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Publisher: IPC
Publication Dates: 18 October 1969 – 27 October 1990
Number of Issues Published: 1087 (#18 October 1969 – #27 October 1990 [1087])
Paper Stock: newsprint
Publishing Format: was ongong series
Publication Type: magazine

Merged with #30 June 1973 [194] from Knockout (IPC, 1971 series) #23 June 1973
Merged with #22 April 1978 [442] from Krazy Comic (IPC, 1976 series) #15 April 1978 [79]
Merged with #6 April 1985 [797] from Whoopee! (IPC, 1974 series) #572
Merged into Buster (IPC, 1960 series) #3 November 1990 [1556]

Ran for 1087 issues before merging with Buster comic in October 1990. The original idea was to have two comics in one – Chips could be pulled out from the center of Whizzer.

Several other series were incorporated into Whizzer and Chips.

30th June 1973 to 12th October 1974 – Cover title: “Whizzer and Chips Incorporating Knockout”

22nd April 1978 to 6th October 1979 – Cover title: “Whizzer and Chips with Krazy Comic” (27th May 1978 – First use of proper “With Krazy Comic” logo)

6th April 1985 to 12th October 1985 – Cover title: “Whizzer and Chips Now Including Whoopee” (5th October 1985 – Skipped “Now Including Whoopee” on cover)

15th April 1989 to 20th May 1989? (for 6 issues only?) – Cover title: “Whizzer and Chips with Scouse Mouse”

Merges with Buster (IPC, 1960 series) on 3rd November 1990.

Other dates of note:

19th October 1974 – 5th Birthday issue
13th October 1979 – 10th Anniversary issue
7th May 1983 – Cover says #700
27th October 1990 – Final issue

Information thanks to the Grand Comics Database

Ran for 1092 issues before merging with Buster comic in October 1990. The original idea was to have two comics in one – Chips could be pulled out from the center of Whizzer.

Whizzer and Chips was a British comic that ran from 18 October 1969 to 27 October 1990, when it merged with the comic Buster. As with most comics of the time, Whizzer and Chips was dated one week ahead of the day it actually appeared on newsstands in Great Britain.

The format of Whizzer and Chips was to have the comic divided into two separate parts, a novel idea at the time. One part was called Whizzer and the other was called Chips, with Chips existing as a separate pull-out section in the middle. The slogan was “Two comics in one, double the fun!”. It had no relation to earlier British comic Illustrated Chips. In the offices at Fleetway, it was always regarded as one comic.

In common with most British comics of the time, both sections originally included some of their strips in semi-colour using black, white, and red (duotone), with others in plain black and white. To reinforce the distinction between the two sections, the duotone strips in Chips were later changed to black, white, and blue. Whizzer and Chips went full colour on the week of 4 May 1990.

The comic Knockout merged with Whizzer and Chips on 30 June 1973, followed by Krazy in 1978,Whoopee! in 1985 and finally Scouse Mouse in 1989.

One ongoing concept was that the two comics were fierce rivals. A guest appearance by a character from one of the comic strips in the story of one in the other magazine would be described as a “raid”, and the other comic would seek its revenge with a raid of its own the following week. The first raid didn’t appear until issue 2.

Readers were encouraged to become either a “Whizz-Kid” or a “Chip-ite”, depending on which section they preferred. The leader of the Whizz-Kids was a boy called Sid and his snake Slippy, from the Sid’s Snake comic strip. The leader of the Chip-ites was a boy called Shiner from the comic strip of the same name, who had aspirations to become a boxer. In the first issue of Whizzer and Chips, Sid’s Snake was on the cover of Chips, as Shiner didn’t appear until issue 2.

Notable comic strips or characters in Chips throughout the comic’s 21-year run included:

Bewitched Belinda
Beat Your Neighbour (from Knockout)
Boney
Bookworm (from Whoopee!)
Bottom Of The Class
Boy Boss (from Whoopee!)
Buffalo Bill
Calculator Kid (from Whoopee!)
Cocoa
Creepy Comix (from Whoopee!)
The Double Deckers 22-May-71 to 13-May-72
Footsie the Clown
Fuss Pot (from Knockout)
Ginger’s Tum
Guy Gorilla
Hal’s Holdall
Harry’s Haunted House
Junior Rotter
Loser
Lucky Dick
Ma, Pa and Baby Ba (from 20 May 72)
Mustapha Million (from Whoopee!)
The Name Game (from 20 May 72 – charting the fictitious origins of a different name each week)
Phil Fitt
Percy’s Pets
Police Dog and Cat Burglar
Sammy Shrink (from Knockout)
Shiner
Super Dad
Toffee Nose (29 Jul 72 to 23 Jun 73)
Town Tarzan
The Krazy Gang (from Krazy)
The Slimms (from Cor!!)
Watford Gapp
Wear Em Out Wilf

Notable comic strips or characters in Whizzer throughout the comic’s 21-year run included:

Belle Tent
Bobby’s Ghoul
Champ
Doodle
Happy Families
Joker (from Knockout)
Lazy Bones
Me and My Shadow (from issue one, 18 Oct 1969 to 26 Dec 1970 then rested until its return on 1 Jan 1972
Memory Banks
Minnie’s Mixer (from issue one, 18 Oct 1969 until 23 Jun 1973 – merger with Knockout)
The Mummy’s Curse (from issue one, 18 Oct 1969 until 26 Dec 1970)
Mystery Museum
Odd Ball
Sid’s Snake
Slowcoach (from issue one to 23-Jun-73 – merger with Knockout)
Store Wars
Strange Hill (also appeared in The Dandy )
Sweet Tooth
Sweeny Toddler (from Whoopee!)
The 12½p Buytonic Boy (from Krazy) Later Known as Super Steve.
The Bumpkin Billionaires (from Whoopee!)
Timothy Tester (from 1 Jan 1972)
Tiny Tycoon
Toy Boy (from Whoopee!)
Whizz Wheels

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