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It was 43 years ago that something came to an end, though I didn't know about it at the time and didn't learn of the sad event until many years (perhaps even decades) after the fact. Look And Learn first hit newsagents' shelves in January 1962 and finally breathed its last in April 1982, not even granted the courtesy of being merged with another weekly magazine as was usually the case with IPC Magazines.
I've been looking to acquire the last issue for a good while now and it finally landed on my hall carpet this afternoon. The periodical lasted for three months past 20 years, though seemed to have been around for much longer as 20 years doesn't seem a very long time in retrospect from this old man's perspective. (I suppose if I were still only in my early 20s, the same span would seem like practically forever.)
Anyway, thought I'd show you the cover of the final issue (and the 'special message' from the editor), as well as the cover of the one that started it all, which I acquired a fair number of years ago. Not long after buying a facsimile of the debut issue, an original came into my possession, so it's nice to have both. Were any of you ever Look And Learn readers, Crivs? Then feel free to share your memories with your fellow members.
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I didn't realise L&L was published into the 1980s. I only ever read the odd issue at the time if there was a copy at the dentists or at primary school. I actually missed the wonderful Trigan Empire strip until it was reprinted in the Scottish edition of Vulcan, what a great strip one of the best ever (imho) of the genre. I have a few collections of Trigan Empire but have never seen a 1983 annual. Thats a great issue for your collection
And it contains the last ever episode of The Trigan Empire, McS, though Rebellion have done a new story just recently, I believe. Keep your eye out for my next post (completed and sitting in my draft file) as you get a mention.
I read it from the first issue for around five years. I was always fond of history and the style of writing in L&L was livelier than text books. Plus the colour art was terrific. Many years later I have two pieces of original art by Ron Embleton that appeared in L&L.
I used to own a double spread of L&L art, T47, but sold it many years ago. I think there might be a picture of it on the blog somewhere. If not, one day I'll dig out the issue it was in (which I've got) and show what it was.
I never bought L&L but I did read the odd copy in school and I recall a neighbour having a copy. I mainly remember it for The Trigan Empire but I also remember an article about the Olympics in Ancient Greece which was accompanied by a painting of a group of naked men in a race and let's just say nothing was left to the imagination - I was amazed at the graphic nudity considering L&L was a kids' magazine!
That's the ancient Greeks for you, CJ - always flaunting their bits at everyone. I wonder whether L&L ever showed naked women full frontal? I'd have subscribed.
I also never bought L&L but on my weekly Saturday trip to the library, I'd grab their copy, leaf straight to The Trigan Empire for a read and then put it back in the rack. History wasn't a favourite subject of mine back then!
Like many another long-lasting (now long-gone) weekly periodical, it was once such a prominent feature of the 'landscape' that it's a shame it's not around anymore, PG.
I graduated to Look & Learn when Ranger (which I'd collected from issue #1) merged with Look & Learn (around 1968?). I then got Look & Learn every week, although I'd stopped reading it by around 1970/71 when my comics allegiance was transferred to DC comics. Ranger was a great comic for boys.
I never bought Ranger at the time, B, but I have several issues given to me by an IPC editor back around the mid-'80s. If I recall rightly, that's where Asterix first appeared in the UK under another name. If you type Asterix into my blog's search box, it should take you to a post I did years ago about the subject.
Actually, that's a lie - he appeared in Valiant a year earlier (1963) under yet another name before he appeared in Ranger.
From my hazy memory of Asterix in Ranger, I believe the strip was called "In The Days of Good Queen Cleo", and that Asterix was called Beric and the druid was Peric, and Obelix was Son of Boadicea. I may be totally off beam on that. I will now go and take a look at your Asterix blog...
I don't think it was called 'In The Days Of Good Queen Cleo', B, though that might have been an introductory line to the title.
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