First Issue: 22nd July 1939Last Issue: 25th January 1941Copyright: DC Thomson Following the success of ‘The Beano Comic’ and ‘The Dandy Comic’, DC Thomson launched a third comic called ‘The Magic Comic’. ‘Koko the Pup’, ‘Full of Tricks and Full of Fun – Koko is a Pal for Everyone’ The front cover star of first…
First Issue: 9th January 1971Last Issue: 12th March 1994Copyright: Independent Television Look-in was the children’s version of the TV Times and mostly consisted of strips of the children’s favourite programs on television including ‘The Tomorrow People’, ‘Space:1999’, ‘The Bionic Woman’, ‘Six Million Dollar Man’, ‘Sapphire & Steel’, ‘Battlestar Galactica’, ‘Buck Rogers’, ‘Charlies Angels’,and ‘Knight Rider’….
First Issue: 24th January 1931Last Issue: 21st july 1934Copyright: Amalgamated Press ‘The Bullseye’ ran fior 183 issues before being relaunched as a comic called ‘Film Picture Stories’. During its run as a story paper, the title published the following stories ‘The Chat’, ‘The House Of Thrills’, ‘The Night Patrol’, ‘The Phantom Of Cursitor Fields’, ‘Mortimer…
First Issue: 16th October 1976Last Issue: 15th April 1978Copyright: IPC Magazines Do Not Be Caught Reading This In Class! Krazy issue number one appeared on 16th October 1976 and included a free gift of ‘Krazy False Teeth’. Stories in the first issue were ‘Krazy or Krazy Not?’, ‘Handy Andy’, ‘Krazy Dictionary’, ‘Fit Fred & Sick…
First Issue: 11th September 1954Last Issue: 30th March 1985Copyright: IPC Magazines Whilst sci-fi fans were lapping up the adventures of Dan Dare, IPC recognised that there was still a market for a sports comic. September 11 1954 saw the appearance of Tiger comic and its free gift of a ‘Space Gun Novelty’. Stories featured ‘Roy…
First Issue: 25th September 1976Last Issue: 20th March 1993Copyright: Egmont UK Limited Some twenty years after joining Melchester Rovers, at a time when most football careers are coming to an end, Roy Race became player manager of Melchester Rovers in 1974. The 1970’s were a significant time for Roy who married Penny Laine and had…
First Issue: 5th May 1979Last Issue: 30th January 1982Copyright: IPC Magazines ‘Jackpot’ comic ran for 141 issues before merging with ‘Buster’ comic. The first issue of ‘Jackpot’ comic included ‘Richie Wraggs’, ‘Angel’s Proper Charlies’, ‘Full O’ Beans’, ‘The Teeny Sweeney’, ‘Jack Pott’, ‘Little Adam and Eva’, ”Class Wars’, ‘Robot Smith’, ‘Good News Bad News’, ‘The…
First Issue: 11th January 1964Last Issue: 3rd July 1993Copyright: DC Thomson ‘Jackie introduced itself to itself to its female readership in January 1964 which was only two months following the death of the American president John F Kennedy and some believe that the comic may have derived its name from the name of president’s wife,…
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