''Sid's Snake'' (also titled ''Sid and his Snake'') was a

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in the

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Whizzer and Chips ''Whizzer and Chips'' was a British comics magazine that ran from 18 October 1969 to 27 October 1990, when it merged with the comic '' Buster''. As with most comics of the time, ''Whizzer and Chips'' was dated one week ahead of the day it actua ...

''. It first appeared in issue 1, dated 18 October 1969, and was originally drawn by Mike Lacey;

Jimmy Hansen Jimmy may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * Jimmy (2008 film), ''Jimmy'' (2008 film), a 2008 Hindi thriller directed by Raj N. Sippy * Jimmy (1979 film), ''Jimmy'' (1979 film), a 1979 Indian Malayalam film directed by Melat ...

later took over. The strip's simple premise featured Sid and his

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snake Snakes are elongated, Limbless vertebrate, limbless, carnivore, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other Squamata, squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping Scale (zoology), scales. Ma ...

Slippy. Slippy had the ability to

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into various useful shapes. Sid was also the leader of the "Whizz-Kids" (characters who featured in the ''Whizzer'' section of the comic, as opposed to the "Chip-ites") and, bar the first issue (in which he appeared on the front cover of ''Chips'', usually Shiner's job) he appeared on the front cover of the comic until the mid-1980s. The strip survived the merger with ''

Buster Buster may refer to: People First name *Buster Drayton (born 1952), American boxer *Buster Glosson, retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general *Buster Mathis (1943–1995), American heavyweight boxer *Buster Mathis Jr. (born 1970), American heavyw ...

'' in 1990. Though the strip was no longer the leader of the Whizz-Kids, it still appeared in ''Buster'' until the comic's last issue at the beginning of 2000. As with all other strips that were still being published, it had by that time become a reprint. In Germany, the strip was called ''Twinky & Twist'' and occupied the last page of ''Felix'' magazine in the second half of the 1970s.

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