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In January 1973, D. C. Thomson launched a new weekly humour comic for children into a market that already looked pretty crowded; they were a...

The second Lone Wolf gamebook, Fire on the Water , is quite heavy on setting up the series' lore, and features an expansive plot where ...

Snip and Snap , D. C. Thomson's original duo of postman-pillorying dogs, enjoyed a stint in the Sparky for just shy of two years, from ...

This is the very first edition of The Haunted Wood , a strip which appeared in Fleetway's Knockout across its two-year run from June 197...

This is a very early example of Ali's Baba , a strip which appeared in D. C. Thomson's Sparky from January 1970 up until the comic...

In March 1983, the very third Fighting Fantasy gamebook, The Forest of Doom , was published in the UK. I'm aware it's a story I...

One of the newest strips in the weekly Beano , Rubi's Screwtop Science , started life in CBBC's 2016 series Dennis & Gnasher: Un...

The author was delighted not only to see a copy of this edition again, but also to learn that the entire series is now on YouTube. Which may...