*KAZOOP !!: Bumpkin Billionaires

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Hi and welcome to my blog about comics from other people’s childhood! It is dedicated primarily to British humour comics of the 60s and 70s. The reason they are not from my childhood is simply because I didn’t live in the UK back then (nor do I live there now). I knew next to nothing about them until fairly recently but since then I’ve developed a strong liking for the medium and amassed a large collection, including a number of complete or near complete sets. My intention is to use this blog as a channel for sharing my humble knowledge about different titles, favourite characters and creators as I slowly research my collection.

QUICK TIP: this blog is a sequence of posts covering one particular comic at a time. The sequence follows a certain logic, so for maximum results it is recommended that the blog is read from the oldest post up.

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Monday, December 23, 2019

WHOOPEE! 1978 CUT-OUT X-MAS CARDS – PART ONE

If you enjoyed my previous two posts with 1979 WHOOPEE! pull-out Christmas labels, you might like the next two featuring the pull-out X-mas cards offered to the readers of WHOOPEE! in 1978.

There were 10 cards all in all, and they were printed in WHOOPEE! issues cover-dated 18th and 25th November and 2nd December 1978. WHOOPEE! was affected by industrial action in December 1978 and missed three weeks after Dec. 2nd, so it was nice of the editors to supply the young readers with the nice set of cards well beforehand. Here are the first six, and four more will follow soon. Enjoy!

Characters are © Rebellion Publishing Ltd

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Sunday, October 9, 2016

GUEST APPEARANCES AT SCREAM INN – BUMPKIN BILLIONAIRES

The filthy-rich Bumpkin Billionaires were among the least-likely candidates to show up at Scream Inn in hope to win a million. On the contrary – they worked hard every week devising crazy schemes to get rid of some of their enormous wealth they had won in the lottery in the first issue of WHOOPEE!

Nonetheless, they did appear in Scream Inn strip, but in the capacity of finance providers rather than guests of the haunted inn!

The comedy of Bumpkin Billionaires was that the family’s efforts to waste money inevitably backfired, making them even wealthier than before. That week they had to endure two disappointments – one in Scream Inn, illustrated by Brian Walker, and one in their own strip, illustrated by Mike Lacey. Both episodes are from Whoopee! issue No. 124 cover-dated 7th August, 1976. Enjoy!