*TV & Film Related Comics: Of the many comics adaptations of Gerry Anderson’s TV oeuvre, one of the more obscure is Candy, a Younger Readers’ series which focused on a show which never actually happened. Legend has it that Anderson tried to sell a juvenile series, ‘Candy and Andy’, for which extensive prop and costume work was done, and when no TV producers took it up, used the prepared material instead as the basis for the third ‘Century 21’ comic, after TV 21 and Lady Penelope. (Full disclosure: other sources do refute the legend, but the legend’s more fun, so we’re sticking with it!) Today the photo-covers say less ‘wholesome family fun’ and more ‘serial killer’s trophy room’, but let’s put that down to changing times. The comic lasted 150+ issues, enhanced by the media presence of co-stars Topo Gigio, Tingha and Tucker, and Winnie the Pooh. The unusual landscape format makes these rarer than most Anderson-related memorabilia, though the series reverted to a standard portrait format about halfway through its run, shortly thereafter mercifully ditching the creepy photo-covers for line-drawn work. We have thirty new issues of Candy in stock, ranging from #12 to #127.
PICTURED: CANDY #49 (CHRISTMAS ISSUE) FN £16