Question about British Annuals...

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

The annuals are usually associated with a weekly; anthology comics printed on newsprint that come out every 7 days and feature several 10 page chapters from different series. A lot of 'em were reprints of American books. The annuals were normally a mix of reprints (sort of a "best of") and some new stuff.

We got tons of 'em here when I was a kid. None of the Marvel, Gold Key, or other American character ones; but tons of others. Especially the Fleetways. But we got some of the weeklies as well.

Don C.

[palitoy]

Thanks to our UK ties, British Annuals got sometimes very strong distribution here. I've run across 60s Who stuff, James Bond, Six Million Dollar Man, Action Man.

In 1983 or so Shoppers Drug Marts had huge displays of them, including Judge Dredd and other characters. A lot of UK shops (we had a bunch here growing up) would bring them in too, it's where I got my Who stuff in the 80s.