British Update: Free Gift Farrago: Judy from #4 (1960) to 1968, with original Gifts
*Girls’ Comics: Judy, home to Wee Slavey, Nannette of the North, Bobby Dazzler and a host of others, launched in 1960 following the success of its slightly older sister Bunty, and the pair dominated the UK comics scene for several years. The promotional giveaways attached to certain issues are seldom seen with comics of this vintage, so we’re lucky to have acquired several numbers ‘bearing gifts’, beginning with 1960’s #4, and the card promoting ‘Lovely Young Dancers of 1960’; try not to dwell on how they’re all dead or pensioners by now. Issue #211 from 1964 features the lovely ‘Forget-Me-Not’ Necklace, #315 from 1966 has a mysterious sealed envelope which contains something we’re pretty sure is the cover-touted ‘Golden Heart Pendant’, and 1968’s #418 presents the ‘Blue Lagoon’ necklace – Christopher Atkins and Brooke Shields not included. Slight variations in the grades of the comics are caused by the stress on the paper of having the sometimes bulky gifts inside for decades, so the defects are only due to pressure, not tears or staining. Issue #4 is FN with Free Gift VF at £75,#211 is VG with Free Gift VF £40, #315 is FN with Free Gift VF at £45 and #418 is VG with Free Gift VF at £40.