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 published weekly between November 9, 1951 and June 29, 1984 for 1,697 issues. With its bright, eye-catching covers, it featured stories based on television shows running at the time of publication. The first issue had 8 pages and had Muffin the Mule

Muffin the Mule

Muffin the Mule is a puppet character in British television programmes for children. The original programmes featuring the character were presented by Annette Mills, sister of John Mills, & aunt to Hayley Mills, and broadcast live by the BBC from their studios at Alexandra Palace from 1946 to 1952...

 on the cover. It also contained other TV favourites of the day including Mr. Pastry

Richard Hearne

Richard Lewis Hearne, OBE was an English actor, comedian, producer and writer. He was famous for his stage and television character Mr Pastry.-Career:...

, Larry the Lamb

Toytown

Toytown was a British radio series for children, based around a set of puppets created by SG Hulme Beaman, broadcast by the BBC for Children's Hour, which ran from 17:00 to 18:00 on the Home Service. There were also some short films made during the 1970s which were broadcast on ITV...

, Tom Puss, Prince Valiant (Hal Foster reprint) Jack & Jill, Prudence Kitten, Tusker & Tikki and Hank. The letters page article was called 'Lets be gay' and hosted by Jennifer who also introduced Children's TV back in the day.

The first decade of the comic clearly aimed its readership at younger Children. As well as Muffin the Mule (which ran for nearly ten years, initially on the cover until 1955, but later had to contain itself to just half a page in black & white), other 1950s favourites of the time included; Sooty

Sooty

Sooty is a British glove puppet bear and TV character popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. The children's television show which bears his name has continued in various forms since the 1950s and, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is the...

, Coco the Clown

Nicolai Poliakoff

Nicolai Poliakoff OBE was the creator of Coco the Clown, arguably the most famous clown in the UK during the middle decades of the 20th century. Technically, Coco is not a clown but an auguste, the foolish character who is always on the receiving end of buckets of water and custard pies...

, Noddy and Lenny the Lion

Terry Hall (ventriloquist)

Terry Hall , born Terence Hall, was an English ventriloquist. He appeared regularly on television with his puppet, Lenny the Lion, whose catchphrase was "Aw, don't embawass me!" Hall is credited as being one of the first ventriloquists to use a non-human puppet.Hall was born in Chadderton,...

. Each issue also featured a page of readers' letters and photographs.

As the decade passed so the comic began to have a slightly more 'grown up' feel to it, with stories like Treasure Island

Treasure Island

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, The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West. The character has become an enduring icon of American culture....

 and Black Beauty

Black Beauty

Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her first and only...

 all gracing the pages for a time. Text stories also began to appear with religious themes such as 'Jesus and the Bible'.

The 1960s were probably the 'Golden Age' of the comic. It is notable for printing Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

 stories from 1964 to 1979 (except for 1971 to 1973 when he was in Countdown/TV Action).
It also featured strip cartoons for the early Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson MBE is a British publisher, producer, director and writer, famous for his futuristic television programmes, particularly those involving specially modified marionettes, a process called "Supermarionation"....

 TV shows Four Feather Falls

Four Feather Falls

Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, from an idea by Barry Gray.-Production:The show was made on a tight budget and could not afford sophisticated special effects...

, Supercar

Supercar

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 and Fireball XL5

Fireball XL5

Fireball XL5 is a science fiction-themed children's television show following the missions of spaceship Fireball XL5, commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol...

.

The 1960s issues are also noted as being the most collectable period of the comic's history. As well as Doctor Who and the Gerry Anderson strips, other highly collectable material included; Telegoons which ran from 1963 to 1967, Space Patrol which ran from 1964 to 1965 and The Avengers which ran initially from 1965 to 1966 and again from 1968 to 1972.

A number of annuals and holiday specials were also issued over the years, including special editions concentrating on characters such as The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bungling French police detective Jacques Clouseau that began in 1963 with the release of the film of the same name. The role was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers...

 and Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.Tom and Jerry also may refer to:Cartoon works featuring the cat and mouse so named:* The Tom and Jerry Show...

.

Originally started by Beaverbrook, TV Comic was eventually published by Polystyle Publications

Polystyle Publications

Polystyle Publications were a British publisher of children's comics and books.Among the titles they published were:* BEEB * Buttons * Countdown/TV Action * I-Spy* Pippin * Playland * Read To Me...

 for much of its run. Editors included Dick Millington (who also edited Pippin

Pippin (comics)

Pippin was a UK children's comic, published by Polystyle Publications between 24.09.1966 and 26.09.1986, featuring characters from British pre-school television programmes...

 and created Mighty Moth), Robin Tucheck and John Lynott. Artists included Bill Titcombe, John Canning, Neville Main, H Watts, Gerry Haylock, Mike Lacey, and Steve Maher.

TV shows featured

• Adam Adamant
• Animal Magic
• Astronut
  The Astronut Show
  The Astronut Show was a syndicated animated television series produced by the Terrytoons animation studio. It first aired on August 23, 1965. Each episode included an episode of Astronut and Luno The White Stallion, plus another cartoon from the Terrytoons stable.Astronut first appeared on the...
  
  
• The A-Team
  The A-Team
  The A-Team is an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel who work as soldiers of fortune, while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit". The A-Team was created by...
  
  
• The Avengers
  The Avengers (TV series)
  The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants...
  
  
• Barney Bear
  Barney Bear
  Barney Bear was a series of animated cartoon short subjects produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. The titular character was an anthropomorphic cartoon character, a sluggish, sleepy bear who often is in pursuit of nothing but peace and quiet....
  
  
• Basil Brush
  Basil Brush
  Basil Brush is a fictional anthropomorphic fox raconteur, best known for his appearances on daytime British children's television. He is primarily portrayed by a glove puppet, but has also been depicted in animated cartoon shorts and comic strips...
  
  
• Battle of the Planets
  Battle of the Planets
  Battle of the Planets is an American animated television adaptation of the Japanese anime series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman . Of the 105 original Gatchaman episodes, 85 were used in the Battle of the Planets adaptation, produced by Sandy Frank Entertainment...
  
  
• Bob Monkhouse's Mad Movies featuring the Keystone Kops
• Bootsie and Snudge
  Bootsie and Snudge
  Bootsie and Snudge was a British television situation comedy series written, in the early days, by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, later writers were John Antrobus, Jack Rosenthal, ventriloquist Ray Alan and Harry Driver. The show featured Clive Dunn, more famous as Corporal Jones in Dad's Army, as...
  
  
• Bugs Bunny
  Bugs Bunny
  Bugs Bunny is a animated character created in 1938 at Leon Schlesinger Productions, later Warner Bros. Cartoons. Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray rabbit and is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality and his portrayal as a trickster. He has primarily appeared in animated cartoons, most...
  
  
• Buzby
  Buzby
  Buzby was a yellow talking cartoon bird, launched in 1976 as a marketing campaign by the then Post Office Telecommunications, which later became British Telecommunications . Buzby appeared in a series of television commercials with the catchphrase: "Make someone happy with a phone call"...
  
  
• Cannon
  Cannon (TV series)
  Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976.The primary protagonist was the title character, Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad....
  
  
• Captain Pugwash
  Captain Pugwash
  Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate in a series of British children's comic strips and books created by John Ryan. The character's adventures were adapted into a TV series, using cardboard cut-outs filmed in live-action , also called Captain Pugwash, first shown on the BBC in 1957, a later colour...
  
  
• Catweazle
  Catweazle
  Catweazle was a British television series, created and written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for London Weekend Television under the LWI banner, and screened in the UK on ITV in 1970 and 1971...
  
  
• Charlie's Angels
  Charlie's Angels
  Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men...
  
  
• Dad's Army
  Dad's Army
  Dad's Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The series ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio series, a feature film and a stage show...
  
  
• Deputy Dawg
  Deputy Dawg
  Deputy Dawg is a Terrytoons cartoon character featured on the animated television series of the same name in an original TV weekly run from 8 September 1962 to 25 May 1963, with no episodes on 8 December to 29 December 1962, resuming on 5 January 1963. The cartoons are between four and six minutes...
  
  
• The Dickie Henderson Family
• Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
  
  
• Droopy
• The Dukes of Hazzard
  The Dukes of Hazzard
  The Dukes of Hazzard is an American television series that aired on the CBS television network from 1979 to 1985.The series was inspired by the 1975 film Moonrunners, which was also created by Gy Waldron and had many identical or similar character names and concepts.- Overview :The Dukes of Hazzard...
  
  
• Fireball XL5
  Fireball XL5
  Fireball XL5 is a science fiction-themed children's television show following the missions of spaceship Fireball XL5, commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol...
  
  
• The Flaxton Boys
  The Flaxton Boys
  The Flaxton Boys is a British historical children's television series set in the West Riding of Yorkshire and covering a timespan of almost a century. The series was made by Yorkshire Television and was broadcast on ITV between 1969 and 1973, running for 4 series and 52 episodes, each of 30...
  
  
• Foo Foo and GoGo
• Four Feather Falls
  Four Feather Falls
  Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, from an idea by Barry Gray.-Production:The show was made on a tight budget and could not afford sophisticated special effects...
  
  
• H%C3%A4gar the Horrible
• How?
  How 2
  How 2 was an informative children's programme produced by TVS between 1990 and 1992, and STV Productions from 1993 to 2006....
  
  
• The Inspector
  The Inspector
  The Inspector is a series of 1960s theatrical cartoons produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and released through United Artists. The titular character is based on Jacques Clouseau, a comical French police officer who is the main character in the Pink Panther series of films.-Plot:Although the...
  
  
• Ken Dodd's Diddymen
  Diddy Men
  The Diddy Men are commonly believed to be a creation of the British comedian Ken Dodd. However, they have existed in local mythology for much longer and, along with the Treacle and Jam Butty Mines of Knotty Ash, had been referred to in the earlier act of another Liverpool comedian Arthur Askey...
  
  
• Kojak
  Kojak
  Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier...
  
  
• Larry the Lamb
• Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...
  
  
• Lenny the Lion
  Terry Hall (ventriloquist)
  Terry Hall , born Terence Hall, was an English ventriloquist. He appeared regularly on television with his puppet, Lenny the Lion, whose catchphrase was "Aw, don't embawass me!" Hall is credited as being one of the first ventriloquists to use a non-human puppet.Hall was born in Chadderton,...
  
  
• Mr. Merlin
  Mr. Merlin
  Mr. Merlin, a Larry Larry Company Production in association with Columbia Pictures Television, was a 1981–82 sitcom starring Barnard Hughes as Merlin the wizard, disguised as Max Merlin, a mechanic in modern-day San Francisco.-Plot:...
  
  
• The Milky Bar Kid
• Muffin the Mule
  Muffin the Mule
  Muffin the Mule is a puppet character in British television programmes for children. The original programmes featuring the character were presented by Annette Mills, sister of John Mills, & aunt to Hayley Mills, and broadcast live by the BBC from their studios at Alexandra Palace from 1946 to 1952...
  
  
• Orlando
  Orlando (TV series)
  Orlando is a British television thriller series for young adults which ran for four series between 1965 and 1968. Made by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network, it stars Sam Kydd as Orlando O'Connor, the character he had played in the adult television series Crane.-Cast:-External links:* at...
  
  
• The Pink Panther Show
  The Pink Panther Show
  The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of cartoon shorts produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng between 1969 and 1979. The television series was produced by Mirisch Films and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, and was broadcast on two American TV networks:...
  
  
• Popeye
  Popeye
  Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, who has appeared in comic strips and animated cartoons in the cinema as well as on television. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929...
  
  
• Road Runner
  Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
  Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner are a duo of cartoon characters from a series of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. The characters were created by animation director Chuck Jones in 1948 for Warner Bros., while the template for their adventures was the work of writer Michael Maltese...
  
  
• Rod Hull and Emu
• Roobarb
  Roobarb
  Roobarb is a British animated television programme for children, originally shown on BBC1 just before the evening news. Each cartoon, written by Grange Calveley and animated by Bob Godfrey, was about five minutes long. Thirty episodes were made, and the show was first shown on October 21, 1974...
  
  
• Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
  Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
  Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series for children created by John McCallum, produced from 1966–1968, telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, in the Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.Ninety-one 30-minute...
  
  
• Sooty
  Sooty
  Sooty is a British glove puppet bear and TV character popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. The children's television show which bears his name has continued in various forms since the 1950s and, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is the...
  
  
• Space Patrol
  Space Patrol (1962 TV series)
  Space Patrol is a science-fiction television series featuring marionettes that was produced in the United Kingdom in 1962. It was written and produced by Roberta Leigh in association with the Associated British Corporation.-Summary:...
  
  
• Star Trek
  Star Trek: The Original Series
  Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...
  
  
• Supercar
  Supercar
  Supercar is a term used most often to describe an expensive high end car. It has been defined specifically as "a very expensive, fast or powerful car"...
  
  
• Tales of the Gold Monkey
  Tales of the Gold Monkey
  Tales of the Gold Monkey is a 1982 television show broadcast by ABC. Most critics saw it as the network's attempt to capitalize on the fame of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark the previous year, in the same vein as Bring 'Em Back Alive on CBS...
  
  
• Target
• Tarzan
  Tarzan
  Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes"; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer...
  
  
• The Telegoons
  The Telegoons
  The Telegoons was a BBC television comedy puppet show adapted from the highly successful BBC radio comedy show of the 1950s, The Goon Show. Two series of 13 episodes were made. The series was briefly repeated immediately after its original run, and all episodes are known to have survived...
  
  
• Tom and Jerry
  Tom and Jerry
  Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.Tom and Jerry also may refer to:Cartoon works featuring the cat and mouse so named:* The Tom and Jerry Show...
  
  

Non-TV shows featured

• Arthur!
• The Bakers' Dozen
• Beetle Bailey
  Beetle Bailey
  Beetle Bailey is an American comic strip set in a fictional United States Army military post, created by cartoonist Mort Walker. It is among the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator...
  
  
• Coco the Clown
• Dad
• Mighty Moth
• TV Terrors - Cuthbert, Buttons and Monica, and their nemesis Hoppit
• Texas Ted
• The Incredible Bulk

Changing format

From the start, TV Comic featured a mixture of colour and black-and-white pages, and this continued throughout its publication. In common with other British children's comics, it absorbed other less successful titles during its run, including TV Land and TV Express in 1962, TV Action (formerly Countdown) in 1973, Tom and Jerry Weekly in 1974 (Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.Tom and Jerry also may refer to:Cartoon works featuring the cat and mouse so named:* The Tom and Jerry Show...

 already featured in TV Comic) and the short-lived Target in 1978.

TV Comic had quite a tempestuous history towards the end of its life. In 1976 it was relaunched as Mighty TV Comic (issue 1292), switching to a large tabloid format. Although the pages were larger, the content did not increase, with the frames of many strips just blown up to a larger size. The first two issues were accompanied by a smaller "Mighty Midget" supplement. Presumably this didn't achieve the sales increases hoped for, as two years later the comic reverted to an A4 format (issue 1377), on cheap newsprint. Although the paper quality eventually improved, the comic came to rely heavily on reprints of older material, or using scripts from old strips with new characters. The only notable, collectable and original strip of this period was perhaps 'Battle of the Planets' (drawn by former Dan Dare artist Keith Watson) which ran from 1981-1983.

It finally closed, after 33 years, in 1984 due to falling sales. The last issue (a shadow of its former self, with a fairly crudely drawn cartoon picture of the Prince and Princess of Wales) had no warning inside of its demise or of it being merged with another comic. It just failed to appear the following week, although both ‘The A Team' and 'Tales of the Gold Monkey' strips, which had been running, said 'The End'. A rather sad end to this once great comic.

Notable issues

Issue 1 (09/11/51) 1st Muffin the Mule (drawn by Neville Main) cover. Prince Valiant (drawn by Hal Foster) begins a short run until issue 44 (05/09/52).
Issue 192 (09/07/55) Sooty (drawn by Tony Hart) took over full time on the cover, although it had appeared occasionally as a ‘Special number’ on the cover since earlier in the year.


Issue 267 (15/12/56) 1st Enid Blyton’s ‘Noddy’ begins. It starts off it’s two year run on the cover, before finishing inside issue 371 (13/12/58).
Issue 345 (14/06/58) 1st Lenny the Lion (drawn by Bill Mevin) cover.
(The Lenny the Lion cover era produced some of the most elaborate and colourful Christmas and Bonfire cover issues).
Issue 384 (14/03/59). TV Comic's longest running strip Mighty Moth (drawn by Dick Millington) first appeared (but never in strip form on the cover) and ran until the comic finished.
Issue 439 (14/05/60) the first of 3 early Gerry Anderson shows 'Four Feather Falls' (drawn by Neville Main) began having recently started on TV and ran until issue 564 (06/10/62).
Issue 444 (18/06/60) The Lone Ranger (drawn by Mike Noble) begins and ran until issue 507 (02/09/61).
Issue 456 (10/09/60) 1st Popeye (drawn initially by Chick Henderson) cover. The strip had started inside issue 449 (23/07/60), but even after Popeye was dropped from the cover, the strip continued inside the comic into the 1980's.
Issue 482 (11/03/61) was the last appearance of Muffin the Mule in TV Comic as he quietly slipped from the pages in only a half page b/w strip.
Issue 483 (18/03/61) another Gerry Anderson favourite and probably the most collectable Supercar (drawn initially by H Watts and later Bill Mevin) started. It ran until issue 667 (26/09/64).
Issue 508 (09/09/61) The Range Rider (drawn by Mike Noble/Ron Embleton?) begins and ran until issue 658 (25/07/64).
Issue 565 (13/10/62) the 3rd and last Gerry Anderson strip to appear in TV Comic was Fireball XL5 (drawn by Neville Main) and ran until issue 672 (31/10/64).
Issue 619 (26/10/63) Telegoons (drawn by Bill Titcombe) appeared until issue 787 (14/01/67).
Issue 668 (03/10/64) Space Patrol (drawn by Bill Mevin) always in full colour in the centre pages ran until issue 719 (25/09/65).
Issue 674 (14/11/64) Doctor Who begins (Initially drawn by Neville Main) it first ran (apart from a brief period away for a few issues at the end of 1969) until issue 999 (06/02/71) then transfers to 'Countdown' comic.
Issue 720 (02/10/65) The Avengers (by Pat Williams) begins its first run until issue 771 (24/09/66). Also first Doctor Who colour centrespread (now drawn by Bill Mevin, later from issue 748 by John Canning).
Issue 788 (21/01/67) 1st Doctor Who cover (drawn by John Canning). This was a six-month period of Doctor Who and the Daleks covers which are perhaps some of the most collectable issues.
Issue 810 (24/06/67) 1st Ken Dodd's Diddymen (drawn by Bill Titcombe) cover.
Issue 877 (05/1//68) The Avengers return and run until issue 1078 (12/08/72).
Issue 909 (17/05/69) 1st Tom & Jerry (drawn by Bill Titcombe) cover.
Issue 1058 (25/03/72) Dads Army (drawn by Bill Titcombe begins its first run until issue 1100 (13/01/73) and transfers to ‘TV Action’.
Issue 1133 (01/09/73) ‘TV Action’ merges with TV Comic. Dads Army returns until issue 1275 (22/05/76) and Doctor Who also returns (drawn by Gerry Haylock and later by Martin Asbury).
Issue 1292 (18/09/76) 1st tabloid style 'Mighty TV Comic'. Free Dr Who mighty midget comic book. Star Trek (Gold key reprints) features until issue 1382 (09/06/78).
Issue 1377 (05/05/78) Returns to original comic format. Cover stars vary from Pink Panther to Charlie's Angels, Buzby and Scooby Doo amongst others.
Issue 1393 (25/08/78) 1st 'TV Comic incorporating Target'. Charlie's Angels begins (drawn by John Canning) until issue 1451 (05/10/79).
Issue 1430 (11/05/79) Final issue with Doctor Who - since issue 1386 the strip had been John Canning reprints with The Doctor redrawn as Tom Baker.
Issue 1530 (17/04/81) Battle of the Planets (drawn by Keith Watson) begins until issue 1671 (30/12/83).
Issue 1656 (16/09/83) Tales of the Gold Monkey (drawn by Geoff Campion) begins and finishes in the last ever issue of TV Comic 1697 (29/06/84).

External links

• Comic Book DB - TV Comic (1951)
• TV Comic annuals
• Memories of TV Comic
• TV Comic Strips - First Doctor
• TV Comic Strips - Second Doctor
• TV Comic Strips - Third Doctor
• TV Comic Strips - Fourth Doctor
• Star Trek Gold Key reprints
• Tales of the Gold Monkey - TV Comic
• TV Comic guide - The Avengers
• Examples of Bill Titcombe's work in TV Comic
• Dick Millington
• Space Patrol in TV Comic
• Four Feather Falls in TV Comic
• Fireball XL5 in TV Comic
• Supercar in TV Comic