Whizzer and Chips

Whizzer & Chips was a long running humour title published by Fleetway from 18th Octorber 1969 to 27th October 1990 (1038 issues). It had the unusual gimmick of effectively being two comics in one, with Chips being an insert in the centre pages of what was effectively Whizzer. There was a friendly rivalry between the fans-and, indeed, the characters-of the two comics, the "Whizz Kids" (nominally led by Sid from the Sid's Snake strip) and the "Chip-Ites" (nominally led by Shiner) with both factions having their own separate readers' letters page, and with each side habitually sending a character to infiltrate the other comic each week, popping up in the background of someone else's strip. Aside from Sid's Snake and Shiner, some of the strips featured over the title's run (which saw it absorb two other less successful titles, Knockout on 30th June 1973 and Krazy Comic on 22nd April 1978, before finally absorbing long running stablemate Whoopee! on 6th April 1985) included Odd-Ball, Beat Your Neighbour, The Krazy Gang and Joker.