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In common with most British comics both sections originally included some semi-colour strips in black, white and red ( duotone) as well as black and white. To reinforce the distinction between the two, the duotone strips in Chips were later changed to black,white and blue.

Readers were encouraged to become either a 'Whizz-Kid' or a 'Chip-ite', depending on which section they read. The leader of the Whizz-Kids throughout was a boy called Sid, and the leader of the Chip-ites was a boy called Shiner. Both had their own strips in their respective sections, Sid's Snake in Whizzer and Shiner in Chips. Other characters throughout the comic's 21 year run included:

1 Whizzer

• Champ
• Joker (from Knockout)
• Lazy Bones
• Memory Banks
• Odd Ball
• Store Wars
• Strange Hill
• Sweet Tooth
• Sweeny Toddler (from Whoopee!)
• The 12½p Buytonic Boy (from Krazy)
• The Bumpkin Billionaires
• Timothy Tester
• Toy Boy

2 Chips

• Bewitched Belinda
• Bookworm (from Whoopee!)
• Bottom Of The Class
• Boy Boss
• Calculator Kid
• Creepy Comix (from Whoopee!)
• Fuss Pot (from Knockout)
• Guy Gorilla
• Hal's Holdall
• Happy Families
• Junior Rotter
• Mustapha Million
• Phil Fitt
• Sammy Shrink (from Knockout)
• Town Tarzan
• The Krazy Gang (from Krazy)
• The Slimms (from Cor!!Cor! was a British comic book that ran from (issues dates) 6 June 1970 to 15 June 1974, when it merged with Buster. Its strips included: Andy's Ants Chalky Donovan's Dad Fiends And Neighbours Football Madd Hire a Horror Ivor Lott and Tony Broke Jack Pott)

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