*Girls’ Comics: In 1961, June was launched by IPC/Fleetway with genteel photo-covers, safe features like ‘Cookery Nook’, and a cheerful willingness to over-emphasize the Royal Family. Basically it came across, intentionally, as a version of their popular paper Princess, but on cheaper paper. However, the spirited comic strips that were to make it a juggernaut for a decade were there – ‘Kathy of Marvin Grange’, ‘Black Pearls of Taboo Island’, ‘When Did You Last See Your Father?’ and more, promising adventures in exotic locales, distant history, and, er, boarding school. (Well, that was a pretty exotic experience for most of its readers…) We are pleased to have three of the early issues which launched June’s long career; issue #2 comes with the Free Gift – an album of Royal pets – that originally graced its cover, but with all the pictures, including those given away in later issues, already stuck in for your comfort and convenience. The second issue is FA, with Free Gift GD+, at £40; issue #3, an Easter number, is GD £25 and the fourth issue is GD £12.