LET'S HAVE A GIGGLE...

Okay, I admit it, I'm just showing off!  Above are five bound

file volumes, four of which used to belong to ODHAMS, and the

fifth one to FLEETWAY.  They were given to me by an IPC editor

who I assume just wanted the space in his office, and knowing what
a fan I was of the POWER COMICS, he offered them to me.  I

greedily accepted and they've now been in my possession for

around 25 years or so. 

Curiously, Odhams didn't include all 52 issues for the year in

their books, only 50 issues from January to December.  Had they

bound all 52 issues, the WHAM! volume would've had the final two

comics (#s 186 & 187), but the book ends with #185.  The POW!

volume has #s 1-50, the SMASH! pair contain the first 100 issues,
and GIGGLE contains the complete set.  (They're not numbered
past the first two and I can't be bothered counting them.  If only
my DENIS GIFFORD comics catalogue were handy.)

I remember buying a copy of Giggle back in the very early

1970s ('71 perhaps) from a charity shop in my neighbourhood

shopping centre and not being overly impressed by it, although the

HERLOCK SHOLMES strip lodged in my memory.  I don't recall

ever having seen the comic anywhere before that.  One day, I'll
pore through the bound volume and see if I can identify which
one it was, but I'd be surprised if I remember.

Anyway, not a bad little set of volumes
to have on one's bookshelf, eh?