LOOK IN - THE SEVENTIES

LOOK IN -THE SEVENTIES
PRION BOOKS £12.99

A handsome 140+ page hardcover collection of the best of Look In's 1970's material. Look In was never billed as a comic but as a magazine - the junior TV-Times in fact. But we kids thought of it as a comic because it contained cool comic strips of all our TV favourites. When the adventures of the Six Million Dollar Man ended on a Thursday night we could follow our hero in comic strip form to keep us placated until the next episode.

This collection is a mixture of comic strips and features from the decade that taste forgot. And the editors have picked a varied bunch of features to highlight the famous comic.

An interesting introduction starts the book and gives an history of the publication with some interesting comments from artists and writers who worked on the publication.

All together now - "lalalala look-in"



Reading this book took me back to the days of fizzy sherbet, scuffed knees, Marc Bolan and TV that genuinely thrilled in the pre-Star Wars days. It's like opening a time capsule and it's a nice touch to reproduce some of the adverts (see the Superman anti-smoking campaign AD below) which really give a feel for the time and place.


Look-In ran until 1994 and further volumes are planned in this series - by the time you read this Look-In The Eighties should be on sale. But this one is my era and I fondly remember shows such as The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman and Please Sir. In those days we only had three channels BBC1, 2 and ITV and without today's choice it meant that all our friends were watching the same shows. And these comic book adaptions became a talking point in the school playground.



Excellent nostalgia