British Update: If You Knew Suzy…
*Girls’ Comics: If you did know Suzy, you’re apparently in quite a small and select club, as, for a series that ran at least 230-something issues from 1982 to 1987, it’s curiously un-remembered. A slick magazine from D C Thomson, a sort of half-way house between Bunty and Jackie, it featured a mix of traditional comic strips, photo-strips (adventure themed rather than romantic, from a more innocent time when photographers taking kids off to warehouses was less likely to be met with restraining orders) and pop features, never afraid to over-sell Adam Ant and Bucks Fizz! Along the way, it incorporated the companion paper Tops (sometimes known as TV Tops), making very little difference to its profile, as it was always media-heavy anyway. Eventually, after a perfectly respectable run, Suzy stumbled into the jaws of Bunty, in turn making very little difference to the ‘host’ title – the eponymous hostess co-starred on Bunty’s front page for five or six issues, and then every trace of Suzy was gone as if it had never been. We have 24 copies of this amnesia-inducing curiosity available for purchase, from 1982’s #2 to 1986’s #177. Check our online catalogue for details, before the Mists of Lethe overwhelm us all…