In 1890 Amalgamated Press, decided to launch a line of comics that would sell for half the price of ASHH (see Ally Sloper below). This ‘halfpenny revolution' encouraged other publishers to join the fray, and soon we saw Sloper -influenced characters, such as ‘Weary Willie and Tired Tim' (Illustrated Chips), ‘Nobbler and Jerry' (Funny Cuts) and ‘The Three Lodgers' (Larks!) – many of whom would themselves become the stars of stage and screen. Illustrated Chips launched at ½d and ran for many years, eventually (during the 50’s we think) the title changed to Chips. Weary Willie and Tired Tim featured on the front cover in every issue and it is interesting to compare the changes over a 30 years period with the two issues we have from 1923 and 1953. Both Casey Court and PA Perkins & Percy feature in both, but in the earlier comic you can detect already the competitive marketplace with an ad promising FREE NEW YEAR gifts for all readers of Chips, Comic Cuts, Funny Wonder and Jolly Jester in the coming weeks. By the 1950’s it is obvious that the comic is struggling to let go of the past retaining the old strips, but introducing more modern characters such as Jimmy Joy the TV Boy and Menace From Mars featuring Paul Power and his Speed Shell. Sometime during the fifties the comic stopped, an article in the British Library says 1952, but having a 1953 comic would make this wrong. The name Chips appeared again in the late sixties and early seventies with the launch of Whizzer & Chips - two comics in one with Sid the Snake on the front cover. We feature Chips on our Model A.

Ally Sloper was the first star comic strip hero. He was Alexander (Ally) Sloper, F.O.M. (Friend of Man). He was created by Charles Ross and continued by his wife Marie Duval, and also by later artists. He was so successful that he eventually had his own comic paper, Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday, which came out in 1884.
In Victorian slang, an "alley sloper" was someone who sneaked out of the back door and went "sloping" down the alley when the landlord came for the rent. That was just the beginning of Ally Sloper's disreputable qualities. He was also drunken, lecherous, inattentive to his family, scheming and not very bright - just the sort of guy who gives a bad name to wherever he hangs out, and indeed Ally Sloper was often cited by early critics who considered comics fit reading matter only for loafers and semi-literates.
Sounds like Dusty, but could be Taff !!!!