British Update: Free Gift Farrago! Fleetway’s Big Cats (1): Jag from #1 with Free Gift
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: A new feature in our Autumn extravaganza is a three part update entitled Fleetway’s Big Cats. We open with a long run of Jag, from #1 (4/5/68) and featuring all the over-sized issues up to and including 15/2/69 (after which it lasted just a few more weeks in a smaller format before being merged in with Tiger — ‘great news, chums!’). The debut issue featured The Mouse Patrol by Eric Bradbury, The Indestructible Man by Jesus Blasco and Custer by Geoff Campion, but perhaps the most enduring strip was Football Family Robinson, drawn by Joe Colquhoun, which commenced in the issue dated 27/7/69 and survived into Tiger when Jag folded. Our Jag #1 ties in with our Free Gift Farrago event in that it comes with the Free Gift: Bobby Moore’s Book Of The FA Cup; both comic and book are GD/VG: £50 for the pair. Most copies in this run though are a sparkling FN grade; we’ve never seen better, and as usual when we get Jags in, they won’t stay with us very long. (I bet you can guess the subjects of our upcoming Fleetway’s Big Cats updates parts 2 and 3 — stay tuned!)