British Update: Long Cold Winter? TV & Film Specials
*TV & Film Related Comics: This week’s celebration of the traditional Summer Specials focuses on TV & Film related titles, and should more properly be ‘Seasonal’ specials, as a couple of Winter warmers have found their way in! We open with the 1982 Star Trek Winter Special, released to coincide with “Wrath of Khan”, pull-out poster firmly in place and the other ‘Star’ franchise, Star Wars, is represented by 1984’s Christmas Special, and 1985’s Summer Special, both squarebound card-covered editions. Moving on to the Thundercats, we have their 1987 Winter and 1988 Spring Specials, a.k.a. issues #1 & #2 of Thundercats Collected Comics and we close on more traditional grounds with Holiday Specials for the long-running TV Comic weekly. From 1976 and 1978 respectively, these feature stalwarts such as Popeye, Captain Pugwash, Basil Brush, Roobarb and Tarzan together with originated characters the TV Terrors, Mighty Moth and skate-boarding super-hero, the Kicktail Kid! (And you thought Marvel’s Night Thrasher got their first…)