On we go, here is the next one, No.20 from 1971 in full...
22nd May 1971 - No.20 (Full Issue)
Cover: Unknown.
Strips: Crowther in Trouble (Tom Kerr), Prize Idiots! introduced by Reg Varney (Unknown), Please Sir! (Unknown), Timeslip (Mike Noble), Freewheelers (Unknown) and Bright's Boffin's (Unknown).
Dear John
ReplyDeleteI hope you got my last message, not sure its sending. I don't know what age you stopped reading Look-in, Did you remember Space1999 and the Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. I think like Timeslip the stories dragged on too long, into months and to a child that's a long time. Maya only changed once throughout the stories and mostly not at all, would have been good in colour but by the 2nd season the comic strip went to black & white. Logan"s Run would have benefitted being in colour, didn't last long enough, never showed the City of Domes so I found it a disappointment. The bionic man and woman never showed their bionic parts like tearing the artificial skin and nor did they write in bionic speed or anything else for that matter apart from run and they did a bionic swim. I remember the bionic man finishing in March 1979 and the bionic woman 2 months later, then joining up in Bionic Action, which I always wanted to see one or the other guest feature in their own colour strip. They didn't get colour priority in Bionic Action, and I would like to have seen what the title logo would have looked like in colour. Again the stories went on for 2 months and Steve Austin seemed to get most of the bionic action and Jaime the passive bystander. I would have liked to have seen a fourth story and whether a female villain would have been in it, but these great classics to me had a shelf life in a certain time-zone.
Best regards
Paul Leigh
Dear John, in case you didn't receive the first message Thank you once again for your reply and the last episode of the Timeslip story. As an Artist/Cartoonist I drew my own comic strips of Timeslip and drew the characters going through the concrete barrier as on the tv show, unlike the comic strip in Look-in that showed them going through a sign-post, do you think that was because it was easier for the artist to draw? I did a lot of the tv Look-in strips in my own comic called "Retro 70s".
ReplyDeletekind regards
Paul
Hi Paul,
DeleteSorry I too so long to answer, I don't have a computer at home at the moment and use other peoples at the moment. It may take me a day or two to answer but I will answer every comment I receive. I didn't mind stories going on a bit if I really liked them, and Timeslip was a favourite. I thought the addition of Jaime was a wasted strip as Steve was already doing the bionic thing, and the same with Bionic Action, I think they should have replaced SMDM with BW and not went on with BA, but when something is successful it tends to be milked. Maya only changed about twice a program so it was likely she wouldn't change that much in the strip, I preferred series 1 anyway. I think making comics was someyhing a lot of kids did back then and I was no different, and of course Look-in was a huge source of inspiration for that. If you have some artwork i'd love to see scans.
Thanks for visiting the blog,
John.