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| Frank Bellamy artwork for Look and Learn #437 (30 May 1970) |
Look and Learn was an educational weekly comic/magazine, that was thought to be bought by grandparents and parents for children, rather than children themselves buying it! It contained fascinating articles, lots of illustrations and also comic strips. From issues 437 - 462 (30 May 1970 - 21 November 1970), Frank Bellamy illustrated a series of text articles on "The Story of World War One"
The original art for the first episode has appeared on eBay and looks to be well preserved - not faded. It's curling but that can easily be rectified. It's a lovely example of how Bellamy had left the space for the text to be dropped in - such confidence by typesetters and the editor (Jack Parker)! The text was written by Mike Butterworth (and in the first episode had a page prior to this by Bellamy) and in most issues had accompanying photographs
I have written quite a bit about this series as well as the introduction to the brilliant reprint published by Book Palace - in fact, my profile image shows me at the book signing (yes me, signing a book!) where the real worker was Steve Holland who put the thing together!
I have added all the images the seller has put on the auction in order to capture them before the piece disappears into someone's private collection.
Links:
Centenary video
Overview with links
Additional unpublished image
Buy the book: http://bookpalace.com/acatalog/Frank_Bellamy_Graphic_Novels.html
AUCTION SUMMARY
WHERE?: eBay - wishingonarainbow
STARTING BID: £350
ENDING PRICE:£530
NO. OF BIDS:11
END DATE: Wednesday 21 November 2018
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