British Update: Long Hot Summer AND Free Gift Farrago Event – Twinkle, Twinkle…
*Younger Readers’ Comics: Twinkle, the picture paper especially for pre-school girls, saw off a plethora of imitators and had a very respectable run, from 1968 to 1999, with Patsy Panda, Witch Winkle and our eponymous heroine enjoying low-impact adventures till the early days of the 21st Century, thanks to the continuing Summer Specials. We have a range of later Free Gift or special issues of Twinkle, from #1000 in 1987, (which came with no fewer than five different books – collect the set!) the 25th Anniversary Special, the 1500th issue, and the very final, #1637 in 1999, many of these issues festooned with stickers, books, colouring books, friendship bracelets, and the highly-prized Polly Penguin Glove Puppet! (Now, now; calm down…) Twinkle’s star wasn’t quite snuffed out with her final weekly, however, as the Summer/Holiday Specials continued, and we have a lot of later Specials to offer, from 1981’s Summer Special to 2005’s Holiday Special – so all you Nurse Nancy completists, you know who to call!