SEVEN FACSIMILE COMICS - DID YOU HAVE THEM...?

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It only seems like two or three years back since I heard that several facsimiles of famous IPC/Fleetway and DCT comic titles were being issued with The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, but I only learned of them after the fact and never managed to obtain any at the time.  Thank goodness for eBay, eh?  I now have all seven of them, which I managed to acquire recently for a very reasonable price (far less per issue than a new comic would cost nowadays).  They were issued in 2009 - a staggering 14 years ago, though it sure doesn't seem anywhere near as long as that to me.  These facsimiles were published when several people I knew who have since died were yet hale and hearty - where did the time go?

Interestingly, the DCT comics have no interior references to the fact they're facsimiles, whereas the IPC/Fleetway ones do.  In 2009 Egmont owned the copyright on titles and strips which were later acquired by Rebellion.

Anyway, thought you might like to see them so no sooner said than done.  If you had any of them at the time, what did you think of them?  Comments welcome.

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