Look and Learn Magazine, No. 302, 28th October 1967, 1s 3d, every Monday,
Cover: Hiawatha and Minnehaha. True Adventure, Landing Blind, The Fall of Granada, The King of Golf, Ben Hogan continuation Three Musketeers. The Trigan Empire – Karen faces the Black Guards, followed by Jason January, Space Cadet, and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun. You can even fill in the crossword. No Index Sheets that would be like having the free gift, they were meant to be removed.
Look and Learn Magazine No. 303, 4th November 1967, 1s 3d, every Monday,
Cover: Robespierre and Eleanor Duplay.
The Bomber Broadcast – eye witness bombing
Slight superficial creasing, bottom right, and wear along spine, but what can we expect after so many years? I think they are a joy to read today, and look at the world before dumbing down!
Look and Learn Magazine: No. 304, 11th November 1967, 1s 3d, every Monday,
Cover 7, David Copperfield and Agnes Wickfield.
2 Creases top left. Pages 23 to 26 have a small cut. Continuation Three Musketeers, The story of sugar, Motor-cycle Mike – Hailwood, the Trigan Empire Peric’s dreadful warning,followed by Jason January, Space Cadet, and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun. You can even fill in the crossword. No Index Sheets…
Look and Learn Magazine: No. 305, 18th November 1967, 1s 3d, every Monday,
Cover, Henry V111 & Ann Boleyn.
Crease bottom
right corner, and a couple of other crease marks. Judith Chalmers at the BBC
find party leaders wives in 1964. Even assisting airport passengers required 4
‘O’Levels incl Maths & English, preference to those with 1 A Level and for
that £8 7s 6d. Continuation Three Musketeers, the
Trigan Empire –
Look and Learn Magazine: No. 306, 25th November 1967, 1s 3d, every Monday,
Cover Orpheus and Eurydice.
What I’d
call a roll on the spine, and magazine not stapled straightly. The Three
Musketeers ends along with its bright artwork! Howard Jones, The Spur And The
Lily begins. A Matt Busby feature, The fall of the
6) Look and Learn Magazine: No. 319, 24th February
1968.
Cover, ‘Laddie’ To The Rescue. Montezuma’s Daughter, by Haggard begins
in B & W strip. Tarka the Otter begins in text. The Trigan Empire –
Thulla, the Mad scientist, Wildcat Wayne, Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto –
Lone Gun.You can even fill in the crossword.
7) Look and Learn Magazine: No. 320, 2nd March
1968.
Cover, Wonderful Wendy. Making glass, but you want The Trigan
Empire – Departure for Bolus, Wildcat Wayne, Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto
– Lone Gun.Again crossword started, well 5 answers.
8) Look and Learn Magazine: No. 321, 9th March
1968
Cover, Corrie, the prize-fighter.
Crash landing on Bolus! The Trigan Empire – The journey of
fear, Wildcat Wayne, Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun.You can even
fill in the crossword.
9) Look and Learn Magazine: No. 322, 16th March
1968.
Cover: The start of famous partnership, Wings around the World.
The Trigan Empire – The monster of the green mist, Wildcat Wayne,
Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun.You can even fill in the crossword.
10) Look and Learn Magazine: No. 323, 23rd March
1968
Cover, The Devon Man.
The Trigan Empire – Into the maw of the monster, Wildcat
Wayne, Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun.You can even fill in the
crossword.
11) Look and Learn Magazine: No. 325, 4th April
1968
Cover, Arthur and Excalibur.
The Trigan Empire – The Treasure of
Bolus, Wildcat Wayne, Rob Riley and Dan
Dakoto – Lone Gun.You can even fill in the crossword. No Index Sheets that
would be like having the free gift, they were meant to be removed. Slight tear
bottom left spine.
12) Look and Learn Magazine: No. 326,
13th April 1968.
Cover, Sharpshooter Annie.
Making Easter Eggs. A new Rob Riley story starts, odd
this comprehensive looks more like a grammar school. The Trigan Empire – A
threat to all life on Elekton, Wildcat Wayne, and Dan Dakoto – Lone
Gun.In this issue the card index pages are still in place.
13) Look and Learn Magazine: No. 327,
20th April 1968.
Cover, Over the North Pole. Making cricket
bats, The Trigan Empire – The Green beam of Destruction, Wildcat
Wayne, Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun.You can even fill in the crossword.
No Index Sheets that would be like having the free gift, they were meant to be
removed.
14) Look and Learn Magazine: No 328, 27th April
1968
Cover, Jason and the Golden Fleece.
The Negro Pharaohs, The Charlton
Brothers. The Trigan Empire – The ordeal of the pit, Wildcat Wayne,
Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun. No Index Sheets that would be like having
the free gift, they were meant to be removed.
15) Look and Learn Magazine: No 329,
4th May 1968.
Cover, Jump for Joy.
The new decimal coinage shown! Postman’s Progress –
moving the mail? The Trigan Empire – Panic on Elekton, Wildcat Wayne, Rob Riley
and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun. You can even fill in the crossword. No Index Sheets
that would be like having the free gift, they were meant to be removed.
16) Look and Learn Magazine: No 330, 11th May
1968
Cover, In the Depths.
Cricket – Compton & Edrich, the story of
tin, The Trigan Empire – The attempt to destroy the
disintegrator, Wildcat Wayne, Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun.You
can even fill in the crossword. No Index Sheets that would be like having the
free gift, they were meant to be removed.
17) Look and Learn Magazine: No 344, 17th August
1968.
Cover, Golden Girl – Mary Rand.
New story starts: Leon Garfield’s Smith, Go-anywhere gas, the story of
Africa concludes with West Africa awakes. The Trigan Empire –
Janno, Karen and Roffa set off on an amazing new adventure, Wildcat Wayne,
Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun.
You can even fill in the crossword.
No Index Sheets that would be like having the free gift, they were
meant to be removed.
Sharp corner crease page 5.
18) Look and Learn
Magazine: No 345, 24th August 1968.
Cover, At Africa’s Heart.
For some reason they changed the presentation order from this
issue. Rather than been near the rear, Trigan is on its new location on page
18. The Trigan Empire – The strange story of Orgo the gelfherd, Wildcat
Wayne, Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun.
Then take the west for real with Colonel ‘Kit’ Carson – with
1860’s Navahos.
Hardly political correct – feature on unusual pets – chipmunks!
You can even fill in the crossword on page 31.
No Index Sheets that would be like having the free gift, they were
meant to be removed.
The editions are slightly slimmer now only 36 pages.
19) Look and Learn
Magazine: No 346, 31st August 1968.
Cover, Who’s Who at the Zoo…No. 1 Polar Baby.
Montezuma’s Daughter ends, Man overboard. The Trigan Empire –
Monster at Large, Wildcat Wayne, Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun.
Hardly political correct – feature on unusual pets – doves!
You can even fill in the crossword.
No Index Sheets that would be like having the free gift, they were
meant to be removed.
20) Look and Learn
Magazine: No 347, 7th September 1968.
Cover, Who’s Who at the Zoo…No. 2 Virginia.
The Sign of the Four starts. The Trigan Empire – Jet-plane
versus giant, Wildcat Wayne, Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun.
Hardly political correct – feature on unusual pets – axolotls!
The original folding of this copy was not square, most noticeably on
rear page that overlaps.
You can even fill in the crossword.
No Index Sheets that would be like having the free gift, they were
meant to be removed.
21) Look and Learn
Magazine: No 348, 14th September 1968.
Cover, Who’s Who at the Zoo…No. 3 Ben and Friend.
The Trigan Empire – Mercy for the monster, Wildcat Wayne,
Rob Riley and Dan Dakoto – Lone Gun.
Hardly political correct – feature on unusual pets – bushbabies!
Then take the west for real with square dancing, form your sets with a
hi-diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle….Your arm round her waist if she ain’t
too wide.
You can even fill in the crossword…too late to win the cameras!
No Index Sheets that would be like having the free gift, they were meant
to be removed.
22) Look and Learn
Magazine:No 349, 21st September 1968.
Cover, Who’s Who at the Zoo…No. 4 Tea for Four. Jesse Owens with Captain
Bligh on the back page.
‘Going Decimal’ you might take it for granted, to some of us there are
still 240 pence to a pound.
Hardly politically correct – feature on unusual pets – tree frogs! I
have enough frogs in the pond here!
You can even fill in the crossword…too late to win the footballs and
netballs!
No Index Sheets that would be like having the free gift, they were meant
to be removed.
23) Look and Learn Magazine: No 366, 18th January
1969,
Cover, They Lived Their Books…No. 9 George Borrow. Who? Just 13 in ink
on top right hand side.
The master musician – Handel, The renegade Indian, The waterways
engineer, some songsters, but not the Beatles Birds, how many of them birds
have you seen? Blackbirds… & the Trigan Empire: “Meeting with the mighty,
Jegiz”.
You can even fill in the crossword…you could have won one of 25
Paintings-by-numbers.
No Index Sheets that would be like having the free gift, they were meant
to be removed.
24) Look and Learn Magazine: No 367, 25th January
1969, Cover, They Lived Their Books…No. 10 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Abbreviated
address on top right hand side. Card index included. Pencils marks around
crossword.
The story of Scotland – With Wallace for the Cause, Len
Hutton…
Trigan Empire: “Janno saves a life”.
25) Look and Learn
Magazine: No 368, 1st February 1969, Cover, They Lived
Their Books…No. 11 Harriet Beecher Stowe. Just 13 in ink on top right hand
side. Card index included.
You can even fill in the crossword…you could have won a 15/- book token.
The story of Scotland – Then came Bruce, Surveying the Seven
Seas.
Trigan Empire: “The Zuggs prove more than a match for the Hericans”.
26) Look and Learn Magazine: No
369, 8th February 1969.
Cover, They Lived Their Books…No. 12 Henry
Fielding. Abbreviated address on top right hand side and almost torn
off corner. Card index included.
You can even fill in the crossword…you could have won a Table Tennis
set.
Rocky Marciano, the first signs of spring, where are my local
cows, Cab sir, The story of Scotland – on
to Bannockburn.
Trigan Empire: “Zugg’s fearful triumph”.
27) Look and Learn Magazine: No 370, 15th February
1969, Cover, Roll of Honour…No. 1 The Seamen’s Seaman. Just 13 in ink on top
right hand side.
The man under the sea, a book feature on Frank Richards – Billy Bunter.
Trigan Empire: “Nanno risks his life for his comrades.”.. And Gorbal was
never drunk again!
You can even fill in the crossword…you could have won one of 25
Paintings-by-numbers.
No Index
Sheets that would be like having the free gift, they were meant to be removed.
Look and Learn was a weekly educational magazine for children, from Leonard Matthews, the editorial director of Fleetway Publications and ran from 1962 until 1982.
It contained educational text articles that covered a wide variety of topics from volcanoes to the Loch Ness Monster; adaptations of famous works of literature into comic-strip form, such as Lorna Doone; and serialized works of fiction such as The First Men in the Moon but I don’t want to give you that.
The illustrators who worked on the magazine included Fortunino Matania, John Millar Watt, Peter Jackson, John Worsley, Patrick Nicolle, Ron Embleton, Gerry Embleton, C. L. Doughty, Wilf Hardy, Dan Escott, Angus McBride, Oliver Frey, James E. McConnell, Kenneth Lilly, Graham Coton, Ralph Bruce, R. B. Davis, Severino Baraldi and Clive Uptton.
The first issue of Look and Learn was dated 20 January 1962, and contained a wide spectrum of features ranging from articles on history, science, geography and geology, art, nature, literature and travel.
The first issue of the magazine sold about 700,000 copies and settled down to a regular sale of over 300,000 copies a week.
Let’s be honest, I was not an early reader, but I was of another publication, and that was from the first major change to the contents of the magazine came in 1966 when it incorporated Ranger with issue 232 (25 June 1966). Yes, this brought me on board, and why, because….
This amalgamation brought with it a number of comic strips including ‘The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire’, written by Mike Butterworth and drawn by Don Lawrence.
The Trigan Empire was a science fiction work which first appeared in Ranger magazine in September 1965. The series ran in Look and Learn until the title ceased publication. It told the story of an alien culture that contained an educational blend of science and Earth-like ancient civilizations. This is a run of this strip! If you’ve not seen it before, you’ve never seen the best of comic artwork, & its rich colour. Has anyone done better? It is this though I remember the magazine for, and why I read it!
The French comic strip Asterix also featured in earlier editions. The adventure Asterix and Cleopatra appears under the title In the Days of Good Queen Cleo, with the Gauls turned into Ancient Britons, with Asterix and Obelix renamed "Beric" and "Doric".
Look and Learn folded with issue 1049, dated 17 April 1982.
If you have read this far you might be interested, then if you were only interested in the odd one, cheaper to buy and sell on...as you save on postage.