MISSING YOU...

Stressed out by the cares of the day?  Dig out your headphones, plug in, and feel all your tensions melt away to the velvet tones of the finest balladeer of the 20th century - JIM REEVES.  Honest, this is relaxation at its finest - you'll never hear a smoother, soothing singing voice than Gentleman Jim's.

TWENTY-NINE YEARS? WHO GIVES A HOOT...?

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Recently, I posted the complete issue of HOOT #1 on this blog so that those of you who bought it as kids could re-acquaint yourselves with its treasures, and to show those who weren't around at the time just what they missed.  Hoot came out at a time when I was mainly buying only the first three, free-gift issues of any new British comic (unless it was one I really wanted to collect in its entirety), but for some reason I missed #2, so only had the first and third issues, along with #10, which was the Christmas number, in my collection.

Not any more!  Today I took possession of that second ish, thereby fulfilling my original, nearly 29 year old intention of acquiring the first three issues.  It may have taken me almost 30 years (28 and a half, to be a tad more precise), but I got there in the end.  Here's the cover and some of the interior pages so that you can all rejoice along with me in my 'new' acquisition.