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Issue: Cheeky Annual #1985
Publication Date: January 1985
 
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Publisher: FlagIPC
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Indicia Publisher: IPC Magazines Ltd.
On Sale Date: 1984
Volume:
Pages: 112
ISBN: 0850379148
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Price: £2.75 GBP
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Content Items: 49 (43 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour; Black and White
Dimensions: 19cm x 27.5 cm
Paper Stock: Heavier stock paper interiors
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: Annual
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Cheeky
Cheeky
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Starstruck Cheeky
Cheeky; Bump-Bump Bernie
Ha, Ha! Stage School is a great story!
Cheeky imagines what it would be like to be a circus star.
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Mustapha Million
Mustapha; friends; servants
We are having a jumble sale - but we forgot to hire a hall!
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Tub
Tub; salesman; shoppers
Over here, ladies!
Tub eats all of a salesman's margarine samples.
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A Winter's Snail

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humorous, nature
Snail
Snail; a bird; a hare
I fancy a little slither round the garden!
Snail heads south for the winter to avoid the deep snow.
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childrens, humorous
Calculator Kid
Charlie Counter; calculator; friends; mean neighbour
Oh, no!
Charlie's calculator figures out how to get the kids' soccer balls back from a mean neighbour.
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Dick Twerpin
Dick Twerpin; Tonto (a dog)
Here comes the mail coach!
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humorous, science fiction
Roy of the Robots
Roy; Ro-Rolls (robot car); mayor; car thieves
The mayor of Star City wants to hire Ro-Rolls!
While behaving oddly Ro-Rolls uncovers some car thieves.
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Stage School
Teacher; Marvo; Strongo; caretaker
Five to nine...
Teacher gets Marvo to pick his pocket so as not to have to pay the caretaker the five pounds he owes him.
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anthropomorphic, humorous
Croc
Croc; boater
Bah! Talk about rain!
A boater aids Croc when he gets stuck on a tree branch during a storm.
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Disaster Des
Des; bank employees; bank robbers
Aargh! It's Disaster Des!
Des foils a bank robbery.
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humorous
Starstruck Cheeky
Cheeky; audience of one
Of course! It's Stage School - so I'll be a star on the stage!
Cheeky imagines himself as a stand-up comedian, but isn't very good.
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adventure, fantasy
Creepy Crawley
Tim Bates; Mr. Bates; Mrs. Bates; Mr. Crawley (ghost of a butler); Lord Trentham
Wakey-wakey, master Tim!
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Cheeky's Pal: The Baker's Boy
Cheeky; the baker's boy
Who is Basil Brush's favourite character from history?
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Collection of riddles.
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The Girls
Cheeky; Snail; Hypno-Tessa; Gloomy Glad; Petula; Crystal Belle; Auntie Daisy; Ursula; unnamed crossing guard; Do-Good-Dora; louise; Granny Gumdrop
Well, girls, here we are again for our annual joke-telling contest!
While Cheeky is hypnotized into thinking he is a teapot, the girls have a joke-telling contest.
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Teacher
Teacher
So the first thing Teacher discovers after blast-off is...
Teacher takes a trip into outer space.
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drama, humorous
Granny
Granny; mother; children
Buy the children some clothes in the sales, Granny!
Granny takes the children clothes shopping but they keep trying to get away from her.
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Starstruck Cheeky
Cheeky; Paddywack
I know what kind of star to be - a radio and TV star!
Cheeky imagines himself the star on a radio and television station.
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childrens, humorous
Mustapha Million
Mustapha; children; workmen (villain)
Mustapha will soon be out to play.
A workman destroys the kids marbles but Mustapha retaliates by using diamonds as marbles.
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humorous, science fiction
Roy of the Robots
Roy; Ro-Chef; restaurant owner; customers
There's a call for you, Roy!
Ro-Chef has trouble satisfying a customer at a restaurant until a mop-head is served to him by accident.
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Calculator Kid
Charlie Counter; calculator
Coo, a parrot! I've never seen a real one before!
Charlie's calculator keeps telling him to stay away from animals. It finally tells him to climb a tree where he ends up rescuing a kitten.
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childrens, humorous
Stage School
Teacher; Marvo; Houdanny; Billy Blow; Calamity Jenny; fire-eater; caretaker
Okay, where is my wallet?
The teacher gets his five pounds back but promptly loses it to the caretaker.
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D. Phipps (signed)
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humorous, teen
The Hair-Raising Adventures of Harry
Harry; mom; dad; George (barber); Guido (barber)
Eek! What is it?
Harry's mom mistakes him for a yeti and decides to get his hair cut. Two separated barbers can't do the job.
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Cheeky v The Puzzler

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Cheeky; The Puzzler
Where did you spring from, Puzzler
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A collection of riddles and puzzles.
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Cheeky's Pal: Ursula the Usherette
Ursula; Cheeky; Baby Burpo
This time, the Burpo special going to tell you about Ursula, the cinema usherette!
Baby Burpo imparts a few facts about Ursula
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anthropomorphic, drama, humorous
Croc
Croc; housewife
Bah! Croc's so lazy!
Croc helps with household chores even though he is asleep.
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Starstruck Cheeky
Cheeky; Auntie Daisy; Do-Good Dora; delivery person
I know! I could be a film star!
Cheeky imagines himself as a movie detective.
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Paddywack
Paddywack; bride; groom
There goes the bride with her father!
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Baby Burpo
Baby Burpo; Posh Claude; punk rockers.
One day Baby Burpo's hero, Cheeky, was out of town and Baby had nobody to pester!
Baby Burpo is upset he can't find anything to do until he inspires some punk rockers.
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Mustapha Million
Mustapha; some friends
Good day, yes?
Mustapha uses his toy fire truck to help his friends do their chores.
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Ad Lad
Ad Lad; actor; film crew
Our 'Creme Tray' ads are famous!
Ad Lad keeps popping up in an ad for a box of chocolates being filmed at a ski resort.
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Croc
Croc; film crew
It's going to be a boring day today...I've nothing to do and what's more I'm broke!
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Croc makes a toothpaste commercial.
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Paddywack
Paddywack; wife
Ugh! What a nasty rainy day!
Paddywack thinks one can change the weather by altering the setting on a barometer.
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Knock-Knock Door Jokes

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Collection of knock-knock jokes surrounding a large illustration of a door with a face.
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adventure, fantasy
Creepy Crawley
Tim Bates; Mr. Bates; Mrs. Bates; Mr. Crawley (ghost of a butler); Lord Trentham
Sorry, Bates...but here are your final wages.
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Tub
Tub; Spike; Grot Street Gang
Hi, Spike! Can I help you get the disco ready?
Tub wants to help at the disco and becomes the bouncer when a rival group attacks.
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Ape Japes

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humorous, nature
I took a thorn out of his foot - now I can't get rid of him!
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Collection of one-panel joke featuring apes.
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historical, humorous
Dick Twerpin
Dick Twerpin; Tonto (his sog)
Stand and deliver in the name of Dick Twerpin,famous highwayman!
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humorous, science fiction
Roy of the Robots
Roy; Tinny Tim (robot barber); Ro-Mow; giant customer; Mr. Gromore
What can I do for you, sir?
One of Roy's customers is too big for his robot barber while another's lawn is too small for the robot mover. The two robots solve the problem by switching jobs.
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childrens, humorous
Stage School
Teacher; students; film crew
Grump! I'm still broke...!
The students earn teacher some money be doing their scene in a film perfectly.
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Croc
Croc; 'Fatty' Foster
Hey, mates! I've got to clean the blackboard...make sure no-one eats my school dinner!
"Fatty" Foster takes Croc school dinner but Croc gets it back.
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Disaster Des
Disaster Des; photographer
A lovely Autumn scene!
A photographer follows Disaster Des around hoping to get sme good shots of any disasters that happen.
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Snail "Down Under"

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Snail
Snail
It's lonely in the garden in Winter...with only hat bunch of miseries for company!
Snail attends a joke-telling contest underground.
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Mustapha Million
Mustapha; friends; bullying boater
We're going fishing, Mustapha - want to come?
Mustapha uses his toy battleship to get even with a boater who deliberately soaks him and his friends.
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Cheeky's Pal: Jogging Jeremy
Baby Burpo; Jogging Jeremy
For this Baby Burpo special, me tell you all about Jogging Jeremy - Cheeky's pal with muscles of jello!
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Paddywack
Paddywack; boy
Hello, son - having a look at the elephant?
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humorous, sports
Calculator Kid
Charlie Counter; his calculator; Rotter Rogan; race officials
I've entered for the junior cross-country run today!
Charlie is entered in a race and his calculator advises him to bring a map. The map proves useful in unusual ways.
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Starstruck Cheeky
Cheeky; record company executive; Paddywack
I'll be a pop star!
Cheeky imagines himself as a pop star but decides it is too dangerous.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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monsters
Monster Munch. The biggest snack money can buy.
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Back cover. Advertisement for Monster Munch.

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