*Girls’ Comics: A glossy big sister to Romeo aimed at a slightly trendier demographic, Jackie helped delight and inform (or brainwash, depending on your viewpoint) a generation of teenage girls and young women, with pop features and pin-ups, fashion and makeup tips, the ever-popular Problem Page, and scores of often beautifully illustrated romance comics stories. Free Gift issues of Jackie are uncommon, as the gifts were usually eagerly ripped away and consulted or applied in the hopes of snagging the Dream Boy, but these three are from a Newsagent’s uncirculated stock, and remain ‘gifted’. Both are from 1971. #374 is only GD (heavy horizontal crease across front cover), but the gift (a sheet of ‘Slapstickers’) is in FN, unused condition; two of the interior pages are a little sticky where the gift had been previously enclosed. #401 is in a nice VG/FN, with the gift (‘Purple Pop Ring’ VF), still sealed in its original envelope.
PICTURED: JACKIE
#374 GD WITH FREE GIFT FN £25
#401 VG/FN WITH FREE GIFT VF £30 SOLD