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I'd love really cheap (like 10p/issue cheap) copies of all those tens of thousands of comics I missed. I'm not sure whether tolworthy is presenting an accurate statement here of what he would consider to be a purchasing opportunity that he couldn't possibly turn down, or whether he is guilty of exa...

Good stories inside too, well if the one i have read is anything to go on. Some bandits in the wild west kidnap a sherrif's son, hide on top of a mountain and cut off a town's water supply until the ransom is paid. I don't know the annual story you refer to felneymike, but the inspiration for it al...

Post subject: Re: old annuals... garage/jumble sales Reply with quote Hmm, if we're on to locations of good second hand bookshops (for the needs of "our kind" anyway!)... LINCOLN I don't know how far back your knowledge of Lincoln goes felneymike, but I have very fond memories of Lincoln Books. The...

Post subject: Re: The Jag Index Reply with quote Black Patch the Wonder Horse (22/2/69) - (29/3/69) A girl's paper plot given a spin so that it would be palatable for boys. Hi Kashgar - As you know, I approve wholeheartedly of indexes and consequently I've been following your entries for the JAG in...

I have been aware of the existence of this great race since Russian Hero won it in 1949, and I can assure Kashgar that at no time since then would the race have been won by a cart-horse, a jolly gee-gee, a Don Key, a haybag of a nag or even Arthur Askey. I've just opened my study window and in the q...

A love of ballet apart, the two girls are as different as chalk from cheese, Ray. Melody-Lee Roberts was abandoned as a baby and spent her childhood moving from one foster home to another. One day Mary Ogden, a Salvation Army officer, who had originally found and named the baby, sees her begging in ...

She was the main character in the BUNTY serial 'Melody Lee - a dancer she'll be!'. The story started in issue 1030 (Oct. 8 1977) and ended in 1067 (Jun. 24 1978). It ran for more than eight months, a highly unusual event in any Thomson girls' paper.