SUPERCAR ANNUAL 1963

SUPERCAR ANNUAL 1963

This marvellous looking annual was published in 1963 and so was a little before my time. SUPERCAR was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for ATV and ITC Entertainment. Thirty-nine episodes were produced between 1961 and 1962 and it was Anderson's first half-hour series. The plot of the show largely consisted of Supercar, a space age car able to take off vertically and hover on a cushion of air, being piloted around by the rugged and hirsutely eyebrowed Mike Mercury, and otherwise getting involved in all sorts of secret adventures and battling the show’s arch nemesis, the nefarious Masterspy. Although Supercar adventures also appeared in TV COMIC ANNUALS at the time, it was soon given its own Christmas annual as the show grew in popularity. Like all of the 1960s Gerry Anderson Christmas annuals, they have a nostalgic value that in many ways far outweighs their cost, but then in those days you got a lot more for your pounds, shillings and pence, and are well worth the money.