*Girls’ Comics: From 1967, the trans-European Tina, launched in multiple language editions, was so heavily pre-sold prior to its launch that it could legitimately claim, even on the front of its debut issue, “More copies sold than any other girl’s paper in the world!” With a strong adventure-oriented line-up, curvaceous secret agent ‘Jane Bond’ illustrated by Michael Hubbard, was the lead, and the ‘Space Girls’ (in colour, by Dan Dare illustrator Keith Watson) added a sci-fi touch. Other features which debuted here were exotic island drama with Brenda Burn and ‘My Chum Yum-Yum’, pop musicians ‘Jackie and the Wild Boys’, western adventuress ‘Glory Gold’, and ‘Barbie’. Yep, that Barbie. After thirty issues, Tina merged with Princess and lived a long and happy life as Princess Tina, but the pre-Princess issues remain scarce, and we have never before, in our years of trading, encountered a Tina #1 with the free gift, of a ‘Gold Plated’ Troll Brooch!(bear in mind that in 1967, phrases like that didn’t necessarily imply that there was any actual gold involved…) Our copy of Tina #1 is in a remarkable FN/VF condition, and the brooch is VF/NM. Both comic and brooch can be yours for £80. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD