British Update: Whoopee & Wow
*Humour Comics: No not just exclamations, but two of the myriad humour weeklies produced by Fleetway/IPC. Whoopee, home of ‘Ivor Lott and Tony Broke’, ‘Bumpkin Billionaires’ and the unfortunately named ‘Toy Boy’, is mammothly recharged with more than 200 issues, ranging from 1974 through to 1980, including the merger issues where Shiver & Shake and Cheeky got drawn into its devouring maw. The shorter-lived and oddball Wow produced ‘Adam and his Ants’, ‘Shipwreck School’, and ‘Gulliver’s Troubles’, and this update brings us issues from #2 in its launch year of 1982 until its last year of, um, 1983, after which it, too, was absorbed by Whoopee!