Thursday, June 25, 2020

WHOOPEE! 1985 - A FEW OF THE LAST FRONT COVERS


In my previous post I said it was going to be the last in WHOOPEE! series for now, but I thought I might do another quick one… 

Only 13 issues were published in 1985 – the comic’s last year before it was absorbed by WHIZZER AND CHIPS, and although the paper was about to fold, I think 1985 was the year when readers saw some of the best WHOOPEE! covers. Here are a few that I find the most unusual and striking:





This doesn’t apply to the front cover of the last issue that I think was rather bland:


It had this announcement on the centre pages:


And here is the cover of the first combined issue that arrived a week later and coincided with Easter:



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