British Update: Free Gift Farrago! Look-In #1 (1971) with Free Gift
*TV & Film Related Comics: From 1971, the very first issue of Look-In! The ‘Junior TV Times’ entertained a generation of readers with its features and photos on popular TV series of the era, plus comic-strip adaptations of the hottest series. What’s little known is that, virtually right up until publication, the mag was originally going to be called ‘Magpie’, and the content in this first issue reflects that, not just in the heavy presence throughout of Magpie presenters Susan Stranks and co., but in the Free Gift, which is a cardboard diorama of the Magpie TV studio! Comics content in this premiere issue includes “Please Sir!”, “The Freewheelers”, “Crowther In Trouble”, and “Wreckers at Dead Eye”, which will be greeted by nostalgia or bafflement depending on the age of the reader, but the comics highlight is a rather lovely “Timeslip” strip by Angus Allan and Mike Noble. This copy of issue 1 is a decent VG condition, an upper spine split preventing a higher grade, but the accompanying free gift is in sparkling VF. Yours for £100.