British Update: Lion Summer Spectacular Epic 1967 x2!!!
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: You know how it is, you wait around for ages for one, and then two turn up at once! A Rara Avis of the comic world this, the forerunner of the Lion Summer/Holiday Special which started in 1968, this extra-thick one-off from 1967 didn’t actually feature any of the Lion regulars, but rather adaptations and articles on ‘the Greatest Films Ever Made’, as the cover boasts. These include Thunderbirds Are Go, Batman, The Lost World, Tobruk, Quo Vadis, You Only Live Twice and others. Amazingly, this week we have 2 copies new in, in very different grades: firstly a FN/VF example (left), with just very minor spine and edge wear, likely to be the best copy you’ll ever see at £100; the second is GD at £40 (right), a bit more worn with stress at staples and very minor ink marks in four interior locations. You pays yer money and you takes yer choice. We don’t expect either to hang around for very long!