VALIANT FREE GIFTS AND KEY ISSUES

6th Oct 1962  (#1) - Pocket Rocket and League Ladders fold out card13th Oct (#2) - Giant Book of World War Two and League Ladder Team Tabs

20th Oct (#3) – (Magnifying Glass) and League Ladder Team Tabs
27th Oct (#4) - League Ladder Team Tabs
23rd Feb 1963 - 2d Bar of Sharp's Super Kreem Toffee - 1st Valiant & Knockout
2nd Mar 1963 - Balloon-A-Zoom
24th Sep 1964 - League Ladders fold out card

3rd Oct 1964 - League Ladder Team Tabs (2nd Division and Scottish 2nd Division)

10th Oct 1964 - League Ladder Team Tabs (3rd Division)

17th Oct 1964 - League Ladder Team Tabs  (4th Division). An example with writing on the back sold on E Bay Jan 2010 for £12.50

30th Apr 1966 - Model Plane
7th May 1966 - Model Plane parts

2nd Mar 1968 - Red Arrow plastic plane

9th Mar 1968 - Valiant Identikit Set. An example sold for £103.10 on E Bay Oct 2008. Amazing! It does tend to turn up in pieces rather than all still attached
23rd May 1970 - World Cup 1970 Wall Chart. Plus 4 colour cards and 32 coloured flags (all as one unit and needed to be cut out very carefully. Hopefully like me you didn’t!)
30th May/6th/13th Jun 1970 - 4 colour footballer cards and 16 coloured flags
20th Jun 1970 - 4 colour footballer cards
16th Oct 1971 - My Favourite Soccer Stars Album plus 8 footballer picture cards
23rd Oct/30th Oct/6th Nov 1970 - 8 footballer picture cards per issue
5th Oct 1974 - Kicking Footballer
29th Mar 1975 - plastic Pop Pistol

Key issues

23rd Feb 1963 - 1st Valiant & Knockout; 1st Kelly's Eye in title
28th Mar 1964 - 1st The Wild Wonders
26th Sep 1964 - 1st Mytek the Mighty
29th Oct 1966 - 1st House of Dolmann
13th Jan 1968 - 1st Sexton Blake
2nd Mar 1968 - 1st Raven on the Wing
9th Mar 1968 - 1st Is It True cover feature
10th Apr 1971 - 1st Valiant & Smash
2nd Oct 1971 - 1st Valiant & TV 21; 1st Star Trek in title
25th May 1974 - 1st Valiant & Lion
10th Apr 1976 - 1st Valiant & Vulcan