*Girls’ Comics: From 1967, early issues of Tina! This trans-European project, launched in multiple language editions, was so heavily pre-sold prior to its launch that it could legitimately claim, even on the front of its debut issue, “More copies sold than any other girl’s paper in the world!”. With a strong adventure-oriented line-up, curvaceous secret agent ‘Jane Bond’ illustrated by Michael Hubbard, was the lead, and the ‘Space Girls’ (in colour, by Dan Dare illustrator Keith Watson) added a sci-fi touch. Other features which debuted here and would run for years in Tina’s remarkably stable line-up were island adventure with Brenda Burn and ‘My Chum Yum-Yum’, pop musicians ‘Jackie and the Wild Boys’, western adventuress ‘Glory Gold’, and ‘Barbie’. Yep, that Barbie. After thirty issues, Tina merged with Princess and lived a long and happy life as Princess Tina, but the earliest issues remain scarce, and we’re lucky enough to have issues #1 and #2 in a remarkable Fine condition. (Also issue #4, which has a brittle bottom – but who doesn’t at that age?)