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Tuesday, 4 June 2013

HOLIDAY SPECIALS

Woodsy's post about  ice cream and reminiscences about summer got me thinking about comic summer specials which I always loved as a kid, usually picking them up while on holiday.


As we know TV Century 21 had several holiday specials and they were always packed with features and  complete stories.


Although there's better ones packed with many more Century 21 features my favourite special, simply for nostalgic reasons is the Stingray Special which appeared in 1965.



A high point for me is a Stingray strip drawn by Ron Turner with two pages in full colour.

I did pick up other specials. I loved Valiant comic which featured one of my favourite comic book characters, The Steel Claw.



One aspect of Summer Specials was that some of the characters were on holiday just like me.


While I was happiest with the adventure Holiday Specials, I did occasionally get the odd cartoon
 publication.


Although Buster comic started out as an Adventure comic with one or two cartoon character thrown in, in later years it became totally cartoony.  The above picture shows Freddie 'Parrot Face' Davies, a popular real life comic in his day enjoying a day at the beach!



For Gerry Anderson fans like ourselves Countdown comic as well as it's own special  gave us a  Thunderbird Holiday Extra in 1971.



The following year the TV Action featured a interesting cutaway of the Moonbase in UFO.

And let's not forget the female fans of Gerry Anderson's shows.

The summer - Sun, Sand and Holiday Specials!









  
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2 comments:

  1. WOODSTER6/05/2013 11:05 am

    Summer specials were such an exciting part of the summer. I used to buy mine whilst on holiday. usually from the holiday park shop at the Warren in Abersoch! I can see them now, Whizzer and Chips, Shiver n Shake, Shoot - big specials stacked on the revolving rack! Summer bliss.

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  2. Ed and Bettina Berg6/06/2013 1:52 am

    While you guys were enjoying everything Gerry Anderson, my face was buried in 'Model Railroader', 'Railroad Model Craftsman', 'Model Railroading' and the like. I see now I have nearly 50 years of catch-up to do - geez, I'm pooped just thinkin' about it :-)

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