Project SWORD is 50 years old!
It began its life as a comic strip in SOLO comics in 1967.
Half a century!
Most of the toys were introduced to us kids in issue 19 of SOLO.
Those toys and SOLO comics are still around today for us to enjoy again, which is quite amazing really.
To celebrate here'e the first Project SWORD strip narrated by yours truly!
What were you doing 50 years ago?
I suppose 50 years ago I'd be starting primary school (building is still there, I pass it most days). Didn't realise then that I'd be in schools until I was 50-something!
ReplyDeleteBlimey Kev, you started teaching early! ha ha Must be an odd feeling to pass your first school everyday. I moved away from my home town when I was 20 so I've only seen my first school once since then. I stood outside the locked gate peering at the boys' yard as it was and blubbed like a baby! Glad it was 8am on a Saturday and no-one was around!
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Id have been deep in the bosom of my family home, back in Dingle, waiting for the letter to arrive to tell me I could start primary school and to shortly after take Task Force one in on a toy day, to lose one of its wheels down a knothole in the floorboards!
ReplyDelete50 Years ago I was getting to grips with Primary School and wondering about this 'new' series called Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was really going to be like! - In Wales it would not be until the middle of 1968, before I got to see the good Captain.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I did get Zero X for Christmas.
I remember seeing the first issues of Solo in the newsagents, but the Disney stuff put me off, so I never read the later Solo SWORD strip.
ReplyDeleteMy earliest memories of SWORD was buying the Dyna-Soar at one of the local 'Delahunty' cycle shops, and the Scout Force ships from three different newsagents around Southport. Oh, and I still walk past the shop in town where I bought my SWORD annual.
In 1967, I was a toddler able to stand up long enough to switch on our b/w Telefunken set, where two of my favourite tv shows, Batman and Get Smart, played out. My earliest tv memories. I'd probably be watching with my baby bro who'd be tossing well-chewed toys at me.
ReplyDelete50 years ago?Still in the womb,with 3 months to go :p
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