Starcruiser......This is a bit of an oddity in Look-in strips but often forgotten and never chronicled (actually most strips in Look-in haven't been chronicled,many are mentioned and some partially and often wrongly chronicled at other sites).
But this is Comics UK.So all Starcruiser strips will be chronicled correctly.
Starcruiser was a half page strip running in Look-in from 1977 to 1979.
The other part of the page was "The Worlds of Gerry Anderson".
Sometimes you just got the Anderson bit,other times just the picture strip but they were generally part of a package.
Basically,"The Worlds.." was a really great half page where Mr Anderson would answer special effects type questions from readers.
The strip was an idea Gerry had for his next show,basically an educational type space adventure.
This wasn't without precedent,GA had previously made the fantastic made for TV film "Into Infinity" with Nick Tate,Katherine Levy and Brian Blessed (known as "The Day After Tomorrow" outside UK.
This was conceived as a "space educational show" but the pilot unfortunately didn't take off.
Personally I love it but I digress....
Starcruiser was written and drawn by David Jeffris.
Airfix did release kits from the strip and later dinky toys were made that resembled the kits.
I wasn't a fan of the strip as a kid as it seemed a bit like Chibnalls' later version of Dr Who (not in the way that series was so woke and preachy but in an educational preachy way to a 9 yr old).
But the craft were amazing and I loved my models.
I've never read this strip,even skipped it as a kid,so will be an interesting one to chronicle.
STARCRUISER:An Introduction
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