The Daily Telegraph magazine - Octobriana cover (29 October 1971)

Good condition for age - yellowing to page edges - light curling at spine

COMIC-STRIP HEROINE OF A COMMUNIST UNDERGROUND - Here we publish, for the first time in the West, the face and pneumatic figure of a secret comic-strip heroine of the Underground movement in Russia, who exists despite the highly repressive Government and a puritanical society. Smuggled reports reveal a Barbarella -like figure stalking the pages of a clandestine press. In the magazine Mtsyry Octobriana sweeps the world, upholding the principles of total freedom and human self-realisation combating the oppression of the Kremlin and of other regimes. The covers of the three issues of Mtsyry show the wildly imaginative range of her activities - and the comic-strip consistency of her style. Anthony Lejeune and Tom Stacey tell how she was created, and how she was brought to Britain
7 pages

ASTRAL DIAGNOSIS - City companies consult astrologers on bids. Since the Babylonians, the zodiac has guided many lives. How do astrologers view their responsibilities? How much faith do clients place in the final analysis? Sean Hignett met both sides and reviews the astral scene. Featuring Zandra Rhodes, Ian McKellen, Ivor Richard
Four and a half pages

FASHION - "An Art Deco Collection"
When photographer Anders Holmquist found a collection of brooches, pins, and other objects of the Twenties/Thirties in a small mercerie in Nice and showed them to us, we decided to ask him to take these fashion photographs to show how some of the latest London clothes can relate to the Art Deco ideas of that time
4 page fashion