Cover date 20 March 1976: Whizzer and Chips

Sid’s Snake: artist unknown

It’s a lock-in for Sid’s Snake Slippy on the cover of today’s Whizzer and Chips. (Edit: Thank you Andy Boal for pointing out that - unusually - Mike Lacey was not the Sid’s Snake artist on this occasion. Annoyingly, it did occur to me as I wrote the original post that it might not be Mike - those firemen’s legs didn’t look right to me - but I didn’t follow through on the hunch. Happy to be put right here!)

The Whizz-kids line-up inside includes Frank McDiarmid’s Mystery Museum, Tom Williams’ Tiny Tycoon, Terry Bave’s Odd Ball and Sid Burgon’s Joker.

Mystery Museum: Frank McDiarmid (artist)

Tiny Tycoon: Tom Williams (artist)

Odd Ball: Terry Bave (artist)

Joker: Sid Burgon (artist)

For today’s Chip-ites, here’s a soggy doggy tale for Jimmy Hansen’s Shiner, fat-shaming in Terry Bave’s The Slimms, geriatric high-jinks in Brian Walker’s Old Boy and an extra chippy day for Norman Mansbridge’s Fuss Pot.

Shiner: Jimmy Hansen (artist)

The Slimms: Terry Bave (artist)

Old Boy: Brian Walker (artist)

Fuss Pot: Norman Mansbridge (artist)