Mustapha Mi££ion

Mustapha Mi££ion, initially by Reg Parlett and later Joe McCaffrey, debuted in Cheeky Weekly in October 1977 and appeared throughout the title's run before migrating to the pages of Whoopee! in 1980, where the strip continued until 1985. It concerned a ludicrously rich Arab kid who lived in Britain, seemingly independent of any parental control, and who used his fabulous wealth principally on rather frivolous stunts for his own amusement or for the benefit of his not surprisingly many friends. Curiously Mustapha, while 'real' within his own strip, was frequently depicted as a comic strip character within the Cheeky strip which framed his early stories, making him a kind of fiction within a fiction...