1973 was a year in which conflict spread across the world including here in the UK. The crisis in Northern Ireland had led to attacks on British troops and IRA bombs were exploding in Manchester and Victoria Station in London. There was an energy crisis leading to power cuts and the three day week with TV closing down early due to the miners strike and a shortage of coal.
Despite all this being Brits we carried on regardless. Pink Floyd released Dark Side of the Moon, the top selling British record of all time. I had their poster overlooking my Tri-ang Hornby model railway as I was in my penultimate year at school. I travelled abroad by myself for the first time visiting Israel, going to the Wailing Wall and taking a trip to the Sinai desert and swimming in the Red Sea.
Then the Yom Kippur War broke out. The world was indeed in crisis...
Yet the first commercial radio station began legally broadcasting and Live and Let Die with Roger Moore as 007 was in the cinemas and our comics including Look-in continued to come out. This issue kicked off with a one-page comic strip featuring the very popular cast of On The Buses with old Flakeys catch phrase "I hate you Butler" being a popular school playground phrase.
Here's clip form the Cilla Black how featuring our favourite inspector:
There was plenty of comedy too. Comic strips of Les Dawson. The Fenn Street Gang and Doctor in Charge. For the girls there was Follyfoot. There was also a strange adventure strip called Elephant Boy which began as a TV series in 1972 though I'd not heard of it until now. Based on some Rudyard Kipling yarn I understand.
This was also the year Alice Cooper released what I consider his best album and is certainly one of my all time favourites, Billion Dollar Babies. The previous years School's Out anthem was joined by Elected:
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The "Look-in" to the seventies continues all week on Howie's World of Comics". Tomorrow:1974
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