British Update: Quirky Corner: Space Patrol – Gold Token adaptation of Roberta Leigh’s TV series!
*TV & Film Related Comics: A genuine rarity in our ‘Quirky Corner’ this update, an adaptation of the 1962/3 TV series ‘Space Patrol’. Created by Gerry Anderson alumna Roberta Leigh (who had co-created two early Anderson series, ‘Twizzle’ and ‘Torchy’), ‘Space Patrol’ (not to be confused with the American series of the same name) in which agents of the United Galactic Organization – Captain Larry Dart and his Venusian and Martian chums, Slim and Husky – have adventures in the future of 2100. Although a ‘Space Patrol’ strip ran in TV Comic weekly, this title – also known as issue 12 of Gold Token’s ‘Super Mag’ series – appears not to reprint that, but to be original material, to the best of our knowledge. (As opposed to most of the ‘Super Mag’ series, which were reprints of American comics.) As far as we know, this is the only full-length comics adventure of the U.G.O. lads, and it’s complete with central flyer for the Gold Token series and – most importantly – the clip-and-save gift tokens neither clipped nor saved. FN at £30.