ITEM: Fireball XL5 Annual 1964 (the first issued)

GRADE: Upper grade

DESCRIPTION:

Copyright year 1963 on inside but regarded as the 1964 annual. Eric Eden cover and endpapers. 8/6d price tag - this is intact. No name inscribed in the Belongs To box. The colouring in page on page 33 is not as detrimental as you may find with many examples. Considered scarce; cover shows characters in a row along the bottom of cover.

Fireball XL5 would appear in TV Century 21 from issue #1 in January 1965. 

Fireball comic strips: Unknown Planet (8 pages in colour); Commander Zero's Day (8 pages red monochrome); Prehistoric Adventure (6 pages black and white - got the dates slightly wrong - dinosaurs a million years ago!); Riot on Conva (4 pages in colour); The Pets of Proton (9 pages red monochrome); The Ice People (9 pages black and white); Derelict Planet (4 pages in colour). Plus some illustrated text stories.

Overall a very nice copy of a genuine scarce annual.

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