UPDATED: 'The Perishers' jigsaws

I've looked before at comic-y jigsaws (see here for details of Captain Britain jigsaws) but a particular rabbit-hole I went down last night ended up with me looking at the newspaper strip, The Perishers, and some associated spin-off merchandise.

The Perishers was a long-running daily newspaper strip in the Daily Mirror - more details can be found here

Also check out this piece by John Freeman about Perishers jigsaws

Anyway, here's what could have been under your comic-y Christmas tree 40+ years ago if you loved The Perishers...

UPDATED: I've now discovered some more jigsaws so have added them just here...

UPDATED: undated annuals

As it's Christmas time it must be time to look at undated annuals, I  recently picked up my second undated Eagle annual as I know they're pretty uncommon - either as a mis-print or as a deliberate act. 

Previously I just has an undated Eagle annual for 1972 (below) - the front cover and spine are undated...

Here's what it should have looked like...

The Eagle annuals of 1971/2/3/5 all seem particularly set-up to have the date removed (if necessary) as it's a different colour to the rest of the cover...

...and now I have an undated 1971 annual too

The date has also been removed from the spine

...and now I have an undated 1975 annual too

So now I'm just after undated annuals for 1973 - if you can help me out with these just let me know...

I've read a theory that it was done so that the annuals could be shipped overseas where, because of the time taken to get them there by boat, they'd need a longer shelf-life to sell and if the annual was dated people wouldn't buy it as the year was already well under way.

Here are some other examples - anyone else got any other examples or theories about undated annuals? 

It's a Computer Warrior christmas!

From new Eagle dated 13th January 1990 comes this Christmas-y story - sharing with you here to show off the fact that I recently got this particular issue signed by the creative team...Happy Christmas!

and here are the writer (left) and artist (right) pictured together for the first time (at Swapmeet #5, Saturday 28th September 2019)

 

happy Christmas from new Eagle (part 2)

Happy Christmas from new Eagle - the covers 1986-90...after 1990 the Christmas cover disappeared as new Eagle went monthly. 

Happy Christmas to all!

art by Jose Ortiz

Art by Robin Smith

Art by Sandy James

Art by Keith Watson

happy Christmas from new Eagle (part 1)

Here are the Christmas covers from new Eagle from 1982-5, more Christmas coming for the next 2 days...

Art by Eric Bradbury (I think) 

Art by Jose Ortiz

Art by Robin Smith

The Beano & The Dandy jigsaws

Following on from recent jigsaws posts...

The Perishers jigsaws are here

2000AD jigsaws are here

Captain Britain jigsaws are here

Swift jigsaws are here

...and because, even now, Christmas is the season of the largest jigsaw puzzle in the house. Anyway, my eye was caught by Beano / Dandy jigsaws and so I went to see what I could find. There are probably more but here's what I've found so far - if you know of more do just let me know... 

Gibsons jigsaw reference - G800

Gibsons jigsaw reference - G7015

Another Gibsons produced jigsaw - reference number unknown

Gibsons jigsaw reference - G7071 (I think!)