Follyfoot Annual 1975

Hardcover in overall good condition condition. Some page separation from spine happening at the bottom of pages as shown. Inscription inside cover.

World Distributors for Yorkshire Television Limited, 1974 The usual mixture of articles, puzzles and comic strip stories. Red Tempest The Stranger Slugger’s Secret Gipsy Rock Queen for a Day Hideout at Follyfoot Phantom at Follyfoot

Follyfoot was a television experience you’ll probably have had if you were a pony-mad child in the 1970s. The series was based on Monica Dickens’ novel Cobbler’s Dream. Hero Paul rescues Cobbler’s Dream from his abusive owner, but not before she has blinded him in one eye. He takes the pony to a horse rescue: Follyfoot. (On the way he manages to change his name: he is Paul in Cobbler’s Dream, but Steve in most of the Follyfoot novels). Monica Dickens wrote four Follyfoot stories: the later ones certainly came after the television series appeared. The Follyfoot Annuals were not, I think, written by Monica Dickens. Five were produced, with the same format of comic strip stories, factual articles and puzzles. Follyfoot, the comic strip, first saw the light of day in Look In magazine. It was written by Angus Allan and illustrated by Mike Noble, Stanley Houghton, and Martin Asbury, and ran from 1971–74.