Just a little warning.
I ordered this book from Amazon as I did not recognise the cover.
What I got was THIS book the cover of which I DID recognise.
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I would not recommend it since there is nothing in it that you would not find in an old Denis Gifford or Alan Clark book. Forget the bullshit claim that the catalogue every comic produced would require a book three times the size of this 296 pager. Denis Gifford accomplished it and even updated later volumes.
The fact that the Boy's Papers were skipped is acceptable as although they had comic strips in them if you want to on weekly comics -although the fact that they contained strips needed to be mentioned. Then we come to the biggest exclusion of all. Comics of the 1930s-1950s because this book concentrates on the 1960s-1980s. No mention of Gerald Swan, no mention of Marvelman or any of the significant comics of the three decades he ignores.
Basically, as a comic historian and fan I found the book not that good -but luckily I only paid £3.00 for it. The author does enjoy hyperbole though as in the claim "which is, literally, read by millions" re his work
If you just want a list of some 60s but mainly 1970s-1980s titles then this is for you...if you can buy it cheap.
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