dispute. It merged with stable-mate Whoopee!, initially as a 16-page pull-out section. The title character originated in an earlier comic called Krazy as a character in the strip The Krazy Gang and also the star of the 'Ello, It's Cheeky feature, and proved popular enough to get his own comic, which managed to outlive Krazy itself. The first issue came with a free "Red Jet Rattler" (a build-it-yourself model aeroplane). Its characters and strips included:
Cheeky's Week, a comic strip featuring the title character meeting various regular characters with much joke-telling. This strip was drawn by Frank McDiarmid.
Lily Pop
Posh Claude
Walter Wurx
Jogging Jeremy
Baby Burpo
Baker's Boy
Sid the Street Sweeper
Ursula the Usherette
Other Cheeky comic strips
Mustapha Million comic strip
Six Million Dollar Gran comic strip - This was a parody of The Six Million Dollar Man.
Skateboard Squad comic strip, later renamed "Speed Squad"
Tub - Tub was one of the characters from Cheeky's "Mystery Comic".
Disaster Des comic strip - Des's comic strip began in Cheeky issue dated 30 September 1978 and continued until the last issue.
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