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Sometimes I miss being able to walk into a newsagent's shop and buying some of the various comics titles that were around when I was growing up. Whether it's TV Century 21, Sparky, Smash!, Buster, Whizzer & Chips, Thunder, etc., it's just a shame they ceased publication many years back now. One comic I also purchased from time-to-time was TV Comic, though I didn't start buying it regularly until it became Mighty TV Comic in the late '70s. (And I still have my original issues from that time.)
However, the comic I bought was pretty unrecognisable (name aside) from when it first appeared in 1951. Those early issues had no Mighty Moth, no TV Terrors, no Texas Ted - Big Hat, Big Head, nor any of the strips based on the later popular TV shows that became most associated with it. So as a special treat to those who bought the periodical in the '60s and '70s and remember it fondly, I've published the complete first issue (8 pages) so that you can see how different the comic was to the one you knew.
Feel free to chip in with your thoughts, observations, and opinions on this 71 year old comic from yesteryear, as well as any of the later incarnations you knew in your youth. (Click on images to enlarge, then click again for optimum size.) The issue, from my own collection, is one I've owned for many years now, but as far as I remember, this is the first time I've shown it in its entirety.
