This spread (to be found in My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, on sale still) shows me buying how many comics? By my reckoning I bought thirteen in a day. Buster and Vulcan are the Brit weeklies I'm still getting at this time, a jumble sale turns up a Beezer annual and a Whoopee, then there's my weekly Planet Of The Apes (two issues), Avengers and Superheroes, and I top it off with newsagent purchases of two US Marvels (Ka-Zar and Man-Wolf), two Atlasses (Ironjaw & Planet Of Vampires), and a DC (Superman Family).
Not only am I buying them, I'm producing my own. Quite how "A Star Is Born", "Battle For The Planet Of The Apes", and "In Days Of Old" turned out I have no memory, but to have three comic strips on the go at one time is quite something. Ironically, at time of writing this fifty years later, I find myself in a similar position, with four Shakespeare books all in a half finished state.
My Records For The Day are two stone cold classics which I still love today
In this spread (which you can find in the My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, still on sale) we learn that I've started doing a aper round and that it pays me £2 a week. All going into that Italy 1976 fund, as mentioned last month. My love of Doctor Who, Tiswas, and Marvel comics remains central to my little world. And, as we can also see, precious little of interest ever happened.
My Records For The Day range from the often replayed David Essex to the not-much-talked-about Jonathan King.
As we see in this spread (one of a dozen in the My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, which is still on sale) I was saving up for a school trip to Italy in 1976. At the rate of 55p per household chore, I can't imagine the fund was building quickly, and I have no memory how much I was trying to raise. I do know the trip took place - when I dig out my diaries for April 1976 we'll see how, or if, I found time to write about it.
My love of comics has become all-consuming since the start of the year, and I'm now blowing way more than I'm earning for this Italy fund, buying Valiant, Buster, Mighty World Of Marvel, Avengers, The Superheroes every week, not to mention that David Cassidy album, which I still have and it remains one of my favourites.
