I've been sorting out spare comics to sell on Ebay/ Amazon and come across one of my favourites, FANTASTIC. Here's a few images from my small collection. It was a weekly UK [only?] comic I got back in the Sixties. Most of theses are dated 1968 [was it out in June 1967 along with SOLO?]. FANTASTIC was just that, stuffed with great super-hero strips [including Prince Namor and the original X-Men, with a lycra-cladded Beast], ads for stamps/wayfinder shoes and Kinky/Choc Top Woppa/Sky Ray lollies and wonderful free gifts. I can remember the 'target gun' [with elastic band] and the Apollo capsule as if it were yesterday! And Gerry Anderson got a look-in too - check out the TB6 movie/ Cap. Scarlet ad. Anyone else like FANTASTIC or similar comic?
I don't remember it from the period at all. Did you ever make the Apollo capsule?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I did. I'm surer about the elastic band pistol though. And I loved Choc Top Woppa's and most lollies in fact. Used to go to Cleveley's (and Heysham Head now and then) in the North West with my family and eat ice lollies on the beach: Mivvi, Strawberry Split (were they the same?), FAB, Zoom, a pure orange juice lolly (?), a banana ice cream lolly (?), Sky Ray and the delicious Kinky! There might have been a butterscotch lolly too! Yummeeeee.
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