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Remember in the good ol' days (1960s & '70s), when Annuals seemed to be about an inch thick, with loads of content and felt like an event? They started getting thinner in the '80s, and nowadays Annuals don't look even as thick as a '60s or '70s Summer Special. Take a look at this WHIZZER & CHIPS Annual for 1994 (issued in '93) which I received today. It's the final Annual in the series and isn't a patch on the very first one for 1971 (issued in '70). I've scanned the spines so that you can see the difference, though it must be borne in mind that thicker paper was used in the earlier Annual, which was true of most titles. The first Annual had 160 pages (including covers) and the last had only 80 (including covers), so it had half the page count of the first book, though with 46 interior pages in full colour, it beats the 15 of the first (though that had spot-colour and two-tone pages).
Will you be buying any Annuals this year, Readers? If so, which ones?
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