British Update: Tales to hold you… Spellbound!
*Girls’ Comics: In 1976, D.C.Thomson launched Spellbound, a new girls’ weekly with a supernatural/science-fiction twist, as every serial had elements of the unearthly. Lead feature, of course, was the interplanetary squad of adventuresses, “The Supercats”, who used their amazing powers to right intergalactic wrongs, while wearing skintight outfits and striking cheesecake poses, courtesy of artists the Romero Studios. But whether dealing with suddenly shrunken suburban families (“Dangerous Days for the Tiny Taylors”), Midwich Cuckoo-like intruders at a boarding school (“The Strange Ones”), spooky retail adventures (“The Shop at Shudder Corner”), or horror that was purely psychological (“Poison penny”), the Spellbound team pulled out all the stops and generated genuinely memorable stories – so much so that they inspired rivals IPC/Fleetway to launch their imitator, Misty! We have new stock in between issues 17 and 33 of Spellbound, and a couple of later editions, 18 additions in total.