Whoopee! was a British comic that ran from (issues dates) 9 March 1974 to 30 March 1985, when it merged with Whizzer and Chips

Whizzer and Chips

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. It was published by IPC Magazines Ltd

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The first issue of Whoopee! ran to a generous forty pages, with a free gift in the form of a 'squirter ring'. The strapline exhorted potential readers to "Get happy - get this paper!".

Shiver and Shake

Shiver and Shake

Shiver and Shake was a British comic published every Monday by IPC Magazines Ltd. It ran from 10 March 1973 to 5 October 1974, when it merged with Whoopee!. As in the tradition of British comics many names of strips were a play on popular television programmes and films of the time...

merged with Whoopee! shortly after its launch in 1974, followed by Cheeky in 1980 and Wow!

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in 1983. Whoopee! annuals continued to appear well into the late 1980s, and a Best of Whoopee! monthly reprints comic was published for a few years in the early nineties.

Its strips included:

• Ad Lad - a Les Gray
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   lookalike obsessed with getting his face on television
• Bleep! (from Wow!)
• Blinketty Blink
• Blunder Puss (from Shiver and Shake)
• Bookworm
  Bookworm (comics)
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  - a bespectacled, book-loving schoolboy
• Boy Boss (from Wow!) - the nominal editor of a children's comic, who annoyed his staff by preferring playground games to official business
• Calculator Kid - a young boy with a distinctive rollercoaster-shaped hairstyle and a helpful calculator which helped him out of scrapes
• Cheeky (from Cheeky)
• Chip
• Creepy Car (from Shiver and Shake)
• Creepy Comix (from Wow!)
• Daisy Jones' Locket
• Dick Doobee - 'Back to Front Man', an innovative strip from Guardian
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   cartoonist Steve Bell
• Evil Eye
  Evil Eye (comics)
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  - a ghostly disembodied optic organ causes previously well-behaved citizens to indulge in criminal activities
• Family Trees (from Wow!)
• Frankie Stein
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  (from Shiver and Shake) - a smiley-faced Boris Karloff lookalike
• Fun Fear
• Ghoul Getters Ltd (from Shiver and Shake)
• KBR - Kids Band Radio (from Wow!) - a spoof on the CB radio phenomenon, with similarly outlandish jargon ("the cakes have gonked on my chunker!")
• Lolly Pop - a rotund, extremely rich and incredibly miserly man who begrudged his son almost everything
• Mum's the Word
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• Mustapha Million
  Mustapha Million
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  (from Cheeky) - a stereotypical Arab schoolboy who splashed money around to make his schoolmates' lives more comfortable
• 'Orrible 'Ole
• Ossie (from Wow!)
• Paddywack (from Cheeky) - a buck-toothed, curly-haired Irish labourer who enacted Irish jokes in three-panel strips
• Scared-Stiff Sam - a hulking giant who was nonetheless scared of everything, including his own teddy bear
• Scream Inn (from Shiver and Shake)
• Shake (from Shiver and Shake) - a cheerful anthropomorphic elephant in a school uniform and cap
• Shipwreck School (from Wow!)
• Shiver (from Shiver and Shake)
• Smiler - an eternally happy lad with a fixed grin
• Snap Happy
• Spare-Part Kit
• Spy School
• Stage School - a grumpy teacher takes a class full of budding comedians, dancers, musicians and novelty performers
• Supermum
• Sweeny Toddler
  Sweeny Toddler
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  (from Shiver and Shake) - an ugly, mischievous, highly anti-social infant created by Leo Baxendale
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• Team Mates (from Wow!)
• The Bumpkin Billionaires
  The Bumpkin Billionaires
  The Bumpkin Billionaires was originally a comic strip in the UK comic Whoopee!. It first appeared in issue 1, dated 9 March 1974.The main characters in the story were a family of four country yokels — "Ma" and "Pa" and their children Billy and Daisy — who had come into a great deal of...
  
  - a family of farm labourers win a fortune on the pools and spend all their time trying to give it away
• Tom Horror's World - a bespectacled budding inventor tries out his contraptions on his unwilling father, who usually comes off worst
• Toy Boy - a plaything-obsessed lad, usually seen playing an accordion in the title frame
• Willy Worry - a boy who misunderstood simple expressions (e.g. "I can see right through you"), taking them literally and worrying about the consequences.

Whoopee ran for 572 Issues.