Question about British Annuals...

[Blue Meanie]

Been recently checking out some British Annuals on Ebay and I am absolutely floored by the covers on some of them. My question is more along the lines of this:

1) Are all the annuals in hardcover format? It looks like it from the auctions I've seen on ebay.

2) Are the interior pages in black and white or full color (Colour)? It looks like it may be mixed from what I can tell.

It looks like they made annuals for almost anything you could think of. Thanks for any help on these.

[palitoy]

As somebody who has been collecting these since I was a kid, welcome.

<<1) Are all the annuals in hardcover format? It looks like it from the auctions I've seen on ebay.>>

I've never seen a soft cover annual

<<2) Are the interior pages in black and white or full color (Colour)? It looks like it may be mixed from what I can tell.>>

Depends on the Annual, sometimes it's a mix, other times it's two or three color print but for the most part it's four colour. A LOT of cool treasures to be found in thos books.

On the weekend, I found a "Wrath of Khan" annuals that consisted solely of Gold Key comics reprints.

[clemso]

Yes all annuals are Hard back, the interiors, depending on what they it is are often a mixture of two tone, b&W and the odd full color page.

Clem

[Mikey]

I never owned a British annual, but I have seen them for sale before.

My question is, what exactly are they ?

I'm assuming "annual" means yearly.

Are they an indepth look at the show from the following year ?
Meaning a 1976 annual is about the past 1975 season ?

Also, who prints them ?
The shows themselves ? or are they a fan produced thing ?

[clemso]

I never owned a British annual, but I have seen them for sale before.

My question is, what exactly are they ?

I'm assuming "annual" means yearly.

Are they an indepth look at the show from the following year ?
Meaning a 1976 annual is about the past 1975 season ?

Also, who prints them ?
The shows themselves ? or are they a fan produced thing ?

I imagine like most things, the Annuals are licensed out. I think that you would like the Dr Who ones Mike, the covers are often painted art and stunning. Yes, traditionally they would ( and still do) come out in time for Christmas. I have fond memories of these. The TV related annuals tend to be written stories with the odd illustration here and there. I don't think they follow any kind of annual review. They are just called annuals because they come out once a year.

[Mikey]

Yep, I've been eyeing up Jon Pertwee ones for some time now but never pulled the trigger on one yet.

His first one seems to go for huge bucks.

[palitoy]

Two that I absolutely treasure from childhood are Countdown (with UFO and Pertwee Who strips) and Logan's Run.

I used to have a bunch of Beano/Bash Street Kids ones too but they are lost to time.

[Blue Meanie]

Thanks for the info guys. My other question about the annuals is this...I notice in the listings that they keep saying that the annuals aren't "clipped". What does that mean?

BTW, check out the cover art:

[Mikey]

I'm thinking maybe they have coupons in them and a lot of times people cut them out ?

Just guessing

[Surfsup]

I think clipped means that it has the price cut out on the first inner page. I used to get a few annuals a year for birthdays and Christmas...those were the days! Some of the Marvel and DC ones had great covers, mainly illustrated by Marvel UK artists.