*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: This week, we set our sights on sport, with three Summer/Holiday Specials partly or wholly themed around the sporting life. Jag Football Special, from 1968, features articles and photos of real-life football and footballers, as well as ample comic strip content. This 96-page stonker is VG, sound and firm at staples, with minimal corner and edge wear, and a slightly faded spine. Best of Billy’s Boots from 1990 is an oddity, collecting the popular strip from Scorcher long after its demise, as a one-off. This bright and tight copy is graded VF, and features a cover-touted introduction by Kathy Tayler, who was presumably famous at the time. Victor, of course, wasn’t entirely devoted to sport, but its 1971 Summer Special’s 40 pages were 50% sporty, between the Tough of the Track, the Boyhood of Lester Piggott and sundry other boxing, cricket and motor-racing stories, fronted by manly adventures and World War II heroics. These oversized Summer Specials are getting much harder to find as the years wear on, and this VG copy, though displaying minor wear from having been stored folded for many years, is bright and unfaded, staples firmly attached.
PICTURED:
BILLY’S BOOTS HOLIDAY SPECIAL 1990 VF £15 SOLD
JAG FOOTBALL SPECIAL 1968 VG £30 SOLD
VICTOR SUMMER SPECIAL 1971 VG £30 SOLD