One of the things that made IPC comics different
from those of their competitors was the posters, mini-booklets and other fun pull-outs.
In 1979 Whoopee! celebrated X-mas by offering cut-out labels featuring its big stars
in the three issues cover-dated 8th, 15th and 22nd of December. Here are the
first three pages. I will save the remaining two for the next post.
Characters are
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Readers must have loved the various extras
because they are often missing in the comics offered on auction sites. When
building my Whoopee! collection, I wanted all of my copies to be complete, and although
the comic is not too difficult to find, it took me quite some time to get hold
of everything with nothing missing (for some reason, a 1979 February issue with
Supermum pull-out booklet was particularly hard to find). Whoopee! is my
favourite IPC comic and I still plan to cover it in detail at some point, but
until I get round to this ambitious quest, I might do a series of year-by-year
accounts of the various Whoopee! pull-outs next year.
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They are also well drawn....
ReplyDeleteWhoopee is also my favourite IPC comic...probably becasue of the great comics it merged with...
nice they are all drawn by the comic artists who draw the characters...Whizzer and chips also did the Christmas decorations which are good too..in the early 80's
It's always puzzled me that, as you mention, IPC were so keen on cut-out features, whereas DC Thomson rarely used them. On many other things the 2 companies would mirror each other's output (for example launching similarly-themed comics in competition) yet on the subject of cut-outs their attitudes were entirely different.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to your planned series on the Whoopee! pull-outs.