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I'm saying the lady, say what?

It's number 41 in the never-ending series of the Melchester Odyssey.

Last time we were looking at the 5th

September 1981 edition and we didn't get any further than the cover unfortunately

there was new strips new haircuts all sorts going on and we couldn't even get into the

the meat and drink of the whole story itself but we're trying to do that in this one I

think yeah super competition it says plus Gary Shaw we didn't cover that either.

But what could you want the Super competition and Gary Shaw?

The good thing about the 1970s well I know I keep talking about that because I'm in the middle reading that simultaneously

Is what they that we see these things they advertise on the cover and they tantalize us don't they were sort of like oh I

imagine I wonder what the super competition with Gary Shaw was like in the

70s one every now and again they run the other features in between the comic strips you get the odd page here and there like

so there's quizzes there's the odd thing where it's just a picture of a player and always slightly overweight professional football.

Which by the way, I mean not even a joke they all were. All yeah they weren't all fat but they were sort of they're in a

similar shape to me sort of things you know I mean it's kind of like not not fat but by

no means professional athlete standard. Do you know what I mean? Well their diet was mainly paying chips and beer wasn't?

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