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
© Rebellion Publishing Ltd
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.
