*Annuals: Around the festive season, many Annuals are purchased as novelty gifts, and we replenish our depleted stock now with an influx of classic titles and a few esoteric additions. In Boys’ Adventure and War Annuals, the leader of the flock, appropriately, is Black Bob, the Dandy Wonder Dog, whose 1955 Annual, VG £30, is pictured here. Other new entries include top-ups of the popular series Hotspur, Lion, Smash, Tiger and Valiant from the 1970s, the 1983 Dracula’s Spinechillers one-off, and the Big Battle Annual from somewhere in the early 1960s – no relation to the later more famous series from the 1970s. In TV & Film Related Annuals, we have new entries for Captain Scarlet, Countdown, TV Century 21 and the 1966 Thunderbirds Television Story Book; our solitary Western Annual this time is The Dakotas (1963), “from the thrilling television series”, as it asserts on the cover (blank looks all round).