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I opened my copy in eager anticipation; I pretty much had in my mind a picture of what I expected to see after reading Shaqui’s review. I thought that I would have already seen a lot of the content recently, with my collection rebuilding nicely, and an archive site to read more stuff off, but I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of stuff I really had forgotten about. Apart from four pages at the beginning, which are a mix of introductory notes by Graham Kibble-White, and some of Arnaldo’s artwork, (including my favourite Space: 1999 cover, seen for the first time without the text on it., (It looks amazing, albeit smaller than I’d like, otherwise I’d have been tempted to tear it out and frame it), the book is just a spread of reprinted pages. The book looks exactly like a Look-in annual at first glance, and as you thumb the pages you feel like it is one, the contents page is laid out in a similar fashion, and the scans are really top notch, and an amazing job has been done in reproducing them. There are oddities about, like the ad for the aforementioned ‘Look-in’ sweets (yes, really! – see left), a feature about Mick ‘Magpie’ Robertson making a record, and another feature about ‘Our Kid’, (if you remember them, cringe right now), and other things you’d forgotten about, (or just conveniently wiped from your memory). Other strange things include the choice of reprint posters, such as Racey who had a couple of hits, when they could have chosen Bay City Rollers, surely the most popular group of the 70’s, and notably missed out, apart from a sparse mention in other features about ‘Saturday Scene’ and the like. The omission of more popular strips like ‘Space: 1999’ and ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ has also been mentioned, and deserves to be underlined, but when you’re talking about nine years worth, and getting it into as small a space as this, your fighting a losing battle all the way, there’s gonna be something you wish they’d have put in, but at the same time, if you are a child of the 70’s there’s gonna be something in here for you. This isn’t really a reading book in the true sense, more something you’d keep nearby, and flick through, when you’re in need of a nostalgia fix, and every page will make you smile. I’d really like to see a proper biographical book, about ‘Look-in’, and when I first heard this book was a possibility, I was hoping that it would be that sort of book. It isn’t, but if you visit and love this site, or the archive site you will love this book, buy it - it will not disappoint, I can promise you that.
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