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Saturday 11 November 2017
WHIZZER & CHIPS HOLIDAY SPECIAL 1970...
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I find it interesting how often British comics consolidate instead of "tossing out the baby with the bath water" full cancellations.
ReplyDeleteChips into Whizzer, Pow! into Wham!, and Ranger into Look And Learn are three examples that have cropped up here in just the last few weeks. I like that better than the all-or-nothing approach we more typically see over here.
Actually, Whizzer & Chips was launched that way, as two comics in one, the same as Shiver & Shake which came out around three-odd years later. It was just a gimmick to make kids think they were getting more for their money, though the so-called 'two comics in one' only had the same amount of (combined) pages as 'single' issues of other IPC titles. (And it was Wham! into Pow!, but I know what you meant.)
ReplyDeleteI knew Shiver & Shake started as a combined title, but that cover blurb led me to think that Chips was a familiar title to readers of the time. Oops.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was Wham! & Pow!, not Pow! & Wham! Must have gotten confused on the sequence order - Wham! Pow! Knockout!
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It's easy to get confused with Pow! & Wham!, 3. The combined comic went by that name, but the combined Annuals (there were two of them) were called Wham! & Pow! and came out a few years after the comic had ceased. They also had no recognizable content to that of the comic.
ReplyDeleteThat makes sense. Far more often than not, my first exposure comes through the annuals. I grab all that pass my way, and use them as a launch point in my explorations.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, there's another copy of this W&C Holiday Special currently on eBay, 3 - just in case you're interested.
ReplyDeleteHard to find in tip top condition, so well done
ReplyDeleteTa, though to be honest, the Special isn't all that special, being a bit lacklustre unfortunately. However, still nice to have it.
ReplyDeleteI know that Alan Class comics didn't have dates on the covers so he could sell unsold stock to seaside vendors who could then sell them all the year round - maybe some of the specials were called Holiday rather than Summer for similar reasons?
ReplyDeleteYeah, but holidays, just like Summer, don't last all year round, DS, and most folk usually take (or used to back then) their holidays during the Summer. I'm still puzzled.
ReplyDeleteI always preferred them to be called Summer Specials rather than Holiday Specials, but I can't give any good reason why. Maybe just the association with hot weather, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteI also preferred them being called Summer Specials, but I suppose that's only because that's what they were called when I first encountered them.
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