*Girls’ Comics: Launched in 1967 in the wake of her elder siblings Bunty & Judy, Mandy, despite the relentlessly can-do attitude of its eponymous heroine, seemed to specialise in stories which were generally moralistic in tone, with long-suffering heroines finally achieving happiness, while villainous relatives or girls who were liars, cheats and bullies received their comeuppance — good hearty fare for its intended audience! We’ve recently acquired the second and third issues of Mandy accompanied by their original Free Gifts. In the case of issue #2, the comic itself is Fine, with the Free Gift – a ‘Mandy bracelet’ beaded on elastic to stretch to size – still in the original polythene pocket at VF. Issue #3’s gift was a little more complex: a ‘Mandy Mini-Kit’, it had a brush, nail file and comb all in one. The copy of #3 is GD, with a bit of ‘bumpiness’ from the gift having been stuck inside its pages, but no significant flaws. The gift itself is VG – the contents are immaculate, but the paper envelope, while never technically opened, was removed from its place between pages 10 and 11 of the comic, and the envelope is slightly torn at one end. Nevertheless, Free Gift early issues of one of the leading girls’ comics of the 1960s are not commonplace; £60 for #2 FN with Free Gift VF, and £40 for #3 GD with Free Gift VG. SORRY, THESE HAVE NOW SOLD