British Update: The Last Days Of June: June weekly from 1972 and 1974, including Final Issue
*Girls’ Comics: By the 1970s, June, once the juggernaut of IPC/Fleetway’s girls’ line, was looking a little dated and quaint, having had its crown usurped by the upstart Tammy and her streetwise ways. Nevertheless, June’s latter years saw, in addition to reliable comedy standbys ‘Bessie Bunter’ and ‘Lucky’s Living Doll’, an uptick in Tammy-inspired tragedy stories about terrible illnesses, afflictions, cruel stepparents, abandonments, betrayals, and other fun stuff, often beautifully drawn. Latter June issues are less commonplace, and we’re happy to have two batches in, one from 1972, and June’s final year of 1974, including the very final issue, GD at £9. A chance to fill in those elusive later gaps from years previously unrepresented in our inventory!