Annuals were always the perennial favourite Xmas gift in the 60's and 70's, they were about in the 80's but their popularity had waned a bit. There can't be many people my age who don't remember getting an annual of their favourite TV series. Look-in fulfilled this need too, releasing annuals until at least 1991. Annuals contained strips of course, great in the beginning, as it meant some new stories to read, but as the years progressed they became a bit lazy, and resorted to edited reprints of strips that had appeared earlier on, in the magazine.