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Thursday 20 February 2014

1971 Annual...and reboots...

Hi All,

Here to complete 1971 are the strips from the 1971 Annual and also a couple of sorted errors...


1971 Annual

Cover: Roger Moore.

Strips: Please Sir! 1, Bright's Boffins 1, Please Sir! 2,
Crowther in Trouble 1, Bright's Boffins 2, Crowther in Trouble 2,
Timeslip and Please Sir! 3.

At some point I will make a checklist for the annuals.

Errata:
Issue 3 - Timeslip pg2 was backwards (now fixed)
Issue 9 - was a .zip (now a .rar)
Issue 19 - Please Sir! pg2 and Freewheelers pg1 were damaged (now fixed)
issue 22 - was a .zip (now a .rar)
issue 37 - was a .zip (now a .rar)

You can get all these fixed issues via the checklist by clicking
on the relevant pictures.



Monday 17 February 2014

1971 No's 45 and 48...

Here they are then, the last two issues from 1971, at last we have a complete year!, (well Pete had it first but we'll smooth over that one...!!!)  I need to prepare the March update but I'll get into the 1972 issues soon.

For now, checkout the issues, then see the 1971 checklist in all it's glory...

Checklist


13th November 1971 - No.45

Cover: Leslie Crowther by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Timeslip, Please Sir!,
Follyfoot, The Flaxton Boys, The Master-Stroke
and On the Buses.


4th December 1971 - No.48

Cover: Reg Varney, Stephen Lewis and
Bob Grant by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, The Flaxton Boys,
Please Sir!, Follyfoot, The Fenn Street Gang,
Sky-Jackers, Timeslip and On the Buses.


Sunday 16 February 2014

1971 No's 41 and 42...

Nearly there...here are the penultimate two issues to complete 1971, No's 41 and 42, last two soon...

Checklist


16th October 1971 - No.41

Cover: Deryck Guyler and Joan Sanderson
by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Timeslip, Please Sir!,
Follyfoot, The Flaxton Boys, Mystery of the
Moondust! and On the Buses.


23rd October 1971 - No.42

Cover: John Alderton and The Fenn Street Gang
by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Timeslip, Please Sir!,
Follyfoot, The Flaxton Boys, Mystery of the
Moondust! and On the Buses.


Friday 14 February 2014

1971 No's 38 and 40...

Here are the next two from 1971, No's 38 and 40,

Checklist


25th September 1971 - No.38

Cover: David Nixon.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Timeslip, Please Sir!,
Follyfoot, The Flaxton Boys, The Race-Wrecker
and On the Buses.


9th October 1971 - No.40

Cover: Roger Moore and Tony Curtis by Arnaldo Putzu.
(n.b - first painted cover)

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Timeslip, Please Sir!,
Follyfoot, The Flaxton Boys, Mystery of the
Moondust! and On the Buses.


Thursday 13 February 2014

1971 No's 35 and 36...

1971 is really filling up now, here are two more to add, No's 35 and 36...

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4th September 1971 - No.35

Cover: Freddie 'Parrot-Face' Davies.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Timeslip, Please Sir!,
Follyfoot, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,
Sabotage! and On the Buses.


11th September 1971 - No.36

Cover: Dickie Henderson & Mini the Elephant.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Timeslip, Please Sir!,
Follyfoot, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,
Sabotage! and On the Buses.

Wednesday 12 February 2014

1971 No's 33 and 34...

1971 keeps rolling along with these two issues, No's 33 and 34...

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21st August 1971 - No.33

Cover: An Anglo-Saxon and his Ship.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Timeslip, Please Sir!,
Follyfoot, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,
On the Beat! and On the Buses.


28th August 1971 - No.24

Cover: George Best.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Timeslip, Please Sir!,
Follyfoot, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,
On the Beat! and On the Buses.


Monday 10 February 2014

1971 No's 31 and 32...

Here are another two from 1971, this time it's 31 and 32...

Checklist



7th August 1971 - No.31

Cover: Reg Varney.


Strips: Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Timeslip,
Please Sir!, Follyfoot, The Super-Save! and
On the Buses.


14th August 1971 - No.32

Cover: Roger Moore.

Strips: Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Timeslip,
Please Sir!, Follyfoot, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
On The Beat! and On the Buses.

Sunday 9 February 2014

1971 No's 26 and 27...

Here's today's dose of the good stuff, No's 26 and 27 from 1971...


3rd July 1971 - No.26

Cover: Garry Miller as Jamie.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, The Speed Menace,
Please Sir!, Timeslip, Voyage to the Bottom of
the Sea, Freewheelers and Bright's Boffins.


10th July 1971 - No27

Cover: Gillian Blake and Steve Hodson.

Strips: Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Timeslip,
Please Sir!,Voyage to the Bottom of
the Sea, Follyfoot, Causeway to Fear,
Freewheelers and Bright's Boffins.

(n.b. the 'Colour' Follyfoot strip for some reason has been
grey-scaled so appears in black and white, if Pete or anyone
else has a colour version I could replace this with, that would
be great, get in touch.
Also, this strip reads across the two pages, you can find the
full size stitched together version at the end of the file)

Saturday 8 February 2014

1971 No's 18 and 24...

And they keep comin'....here's 18 and 24 from 1971...

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 8th May 1971 - No.18

Cover: Freddie Garrity and friends from 'Little Big Time'.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Please Sir!, Freewheelers,
Timeslip, Redgauntlet and Bright's Boffins.


19th June 1971 - No.24

Cover: Alexander Dore from Bright's Boffins.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Call of the Unknown,
Please Sir!, Timeslip, Voyage to the Bottom of
the Sea, Freewheelers and Bright's Boffins.

Thursday 6 February 2014

1971 No's 14 and 16...

Here are two more 1971 issues for you, No's 14 and 16...

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10th April 1971 - No.14

Cover: Pete Brady.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Redgauntlet, Please
Sir!, Timeslip and Freewheelers.


24th April 1971 - No.16

Cover: Susan Stranks.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Redgauntlet, Please
Sir!, Timeslip, Freewheelers and Bright's Boffins.


Tuesday 4 February 2014

1971 No's 12 and 13...

I'm going to put the reboot on hiatus and keep uploading the stuff from Pete's collection to get 1971 completed.  They are pretty easy to convert to strip only, so I'll try and do as many as possible, but don't hold me to uploading every night!!...we'll see how it goes.

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27th March 1971 - No.12

Cover: Tom Fleming and Donald Douglas in Redgauntlet.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Redgauntlet, Please Sir!,
Timeslip and Freewheelers.


 

3rd April 1971 - No.13

Cover: Cheryl Burfield.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Redgauntlet, Please Sir!,
Timeslip and Freewheelers.

Monday 3 February 2014

1971 No's 10 and 11

Here are two from Pete's collection No's 10 and 11 from 1971...

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13th March 1971 - No.10

Cover: Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Freewheelers,
Please Sir! and Timeslip.





20th March 1971 - No.11

Cover: Roger Moore.

Strips: Crowther in Trouble, Freewheelers,
Please Sir! and Timeslip.

Sunday 2 February 2014

Pete's collection 1972...

Thanks to some incredibly hard work, the whole of 1972 is now available too,  You can join Yahoo Group's Scanarama club to get access to them, or wait a bit and see the strip only issues on the blog as soon as I can get through them.

Thanks to Pete and Andrew for these, at this rate they'll beat me to uploading a complete collection!!!

Feb update...1973 No.49 and 1976 No.14

Here is your update for February, two fresh new unseen before issues, No.49 from 1973 and No.14 from 1976,

Enjoy...



1st December 1973 - No.49

Cover: David Essex by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: On the Buses, Settle Down Now! with Ken Goodwin,
The Tomorrow People, The Adventures of David Cassidy,
Follyfoot, Les Dawson is Superflop and Doctor in Charge!


27th March 1976 - No.14

Cover: Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: The Benny Hill Page, The Tomorrow People,
Man about the House, Space: 1999, The Six Million
Dollar Man and Doctor on the Go.