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Several posts back, I showed you a Phantom Viking strip from the Champion Annual for 1968. If you remember, I said I may show the second PV strip from the Annual, which is a mix of full and spot colour. Well, I'm nothing if not a man of my word, so here's that very strip, scanned at the risk of damaging the book so I hope you all appreciate it.
Are you old enough to remember ol' Vikie, and did you think he was just a rip-off of Thor? Then feel entirely entitled to express your opinion in our free-to-enter comments section! I repeat - free-to-enter - so where is everybody? (Hey, I'll even settle for anybody.)
I loved this Viking hero Kid. I recall him vividly in one of my annuals. I think it was Lion 1969 maybe? he fights some hoodlums dressed as clowns and driving whacky balloon like cars. Trouble is in my cabbaged brain I get it mixed up with a story sponsored by shoes or buttons, Ladybird?, that may have been in the same tome. I have it in the attic somewhere!
ReplyDeleteThere's another couple of Phantom Viking stories on the blog, Woodsy - one of them from the 1968 Lion Annual, but it's a different story to the one you mention. I'm sure that readers who encountered PV first, must've considered Marvel's Thor a rip-off of Olaf's alter-ego.
ReplyDeleteYour post sent me looking for my Lion 1969 Annual and I re-read The Phantom Viking in bed last night like I did back in December 69! PV fights the Jester and his gang of clowns. Fabulous stuff and the only colour strip in the whole annual. PV must have been popular!
ReplyDeleteI'll have to keep an eye out for that 1969 Annual - if I don't already have it. That's the trouble - I have so much stuff, I sometimes forget what I've got and what I've not got. Bet it was just like being a kid again, re-reading that PV story, eh?
ReplyDeleteIts the one with the large red walking robot log-grabber on the front Kid. I was a blast reading it. It's not my original annual. I have very little from my childhood. Its inscribed to a young boy from his Aunty and Uncle Xmas 1969. Quite poignant really reading something that was no doubt treasured by that boy at Christmas 1969. I've often wondered if a book owner service would be of value, tracking and tracing old owners where they are inscribed inside books and annuals. having said that there must be a reason why they end up at car boot sales and in charity shops where I find them 50 years later.
ReplyDeleteApart from some '70s Annuals, all mine are replacements, though I've now had them for many more years than the originals - some of them for 30-plus years in fact. I always wonder when I see an inscription to a kid in a book, whether it was him or his parents who gave it away. Too many parents seem to think that their kids are too old for certain things when they get into their teenage years and get rid of them. (The things, not the kids.) I touched on the poignancy of some inscriptions in a post about a Yogi Bear book, but I can't remember what the post is called at the moment.
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