First Issue: 9th March 1974
Last Issue: 30th March 1985
Copyright: IPC Magazines
The Bumpkin Billionaires
Whoopee! Issue number one appeared on 9th March 1974 and included a free gift of a ‘ Super Squirt Ring’ pictured left.
Stories in the first issue were Snap Happy, Little Miss Muffit, The Ghost Train, The Upper Crusts and the Lazy Loafers, Clobber Ernie Learner, Spy School, Lunchin’ Vulture Goon Platoon, Toy Boy, Pop Snorer, Stoker, Clever Dick and Dozy Mick, Evil Eye, Wolf Pack, Daisy Jones’ Locket, Super Dad, King Arthur and the Frights of the Round Table, Bumpkin Billionaires, Ad Lad and Heegee and his Nag.
The comic ran for just over eleven years and published 572 issues. Whoopee! merged with ‘Shiver and Shake’ in the issue dated 12th October 1974. A further merger took place with ‘Cheekley Weekly’ on the 9th February 1980. One final time, would Whoopee! be the senior partner in a merger was with ‘Wow!’ comic dated 2nd July 1983.
The comic’s run finally came to an end in 1985 when it became the junior partner to ‘Whizzer and Chips’ with the 6th April issue welcoming its readers.
Whoopee!
First Issue
9th March 1974
‘Whoopee! and Shiver & Shake’
First Issue
12th October 1974
‘Whoopee! and Cheeky’
First Issue
9th February 1980
‘Whoopee and Wow!’
First Issue
2nd July 1983
Whoopee
Last Issue
30th March 1985
‘Whizzer and Chips and Whoopee’
First Issue
6th April 1985
