This was the first storyline given an actual title in the comic, mentioned in issue 237 at the foot of the page onlyLook and Learn cover page from 25 March 1972ranger combined with look & learn at 232, importing its comic strips +. The Land of No Return Look and Learn 238 - 6 th August 1966 - 242 3 rd September 1966. The story that crossed over onto Look and Learn when the two titles merged at Look and Learn 232.
However, before the new title reached the newsstands, John Sanders replaced Stone as editor.The first issue of Look and Learn was dated 20 January 1962, and contained a wide spectrum of features ranging from articles on history (Rome, the Houses of Parliament, the story of King Charles I, "The Dover Road", "From Then Till Now"), science ("Eyes on Outer Space"), geography and geology ( The Grand Canyon, "The Quest for Oil"), art ( Vincent van Gogh), nature ("The story of a seed", "Your Very Own Basset Hound"), literature ( The Arabian Nights and its editor Sir Richard Burton) and travel ("The Children of Tokio"). David Stone, a former sub-editor with Everybody's Weekly, was appointed editor and, with the dummy approved, the magazine began publication. A British edition of Conoscere was brought out in 1961 under the title Knowledge and Matthews reassessed his original proposal and approached the Board again, this time receiving the go-ahead to produce a dummy of the proposed magazine.The dummy was put together by the firm's Experimental Art Department headed by David Roberts and Trevor Newton. An early attempt by Matthews to launch a new educational title along the lines of Italian educational magazines Conoscere and La Vita Meravigliosa had been turned down by the Board of Directors. Davis and Clive Uptton.Among other things, it featured the Pen-Friends pages, a popular section where readers could make new friends overseas.Look and Learn was the brainchild of Leonard Matthews, the editorial director of juvenile publications at Fleetway Publications which was already publishing the long-running Children's Newspaper. McConnell, Kenneth Lilly, R.
Historian Steve Holland has said, "The premise of Look and Learn was to delight and inspire the imaginations of its young readers. The success of the magazine has been put down to the high quality of the magazine's content. Jerome and "The Children's Crusade" by Henry Treece and a feature on the founding of the World Wildlife Fund.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.
Look And Learn Comic Trigan Series Written Mainly
Another strip was Rob Riley, also originally from Ranger. It told the story of an alien culture that contained an educational blend of science and Earth-like ancient civilizations. It transferred to Look and Learn in issue 232, June 1966 when the two titles merged, and ran there until the title ceased publication. Price increases in the early 1980s added a further 10 pence to the weekly cost of the magazine and the editor had to admit that "we simply do not sell enough to meet the very heavy cost of producing a magazine of the quality of Look and Learn and we are therefore unable to continue publication." Look and Learn folded with issue 1049, dated 17 April 1982.It did include a comic strip section, the most important strip was The Trigan Empire, a science fiction series written mainly by Mike Butterworth and most notably drawn by Don Lawrence, which first appeared in Ranger in September 1965. Sales had, however, been declining throughout the 1970s, a decade which had seen the price of the paper rise from 7½ pence to 30 pence due to sharply increasing production costs. 724 (29 November 1975).It was under Parker's editorship that the paper underwent a facelift with issue 844 (18 March 1978), absorbed World of Knowledge in early 1981, and celebrated its 1,000th issue later that same year ().
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