We had something of a mad dash to complete the issue of Hotel Business on time, thanks to the late arrival of a clutch of advertorial mat...

Commando issues on sale 16 June 2016. Commando No 4923 – Scrapper’s War World War I raged in the trenches of Europe another, more unusu...

Within two weeks, Purnell Books had moved lock, stock and drawing board to Paulton in Somerset, and for the following three months or so –...

Derek Pierson at the Cheshire Cheese in 2006 Derek Pierson, at various times a member of the art departments at Hulton Press, Odhams and...

1979 Towards the end of the 1970s, my old chum Theodore “Will” Wilson – formerly employed as a sales rep by Syndication International, t...

The latest issue of Space Ace —or, more properly, Ron Turner's Space Ace —has arrived. Dated April but released in June, it is always ...

I need to confess that in the 1950s, I had been weaned on MAD magazine and, in the 1960s, we had Willie Rushton’s Private Eye , which was ...

On Thursday morning I attended the dentists for the second of my current 7-part dental plan, which involves some cleaning, some filling an...

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I was telling you about how I'd had two visitors on my first day in Poland Street working for Purnell Books. The first . . . well, you...