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Sunday, 27 August 2023

1987 Annual (strips)...

Found another Annual, this one is the 1987 Annual, dated 1988 on the cover but published late in the previous year as per.  I've had a bit of a busy week, so I haven't got as much done as I hoped, I kinda knew I wouldn't so went for the strips first, so I can give you the strip only version.  All being well i'll complete for next sunday.

You can get here, abridged versions of The A-Team and Robin as well as two adventures with that nutty duo, Cannon and Ball...enjoy...


1987 Annual (full issue)

Cover: Inspector Gadget, Alf, Bobby Davro, Anneka Rice, Cannon & Ball, Joanne Conway, Roger Black, 5 Star and Jimmy Cricket.

Strips: The A-Team (Maureen and Gordon Gray), Rock on Tommy! with Cannon and Ball (Bill Titcombe) x2, Robin of Sherwood (Arthur Ranson),



Sunday, 20 August 2023

Stewpot's Fun Book and Ali Cat's Magic Circle Book of Tricks (full issues)...

Something a bit different this week, I have run out of stuff to scan, need to speak to Lee soon, but I have a few Look-in Books, so I thought i'd go with them, so we start this week with one from Zeg, that's the Stewpot fun book, and also from my collection we have Ali Cat's Magic book, lots of fun reading and also some great artwork in both...enjoy.....

1977 Stewpot's Fun Book (full issue)

Cover: Stewpot by Robert Nixon


1977 Ali Cat's Magic Circle Book of Tricks (full issue)

Cover: Ali Cat





Sunday, 13 August 2023

1982 No.4 (full issue)...

Shaky's back again for this one, it's from Dan's collection and is No.4 from 1982, inside you can win more fantastic tech, the ATARI 400 no less..!! You could play gems like Space Invaders, Asteroids and Super Break Out.  Sting is the Collect-a-Page, and try your own experiments in Special Selection....enjoy....

23rd jan 1982 - No.4 (full issue)

Cover: Shakin' Stevens

Strips: Rock on Tommy! with Cannon and Ball (Bill Titcombe), Magnum p.i. (John M. Burns)Story of the Beatles (Arthur Ranson) Worzel Gummidge (Mike Noble) and CHiPs (Jim Baikie),

Sunday, 6 August 2023

1990 Annual (full issue)...

Here is the Annual for 1990, this was also the last Look-in annual ever so far as i'm aware. there were strips, albeit reprints, Kylie and Jason were the big news along with Yazz, it was also around this time that there was a mountainload of classic TV starting to be shown again, good news for the likes of us!  read all about these and more inside.  i'm going to have my dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner (Batman!!!).....enjoy....

Annual 1990 (full issue)

Cover: Duckula, Kylie Minogue, Sean Kerley, Jason Donovan, Pam Dawber, Robin Williams, Yazz, Carol Vorderman, Michael Jackson and Pippin.

Strips: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century  (Arthur Ransonand Enid Blyton's Famous Five (Mike Noble).  N.B. Both are abridged versions of strips previously seen in Look-in weekly.