Showing posts with label Annuals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Annuals. Show all posts

Champion Annual 1968

Champion Annual 1968 (Fleetway Publications, 1967, 160pp, 9/6. Cover by Alessandro Biffignandi)
* [Misc. Material] * Britain's Champions * ia
* [Misc. Material] * Contents * ms
4 * [Comic Strip] * The Phantom Viking * cs
10 * [Misc. Material] * Just Joking * jo
12 * Anon. * Jet Jordan * ss
17 * Anon. * Courage of a Champion * ss
20 * [Comic Strip] * Jinks * cs; art by Andre Franquin
21 * Anon. *

Hurricane Annual 1974

Hurricane Annual 1974 (IPC Magazines, 1973, 160pp, cover by Ian Kennedy)
2 * [Misc. Material] * Strange But True... They Really Flew * ia; illus. photos
3 * [Misc. Material] * Contents * ms
4 * [Comic Strip] * Hurry of the Hammers * cs
9 * [Comic Strip] * Danny Jones Time-Traveller * cs
17 * [Comic Strip] * Danger Men: The Stuntmen * cs
21 * [Comic Strip] * Sir Hector the Spectre and his Chum

Hurricane Annual 1971

Hurricane Annual 1971 (IPC Magazines, 1970, 160pp, 10/6, cover by Mario Capaldi)
2 * [Misc. Material] * Concorde - Building a Giant * il
3 * [Misc. Material] * Contents * ms
4 * [Comic Strip] * The Juggernaut of Planet Z * cs
12 * Anon. * Hurry of the Hammers * ss
18 * [Comic Strip] * H.M.S. Outcast * cs
26 * Anon. * The Test Pilots * ar; illus. photos
30 * [Comic Strip] * They Came from the Sea

Geoffrey Wheeler Cutaways in the Blue Peter Books

Geoffrey Wheeler Cutaways in Blue Peter BooksCompiled by Jeremy Briggs
Geoffrey Edmund John Wheeler was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire on 12 August 1929. After school he joined the Great Western Railway in January 1945 and later saw service in the Royal Navy serving onboard a number of ships including HMS Amethyst, a frigate remembered for being captured by Communist Chinese forces in 1949 in what

William "Tim" Timym in the Blue Peter Books

William “Tim” Timym In The Blue Peter BooksCompiled by Jeremy Briggs
William 'Tim' Timym's Bleep and Booster characters featured in the first fourteen Blue Peter books in 4 page illustrated text stories, one per book. While Bleep and Booster may be Timym's best remembered characters the annual Blue Peter Books, published to tie in with the BBC children's television series, featured more of his

Bleep and Booster

BLEEP AND BOOSTERby Jeremy Briggs
The adventures of the robot-like alien Bleep and the human boy Booster were created by Austrian artist William Timym, credited as "Tim", for the BBC children's magazine programme Blue Peter around 1963. In addition to their animated adventures on screen they also appeared in stories, all credited to Tim, in their own annuals and storybooks as well as the annual