Soooooooo! You remember them too.
Oh yes...
And those 'Cracker' things that were a bit of cleverly folded brown paper that made a, um... cracking noise when you whizzed them...
They may have been in The Topper mind...
It was always very exciting to get a 'free' gift in your comic...
Indeed the 'Cracker Things' did come with The Topper.
I made some a couple of years back .... for the boys like ..... they thought they were wonderful.
SWWLTBO behaved exactly as my mother had 55 years ago. Reactions ranging from "That's nice dear" to "Take those bloody things out of the house or I'll put them on the fire" ..... all within 30 minutes of them mastering the art of getting the loud "CRACK" out of them