Funny, I chucked out eight volumes of Arthur Mee’s Encyclopedia last year, clearing out the house of a loved one who had died. Was hard to throw them away.

Kept a couple of Look and Learn’s though. What a great magazine that was.

And I loved Adam Eterno and Janus Stark of Valiant.

i didn’t go straight from treasure to L&L, i read world of wonder for a while—which was self-consciously more science-heavy than history-heavy… i remember a picture of a man in a bodysuit holding two little pellets of plutonium and the blazing SF city over his shoulder that this tiny handful of future fuel would power!

also its best adventure strip wasn’t the weird romano-scifi epic the trigan empire but about a world threatened by scary androids

(actually one of the stories i remember really clearly from L&L was also called “the man who couldn’t die”—but this one was the villain not the hero, and the story got a bit boring after a while as he continued to fail to be killed in lame get-out-clause kinds of ways) (if i remember correctly the tale ended with him retiring from angry unkillable evil to live out eternity in the south of france, and sipping cocktails on the sea-front in final panel with his trouser-legs rolled up)

the best story in lion and thunder was janus stark the indiarubber man, victorian escapologist turned crime-fighter, drawn like adam eterno by Francisco Solano Lopez, who later went on to write a ton of european “erotic art” graphic novels