Publisher: Fleetway
Publication Dates: 20th January 1962 – 17th April 1982
Number of Issues Published: 1049 (#1 – #1049)
Color: Colour
Dimensions: 10 x 13
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Information thanks to the Grand Comics Database
Look and Learn was a British weekly educational magazine for children published by Fleetway Publications Ltd from 1962 until 1982. It contained educational text articles that covered a wide variety of topics from volcanoes to the Loch Ness Monster; a long running science fiction comic strip, The Trigan Empire; adaptations of famous works of literature into comic-strip form, such as Lorna Doone; and serialized works of fiction such as The First Men in the Moon.
The illustrators who worked on the magazine included Fortunino Matania, John Millar Watt, Peter Jackson, John Worsley, Patrick Nicolle, Ron Embleton, Gerry Embleton, C. L. Doughty, Wilf Hardy, Dan Escott, Angus McBride, Oliver Frey, James E. McConnell, Kenneth Lilly, Graham Coton, Ralph Bruce, R. B. Davis, Severino Baraldi and Clive Uptton.
Among other things, it featured the Pen-Friends pages, a popular section where readers could make new friends overseas.
Look and Learn was the brainchild of Leonard Matthews, the editorial director of juvenile publications at Fleetway Publications which was already publishing the long-running Children’s Newspaper. An early attempt by Matthews to launch a new educational title along the lines of Italian educational magazines Conoscere and La Vita Meravigliosa had been turned down by the Board of Directors.
A British edition of Conoscere was brought out in 1961 under the title Knowledge and Matthews reassessed his original proposal and approached the Board again, this time receiving the go-ahead to produce a dummy of the proposed magazine.
The dummy was put together by the firm’s Experimental Art Department headed by David Roberts and Trevor Newton. David Stone, a former sub-editor with Everybody’s Weekly was appointed editor and, with the dummy approved, the magazine began publication. However, before the new title reached the newsstands, John Sanders replaced Stone as editor.
It did include a comic strip section, the most important strip was The Trigan Empire, a science fiction series written mainly by Mike Butterworth and most notably drawn by Don Lawrence, which first appeared in Ranger in September 1965. It transferred to Look and Learn in issue 232, June 1966 when the two titles merged, and ran there until the title ceased publication. It told the story of an alien culture that contained an educational blend of science and Earth-like ancient civilizations. Another strip was Rob Riley, also originally from Ranger.
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Hi, thanks for these. Great stuff and thanks for all your hard work on this site. I think the links for ‘lal68-07’ and ‘lal68-09’ might be missing?
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You are welcome. These links are missing yes, you can find those in the Update 2020-01-07 A, i will add them to this page some time.
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Dear boutje777, I really appreciate all the hours (days/weeks/months/years) you put into this. I’ve got some stuff I’ll scan and send at some point – I’m in the middle of moving house at present. I have however come across 5 Look and Learn binders from my childhood (the magazines long gone). They’re yours if you want them, I’ll post them in appreciation.
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You are welcome. Thanks for the offer, no need to post them, maybe you can make someone happy who has Look and Learns and like to use those binders.
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hey boutje777. Thank you so much for collecting the L&L mags.I used to read these when i was a kid and i learned so much. i wish they would bring it back – it had so much to offer for young children to learn about a lot of interesting topics
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You are welcome.
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in the Rebellion great re-edition they talk of a Look and Learn Ranger Book for Boys 1968 with the first issue of “The brief reign of sennos the first’
Any info on this one ?
Thanks
Jb
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Look & Learn 291, 292 & 293… https://mega.nz/folder/6eBG2bBB#AgNZNKAPlYorNGuXr6fvCQ
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Thank you very much.
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Added 294 to the above link. 🙂
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Thank you, i’ve grabbed it.
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Just added 295 also. Keep up!! Haha
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Just grabbed 295 also.
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…and, finally, 297 added. I think that means we just need 565, 636 & 967 to complete the Trigan Empire compilation?
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That one is in my pocket also, and i do believe i must have these 3 issues also somewhere, so i can make this title complete.
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Let me know? I’ll keep them on my watch list for now.
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Yes, i have them
565 Look and Learn 1972-11-11
636 Look and Learn 1974-03-23
967 Look and Learn 1980-09-20
I will complete this page after the next update.
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Fantastic!! On to the next job… 🙂
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Hi Boutje777,
Thanks you very much for this wonderful effort, I wish you and team best wishes 🙂 .
Kindly can I ask for your help to find the missing issues:
0281 1967-06-03
0284 1967-06-24
0285 1967-07-01
0289 1967-07-29
0300 1967-10-14
Thanks in advance.
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Thanks, you are welcome. When i find or get missing issues they will be in updates and later on this page.
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I had them allready but forgot to place them on the page, they are now there.
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Tanks a lot my dear. much much appreciated.
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You are welcome.
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That’s really great! Thanks!
I’m asking if it will be available for download here from the 70s as well.
I would be interested in 1975-1980
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There are 3 pages for Look and Learn.
1962-1968
1969-1975
1976-1982
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Morning all, just a quick post. As often happens something triggered the memory of these from my childhood , a quick google search came up with the comic name.. but if i’m correct was there a section of GREY OWL stories, supposedly written by a First Nations woodsman.
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Thanx.Always wanted early copies
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You are welcome, thanks to the scanners and original uploaders.
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Hello, I was looking for the work of Fernando Tacconi made in L&L in the ’60. There is n. 042 – 1962-11-03 that has only half of its pages (last half is missing). Do you think it’d be possible to find a complete copy of it? Thanks in advance!
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I can’t tell i never know what i find/get in the future.
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Thank anyway, I have found a copy in UK. Would you like to ask the seller to mail it to you?
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Thanks for the offer, but no thanks.
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OK, no problem. I will scan it and send you the missing pages…
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Thank you.
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Here it is the complete number. You can substitute the old one. Thanks.
https://mega.nz/file/s8EnxRrK#t3TZeAS6c72yXJVaUytvd50sdGmLSpsQqmSrGG7FACI
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Thank you, i will save it for the next update.
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