3 – 2 – 1… SUPERCAR ANNUALS…

Yes, 3 – 2 – 1, because I’m exhibiting them in reverse expose as, if I lead with the first one, having already shown it on the weblog a whereas relieve, you Crivvies may maybe per chance maybe skip tuning in, pondering it is miles a repost.  I purchased the first Annual about a years ago and obtained the next two greatest as of late, so now may maybe per chance maybe be the time to show all three collectively on the same time.

Above is the third Annual for 1964 (on sale towards the tip of ’63), below is the second for ’63 (on sale in ’62), and below that’s the one for ’62 (yes, you guessed it – on sale in ’61).  As a long way as I recall, I never knew about these Annuals on the time, nor attain I be conscious any of my company ever having any of them, so it is vivid to reach 60-unique years into the past and transplant them into my repeat (and future).

Some people regard the first of the trio as more of a storybook than an Annual, however it indubitably does relish affirm strips, which outnumber the text reviews by three to two.  The affirm reviews (or silly strips while you happen to prefer) bear tiny text items underneath the panels, however additionally they relish speech balloons, making the book, individually, a acceptable Annual.  It has greatest forty eight pages at the side of the covers, so I suspect it may maybe maybe most likely per chance maybe’ve been a speed job as the show had greatest debuted on TV on the starting of the year, however the next two books made up for that, being reasonably lavish productions (by the standards of the time).

Collins became once accountable for all three books, and the closing two are in the same model as the four Fireball XL5 books by the same publisher.  I would utter it is gorgeous apparent that the rocket ship, Gargantuan-R, is carefully in accordance with Fireball, and it makes me shock if it may maybe maybe most likely per chance maybe’ve been one of several imaginable early designs for XL5 (or Century 21 because it became once on the origin going to be known as) sooner than being rejected.  The Annual, as I acknowledged, went on sale around August or September ’62, and Fireball did not seem on TV till October of the same year.  As Sylvia Anderson became once one of the crucial book’s two writers, she’d were conscious of such things.

Brian Lewis became once accountable for the hide and interior art in the first Annual, and Eric Eden illustrated the endpapers in the second.  I’m not distinct whether or not he also did its hide (any Crivs know?), however he undoubtedly did the hide for the third one because it is obtained his name on it.  If any of you had (or bear) any (or all) of these books, be at liberty to leave a comment about them.  Primarily, even while you happen to did not (or assign not) bear them, you may maybe maybe per chance maybe composed leave a comment anyway.