*TV & Film Related Comics: 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 even in the second issue from 1971 reflects that, not just in the heavy presence throughout of Magpie presenters Susan Stranks and co., but in the Free Gift, which is a part of a cardboard diorama of the Magpie TV studio (the first part having been presented with the premiere issue)! Comics content 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. We also have an issue from the second year, 1972 (#16 – Look-In started its numbering again every year, a practise which has confused and infuriated generations of collectors), with a Free Gift ‘Apollo Mission’ badge, in cardboard. Hopefully, NASA itself managed something a bit more durable…
PICTURED: LOOK-IN
1971 #2 VG GIFT VF £50
1972 #16 FN GIFT VF £20