Even the centrespread by L. Ashwell Wood that issue had a festive connection...
A festive feature/strip on Christmas trees. The latter drawn by 'Ross'. Anyone know who he was?
A Christmas Chicko mini strip by Normal Thelwell...
An advert in the issue...
A brilliant Harris Tweed page crammed with detail by the distinctive John Ryan...
...and on the back page, nothing could be more appropriate for a Christmas issue than the episode of The Great Adventurer reaching the point of the birth of Christ. Written by Chad Varah and drawn by Frank Hampson and Norman Williams...
There'll be one more Christmas flashback tomorrow, on Christmas Day! Drop by whilst eating a mince pie and find out what year our final destination is!
9 comments:
My Dad's favourite comic..
Nice to hear. My dad's favourite was Film Fun, which he read in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Eagle was my dad's favourite comic too. In fact I was around his age 27 years later when I discovered my own favourite comic starring the same iconic character.
Merry Christmas, Lew, and to all Blimey readers :)
Thank you, Colin! Merry Christmas to you too!
Really enjoying the Christmas covers!
Have a great Christmas Lew, and thanks for the great blog features throughout this year.
Stevie. H
Thanks, Stevie! A Merry Christmas to you too.
That little half-page strip about the Christmas tree is fun one, quite modern in its sense humour, just the kind of thing we'd see nowadays online gently mocking those who argue where it came from.
The "Mail Rail" system shown (as it was called later) was closed down in 2003 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway
There is a museum and you can also ride on the trains according to https://www.postalmuseum.org/discover/attractions/mail-rail-ride/
In fact it's not the only underground railway in London, there are also some "Tube" stations with a similar service. This "train" service might catch on and even be used for regular transport!
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