This should have went up yesterday, but I got sidetracked with stuff in the house and embarrassingly, I forgot..!!
9th January 1971
That is the day Look-in was born, a whole 50 years ago now, Alan Fennel after a nearly a decade in comics and editor of the TV Times decided that TV Times should have a counterpart for youngsters, a 'Junior TV Times’. From this idea Look-in was born and over 2 and a half decades it would become a mainstay for kids up and down the country, giving the very latest TV strips and news, and then later becoming a vibrant music paper too. Look-in was always on the pulse of what was popular and often made things even more popular, we loved Yo-Yo’s, T-Shirts, Skateboards, BMX’s, Star Wars and a whole lot more because they were featured in Look-in. I could say we had the very best artists, but some of them had been doing stuff before Look-in, and you can see their work in comics like TV21, Joe 90, Lady Penelope and Countdown, Alan gathered them all to add their brilliance to Look-in. So here is my tribute to the best magazine ever, in my humble opinion,
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