Look-In 1971/72 spotlighted

[Lew Stringer]

When I was a kid I thought the first 18 months of Look-In were excellent. A true tv comic. See my opinions and enjoy a bunch of scans over on my latest blog entry:

http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2008/08 ... years.html

Lew

[Kremmen]

Thanks for putting up that article on Look-in. I quite agree that in its first two years it really was what it said on the box: the Junior TV Times. But that was in its "infancy", so to speak. In late 72 it was revamped and entered what you might call its "teen years" becoming more like Popswap or Music Star (remember them?) and while it was still technically the Junior TV Times, it lost something with the revamp.

[Lew Stringer]

In late 72 it was revamped and entered what you might call its "teen years" becoming more like Popswap or Music Star (remember them?) and while it was still technically the Junior TV Times, it lost something with the revamp.

Look-in was a terrific comic when it was launched IMHO.

Unfortunately the pop pull-outs that debuted 18 months into its run were not a very subtle way of showing the mag was aimed at girls as well as boys. Looking back now I could have easily ignored those centrespread posters of Donny Osmond, David Essex or David Cassidy and enjoyed the comic strips, but when you're a 13 year old boy it's embarrassing to be buying something that looks like Jackie.

Still, I was obviously in the minority as Look-in was a huge success at the time, outselling most other comics. At least the occasional Debbie Harry feature still made it palatable to buy sometimes. As time went on though I found the tone of the scripts were very wet, compared to other contemporary comics such as Battle, Warlord, Action, and 2000AD, so even as a comic Look-in had lost its appeal for me.

Lew

[Kremmen]

While I feel that Look-in lost something when it revamped in 1972, I still continued reading it (and occasionally buying it! ) for most of the seventies. One attraction was the Tomorrow People strip as I was unable to see much of the original series when it first went out - Blue Peter was on the other side, curses! My little brother simply had to see Blue Peter, never mind it was on twice a week and TP only once! There were other shows that I watched on TV and read as comic strips such as Space 1999 and the bionics, but at the time the TP ruled!

Those were the days...

[Peter Gray]

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Arthur R
1984 Look-in..maybe this is what we will see in the 80's Look-in annual..


Space 1999

[Shaqui]

Comic fans in the London area will hopefully get a chance to see this piece in a forthcoming event in the next couple of months... details to follow.