While searching ebay...

[Mudcrab]

OMG, surely this is child abuse...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Sun-Annual-for-Boys-1976-/300741732984?pt=UK_Books_comics_Magazines_UK_Comics_ET&hash=item46059aaa78

Anyone ever read this (by accident or otherwise?) I'm shocked. I never realised such horror existed.

[judgefloyd]

I dunno what you're carping about there -it has something of interest to every boy; the land-catamaran things, a balloon and something else.  No doubt the inside features all the other stuff that is of interest to boys (ahem).

I haven't read that, but I did have a bunch of old Tiger annuals and distinctly remember an early 60s one with a Ben Hur-resembling race between land-catamarans (now that I think of it, every other story involved a Ben Hur style race in something or other) - land-catamarans must have been more popular than I thought.

yours, flares-and-duffle-coat-wearingly,

Floyd