British Update: Free Gift Farrago and First Quenchers Mash-Up – Loads of Younger Readers #1’s 1961-1990
*Younger Readers’ Comics: A plethora of premieres this week, many of them having Free Gifts to enhance their collectability. First issues with Free Gifts include Alf, Beep Beep, Disney Weekly, Get Along Gang, Goofy, Lamb Chop, Mickey Mouse & Friends, Postman Pat Fun-To-Do and World of Wym – no, we have no more clue about that last one than you do. As a bonus, we have the second issue of Maple Town with a free gift finger puppet, because we’re just too good to you! First issues without the free gifts include Buttons, Donald Duck (both #1’s from 1975 and 1987), Little Star, Mickey Mouse (1975), Teddy Bear and 1961’s Bimbo Weekly – a title which, thanks to linguistic shifts, would be a very different series if launched today! These pre-school debuts span almost three decades from 1961 to 1990. Bimbo #1 (pictured) is PR/FA at £5, owing mainly to a bit of ham-fisted interior colouring on four pages (Kids, eh? No coordination). For the grades and prices of the others, see our online catalogue.