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| strip_name=Whacky| | |||
| start_issue= June 6th 1970| | |||
| Last_issue= October 12th 1973| | |||
| characters=Whacky, Mr Thwackery, Headmaster | |||
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| '''Whacky''' was a strip in the British comic ] and ran in the comic from its first issue on June 6th 1970 until October 1973 - some 6 months before the comic was merged with ]. It started as a half page strip but proved popular and was given a full page several weeks later. | '''Whacky''' was a strip in the British comic ] and ran in the comic from its first issue on June 6th 1970 until October 1973 - some 6 months before the comic was merged with ]. It started as a half page strip but proved popular and was given a full page several weeks later. | ||
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| First appearance | Issue June 6th 1970 ({{{start_date}}}) |
| Also appeared in | The Beano Annual |
| Current status | {{{format}}} |
| Characters | |
| Regular characters | Whacky, Mr Thwackery, Headmaster |
Whacky was a strip in the British comic Cor!! and ran in the comic from its first issue on June 6th 1970 until October 1973 - some 6 months before the comic was merged with Buster. It started as a half page strip but proved popular and was given a full page several weeks later.
The strip is about a schoolboy called Whacky who spends much of his time bending over to receive a whacking - later issues used the tag-line "He's always getting whacked" to emphasise the point. Most of the strips were school based and involved Whacky getting into trouble with his sadistic teacher Mr Thwackery - these situations would typically involve lateness, talking in class etc - though many times his teacher would find any excuse for regularly punishing him, which he often noticably revelled in. His punishments were mostly the traditional "six of the best" with the cane - though in its absense other items would be used including an umbrella, slipper, plank, tree branch, walking stick and book! At the time, the cane was still used in many British schools and coincided with the revival of the Jimmy Edwards TV show Whacko so this sort of behaviour was deemed perfectly innocent.
The strip ended in 1973 with Mr. Thwackery's retirement. A jubilant Whacky races out of school, convinced he won't be punished any more, however we follow him home where he kicks a football into his new neighbours garden - who happens to be Mr. Thwackery who duly chases the lad over fences, cane in hand, with Whacky exclaiming "Will it never end...?" The strip continued in the Cor!! summer specials and annuals that were still pubished into the early 1980's finishing with an appearance in the 1984 annual (published Christmas 1983) where Whacky walks into school to be greeted by a sign on the noticeboard exclaiming "No Whackings allowed". Mr. Thwackery manages to whack Whacky "by accident" (opening a door onto him and dropping a desk lid on him as he is bent over) before he manages to whack the headmaster by mistake. The final frame showing his teacher getting soundly whacked by the headmaster, with Whacky watching on...!!
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