It was under Parker's editorship that the paper underwent a facelift with issue 844 (18 March 1978) and celebrated its 1,000th issue (). Davies had previously edited The Children's Newspaper until it merged with Look and Learn (issue 173, ).ĭavies continued the magazine with the same mixture as before (the page count of the magazine having increased from 32 pages to 36 to accommodate the additional content), as did the editors who followed him, Andy Vincent (1969–1977) and Jack Parker (1977–1982). This amalgamation was overseen by recently appointed editor John Davies who had replaced Sanders when the latter left to edit the short-lived Ranger in 1965.
The adventure Asterix and Cleopatra appears under the title In the Days of Good Queen Cleo, with the Gauls turned into Ancient Britons, with Asterix and Obelix renamed "Beric" and "Doric". The French comic strip Asterix also featured. This amalgamation brought with it a number of comic strips including The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire, written by Mike Butterworth and drawn by Don Lawrence. The first major change to the contents of the magazine came in 1966 when it incorporated Ranger with issue 232 (25 June 1966). To advance this principle, the features were clearly and briskly written and illustrated by some of the finest artists of the era resulting in a magazine of unmatched quality." Historian Steve Holland has said, "The premise of Look and Learn was to delight and inspire the imaginations of its young readers. The success of the magazine has been put down to the high quality of the magazine's content. The first issue of the magazine sold about 700,000 copies and settled down to a regular sale of over 300,000 copies a week. Jerome and "The Children's Crusade" by Henry Treece and a feature on the founding of the World Wildlife Fund. The debut issue also contained the first episodes of " Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. The first issue of Look and Learn was dated 20 January 1962, and contained a wide spectrum of features ranging from articles on history (Rome, the Houses of Parliament, the story of King Charles I, "The Dover Road", "From Then Till Now"), science ("Eyes on Outer Space"), geography and geology ( The Grand Canyon, "The Quest for Oil"), art ( Vincent van Gogh), nature ("The story of a seed", "Your Very Own Basset Hound"), literature ( The Arabian Nights and its editor Sir Richard Burton) and travel ("The Children of Tokio"). However, before the new title reached the newsstands, John Sanders replaced Stone as editor. David Stone, a former sub-editor with Everybody's Weekly was appointed editor and, with the dummy approved, the magazine began publication. The dummy was put together by the firm's Experimental Art Department headed by David Roberts and Trevor Newton. Ī 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. 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. 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. Davis, Severino Baraldi and Clive Uptton.Īmong other things, it featured the Pen-Friends pages, a popular section where readers could make new friends overseas. McConnell, Kenneth Lilly, Graham Coton, Ralph Bruce, R. Doughty, Wilf Hardy, Dan Escott, Angus McBride, Oliver Frey, James E. The illustrators who worked on the magazine included Fortunino Matania, John Millar Watt, Peter Jackson, John Worsley, Patrick Nicolle, Ron Embleton, Gerry Embleton, C.
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. Look and Learn was a British weekly educational magazine for children published by Fleetway Publications Ltd from 1962 until 1982. Look and Learn cover page from 25 March 1972
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