The subject of AP Investigates was Stan Still's Stopwatch.

Hamble's Splendid Adventure involved her new toy.

The idea of comic strip Stan Still's Stopwatch - a stopwatch that, when pressed ("Press!") brought the universe except for Stan Still to a halt until pressed again ("Press!") - has always struck me as fantastically great, especially as a reason for the stopwatch's mysterious power was never given. I've occasionally toyed with stealing the idea and doing something new with it, so was completely unsurprised to see this winter's Children's ITV schedules include Bernard's Watch, a direct rip-off of Stan Still's Stopwatch, except live-action, with someone called Bernard, and a plot involving a detailed explanation of the (fob)watch's mysterious power. Ho ho! That's put a fish in my plans!

Where's Peter? is possibly the single most appallingly disrespectful treatment of terminal illness in the entire issue. You and up to five friends play failed actors who want to meet the rapidly fading Peter Cushing before he collapses and dies, and by skilful rolls and keen spatial perception you must reach the exit after collecting Peter from the centre of the maze while avoiding the penalty black spots. ("Rrrrchkkk - THROW A SIX!") D'you know, I like to think that "Sir" himself would have enjoyed a round or two, though probably not two.

Terror Of Doctor X enlists Lon Chaney Jr, Harry Langdon in a hat, Harry Morgan from MASH and Arch Obler to justify printing in full the origin of a pulp comic superhero called Streamline. ("Phew, that's odd - I feel amazing strength surging through me - must be due to the atomic radiation! I'm a super-man - and that gives me an idea. I'll outdo those comic-book heroes!") Just fifteen months later, AMIGA POWER and everyone involved with it was dead.