1973 No.35, 1981 No.46, 1977 No.37 and 1978 No.23 (full Issues)...

A really productive week gives us no less than FOUR full issues to enjoy,  From Dan we get a fill in  for 1973 that's No.35, from myself - 1981 No.46 and the second New Avengers issue as requested - 1977 No.27 and another from Luke, that's No 23 from 1978, thanks to everybody this week, keep up the great work if you can.

Enjoy everyone...

25th August 1973 - No.35 (Full Issue)

Cover: Mike Channon by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: On the Buses (Harry North), Settle Down Now! with Ken Goodwin (Arthur Ranson), Les Dawson is Superflop (Brian Lewis), The Tomorrow People (John M. Burns), The Adventures of David Cassidy (Alan Parry), Follyfoot (Mike Noble), The Fenn Street Gang (Unknown) and Doctor in Charge (Tom Kerr).

7th November 1981 - No.46 (Full Issue)

Cover: The Beatles.

Strips: The Story of the Beatles (Arthur Ranson), CHiPs (Jim Baikie), Worzel Gummidge (Mike Noble), Rock on Tommy! with Cannon and Ball (Bill Titcombe), and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (John M. Burns).

10th September 1977 - No.37(Full Issue)

Cover: Patrick MacNee, Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: The Benny Hill Page (Bill Titcombe), The Six Million Dollar Man (Martin Asbury), Just William (Arthur Ranson), The Tomorrow People (Mike Noble), Starcruiser (David Jeffris), The Bionic Woman (John M. Burns) and Doctor on the Go (Bill Titcombe).

3rd June 1978 - No.23 (Full Issue)

Cover: Patrick Kate Jackson, Benny Hill, Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: The Benny Hill Page (Bill Titcombe), The Six Million Dollar Man (Martin Asbury), Man from Atlantis (Mike Noble), The Tomorrow People (Arthur Ranson), Starcruiser (David Jeffris), The Bionic Woman (John Bolton) and Doctor on the Go (Bill Titcombe).

1976 live...

1976 has been added to the checklist site, all available strip only issues are there as are full copies of No.22 and No.50.  1983 will follow asap as will the other years up the end in 94, but after 83 the issues will be a lot more sparse at the moment.

1976

bonus...

By way of a small bonus today, I have been sent the missing Kung Fu page from 1975 No.10, so I have quickly upgraded it to a complete strip only at 1500 pixels.  Thanks to Bill for that.

1st March 1975 - No.10 - (Strip only - updated)

Cover: Elton John by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: The Benny Hill Page (Andrew Christine), The Six Million Dollar Man (Martin Asbury), The Tomorrow People (John M. Burns), Doctor at Sea (John Cooper), The Adventures of Black Beauty (Leslie Branton), Kung Fu (Martin Asbury) and Bless This House (Alan Parry) .

1973 Annual, 1981 No.44 and bonus 1976 No.50 (full issues)...

Another marathon scan this week with the 1973 Annual, it was very hit and miss to do, some pages better than others, the text on a lot of the pages went too close to the spine and didn't scan well, but I hope you enjoy it anyway.  To go with that No.44 from 1981 with Cannon and Ball returning to replace Madness, if you are a Madness fan, fear not, they did return for a bit.  Also a bonus full issue as per request on the Look-in Facebook group. It's the first of two issues with New Avengers features, this one is No.50 from 1976, look out for the second one from 1977 next Sunday...

1973 Annual (Full Issue)

Cover: Robin Nedwell, Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart, Ken Goodwin, Stephen Lewis and Les Dawson by Arthur Ranson.

Strips: Les Dawson is Superflop (Brian Lewis), Pathfinders (Unknown), Settle Down Now! with Ken Goodwin (Arthur Ranson), Les Dawson is Superflop (Brian Lewis), The Adventures of David Cassidy (Alan Parry), Les Dawson is Superflop (Brian Lewis) and Settle Down Now! with Ken Goodwin (Arthur Ranson).

24th October 1981 - No.44 (Full Issue)

Cover: Bobby Ball and Tommy Cannon by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: The Story of the Beatles (Arthur Ranson), CHiPs (Jim Baikie), Worzel Gummidge (Mike Noble), Rock on Tommy! with Cannon and Ball (Bill Titcombe), and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (John M. Burns) .

4th December 1976 - No.50 (Full Issue)

Cover: Patrick MacNee, Gareth Hunt and Joanna Lumley by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: The Benny Hill Page (Bill Titcombe), The Six Million Dollar Man (Martin Asbury), It's Flintlock (Bill Titcombe), Space: 1999 (Mike Noble), The Bionic Woman (John M. Burns) and Doctor on the Go (Harry North) .

The Whole Story - The Six Million Dollar Man stories 5 and 6...

After a busy few days it's mid month time and the next two SMDM stories are here, with the first appearance of legendary villain The Toymaker...

Story 5 - Magister

Story: Angus P. Allan
Art: Martin Asbury

Story 6 - Rise of the Toymaker

Story: Angus P. Allan
Art: Martin Asbury

1973 Holiday Special and 1981 No.43 (full issues), plus bonus 1975 No.16 (strips only)...

A couple of things to mention about the 1981 issue this week, inside you may notice the Adam poster is in two pieces, this is because the poster was reversed in the issue and the Green Cross Code ad was actually the middle pages, for purposes of presenting the issue as it would have been seen, when you would have originally read through it, I've just put it in like that, but fear not, the full Adam poster is at the end of the file.  Secondly, mentioned within the issue is an Adam Ant picture strip 'coming soon', this was another strip that never happened, A similar styled 'swashbuckling' Adam strip 'The Fantastic Adventures of Adam Ant' featured later on in TOPS, later TV TOPS, so maybe they had bought the rights from under Look-in's nose, but it was one of those things that went to print too late to do anything about.  here is a page of the TOPS strip...

If you want to see more of this strip, Michael's Mag-a-Zone site has a few issues of TOPS/TV TOPS.  Anyway, onward to the issues, We have the 1973 Holiday Special, Just the one strip, an adventure with David Cassidy, but still plenty more good reading.  Also, the aforementioned 1981 No.43, also there is a bonus, a recently purchased 1975 No.16 in strip only form...enjoy...

1973 Holiday Special (Full Issue)

Cover: Stephen Lewis, Bob Grant, David Cassidy and Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart by Arthur Ranson.

Strip: The Adventures of David Cassidy (Alan Parry).

10th October 1981 - No.42 (Full Issue)

Cover: Adam and the Ants.

Strips: The Story of the Beatles (Arthur Ranson), CHiPs (Jim Baikie), Worzel Gummidge (Mike Noble), It's Madness (Harry North), and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (John M. Burns) .

12th April 1975 - No.16 (Strips only)

Cover: Leslie McKeown by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: The Benny Hill Page (Andrew Christine), The Tomorrow People (John M. Burns), Bless this House (Alan Parry), The Adventures of Black Beauty (Leslie Branton), Kung Fu (Martin Asbury) and Doctor at Sea (John Cooper) .

1982 now live...

The checklist page for 1982 is now live, you can go and get all available 1982 strip only issues and also a full No.22...

1982

1973 No.51 and 1981 No.42 (full issues)...

Just the two this week, No.51 from 1973, with thanks to Dan for help with that one and to go with that No.42 from 1981...

15th December 1973 - No.51 (Full Issue)

Cover: Glynne Poole by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: On the Buses (Harry North), Settle Down Now! with Ken Goodwin (Arthur Ranson), The Tomorrow People (John M. Burns), Follyfoot (Mike Noble), Les Dawson is Superflop (Arthur Ranson) and Doctor in Charge (Tom Kerr).

10th October 1981 - No.42 (Full Issue)

Cover: Cliff Richard.

Strips: The Story of the Beatles (Arthur Ranson), CHiPs (Jim Baikie), Worzel Gummidge (Mike Noble), It's Madness (Harry North), and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (John M. Burns) .

Brilliant blog...

Can I direct you to a great blog owned by a member of the Appreciation Group on Facebook, his name is Kev Sutherland, and he has Look-in's for sale on eBay at the moment, but they all have stuff cut out of them, when you see this blog it all becomes clear why he did this, He filled scrapbooks and wrote notes that were all thoughts and inspirations to what was eventually to become his living - drawing artwork and he has worked on a few famous publications.  On this blog he shows scans of his scrapbook pages and you can see, amongst other things, what he did with the stuff he cut out of his Look-in's, it's a rather brilliant site and definitely worth an hour of your time every now and then.

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