WHIZZER & CHIPS ANNUAL COVER GALLERY - PART ONE...

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WHIZZER & CHIPS came out in October 1969 and lasted only one week past its 21st (uncelebrated) birthday issue in 1990.  The first Annual came out towards the end of 1970 (for '71), and the last one came out in 1993 (for '94) - making a total of 24 Annuals in all.  However, there was a 25th Annual in 2014 (for '15), with material reprinted from earlier books in the run.  (What a comeback, eh?  A whole 21 years after the previous Annual.)

Here then, is the first instalment in a four part series of Whizzer & Chips Annual covers, which, hopefully, you'll all enjoy.  Have you any happy memories of receiving one of these bumper books for Christmas when you were but a lad, Crivs?  Then the comments section awaits your joyous reminiscences.

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It's just hit me on re-reading this post that the weekly Whizzer & Chips will have been absent from our newsagents' counters for 25 years come October.  That of course means that it's been gone four years longer than it lasted.  Gone for a quarter of a century!  Where did the time go?  I'm numb at the thought.

The CRUNCH COVER GALLERY - PART SEVEN...

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So here we are again, with yet another instalment of The CRUNCH cover gallery - despite there seeming to be little or no interest in this D.C. THOMSON title from the late 1970s.  I guess it was exactly the same back then, otherwise the weekly periodical would've been around for longer than it was - a mere 54 issues.  Still, if you've nothing better to do, it won't kill you to take a moment to cop a gander at these pulsating piccies from yesteryear.  Is there anyone out there who remembers this comic?

   

NEVER BE WITHOUT A BEANO - ESPECIALLY ONE FROM 1954...

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Thanks to a generous benefactor, I now own issue #646 of The BEANO from 1954.  Just think - WATKINS, REID, BAXENDALE and LAW - all in one single comic.  Things seldom (if ever) got better than this, and I'm sharing these masterpieces of art with all you Criv-ites!  So - where's my BLUE PETER badge for unselfish generosity?

And just think - The BASH STREET KIDS weren't even called that then.  A slice of history, or what?!