WHOOPEE! PULL-OUTS IN 1979 – PART TWO

As I said in my previous post where I covered the first seven months of 1979, WHOPPEE! was particularly generous with its pull-outs in that year. Let us resume the overview starting from the months of August and September, when the comic surprised its readers with a further six posters in the issues of 11th, 18th and 25th August and then 8th, 15th and 29th of September: 

The approach of the Bonfire Night of 1979 was marked with Gunpowder Plot cut-out game in the four issues of 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th October. 

The first three had the board and some cards:

...while the fourth had more cards and the rules how to play the game:

The next issue cover dated 3rd November, 1979 came with Guy Fawkes’ cut-out mask, drawn by Brian Walker, who had already contributed two of those in the Firework issues of 1977 and 1978, with quite a few more still to come in the eighties:

The 1979 poster spree concluded in the issues of 10th November, 24th November and 1st December, bringing the total of WHOOPEE! character posters offered in the course of the year to a whopping eleven:

The next three issues (8th, 15th and 22nd December) ran a series of twenty Xmas labels. 

I showed them in two of my posts at the end of last year, so here are just a few examples to refresh your memory:

Finally, the 1979 Xmas issue of WHOOPEE! came with the Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey pull-out game on the centrespread:

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WHOOPEE! POSTERS AND PULL-OUTS IN 1977

In 1977 IPC were again generous with their WHOOPEE! pull-outs – as many as 15 issues had something special in them.

The first two numbers (1st and 8th January) had a pull out calendar. 

This is how the calendar was advertised in the last issue of 1976: 

Ken Reid made it up to the readers for being unavailable to draw the previous year’s calendar, and contributed this impressive 2-part poster, with an evil-looking Sun and a spooky planet for each month. 

Assembly instructions were included with the second part of the calendar:

WHOOPEE! issue cover dated 12th February, 1977 had the Mini-Sampler of Whoopee!'s Companion Comic Whizzer and Chips. The 8-page mini booklet was all black and white and featured Shiner, Odd-Ball, Fuss Pot, Joker, Sid’s Snake, Hover Boots, Sweet Tooth and Tiny Tycoon. Here’s the front cover of the issue, followed by two sample pages of the booklet:

The issue of 11th June 1977 featured the Silver Jubilee Parade poster. 

The poster was advertised in the previous week’s edition:

… and showed a cheery crowd of WHOOPEE!’s stars marching along the street, waving their Union Jacks, etc. to the joy of the kids feasting at the tables on the sidewalk.  See how many strip characters you can spot :) A beautiful piece by Robert Nixon and one of my favourite WHOOPEE! posters (click to enlarge):

In the four issues from 25th June till 16th July, 1977 readers were offered an opportunity to give Bumpkin Billionaires a run for their money by playing the Bumpkin Billionaires' LOOSE YER LOT game.

Each of the first three issues had one part of the game printed in colour on the centre pages, and a page of white and blue cards:

The rest of the cards were printed on the centre pages of the fourth issue that also included instructions how to assemble and play the board game:

 

The next issue (23rd July, 1977) had this advert:

Thus, having taken a short break of just one week after the 'Loose Yer Lot' game, WHOOPEE! came up with a series of 4 pull-outs included in the issues cover-dated from 30th July till 20th August, 1977. They were quiz booklets on the four different subjects of TV, Pop, Sports and Animals. The front, back and centre pages of the 8-page booklets were in colour, while the rest were in b/w. 

Answers to all 4 quiz books were printed in the issue of 20th August, 1977 which had the last booklet. 

In the autumn of 1977 WHOOPEE! offered cut-out masks in the three consecutive issues of 8th, 15th and 22nd October. Here’s the advert of the first one:

All the three masks, drawn and signed by Brian Walker, were printed on the centre pages of the comic and appeared on front covers next to WHOOPEE! logo. 

By the way, WHOOPEE! issue cover-dated 22nd October 1977 was the last one with Bumpkin Billionaires as the cover stars – they were ousted by Sweeny starting from next week. 

Characters are © Rebellion Publishing Ltd 

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