Hey you! – all the parents, uncles, aunts, childless family friends and generally-nonplussed, bemused or bewildered, child-adjacent comics fans. Do you ever wonder what to get the scary, somehow unfathomable younglings, footling ankle-biters and drooling rug-rats that implacably impinge on every Christmas, birthday (so, so many birthdays!) or extended family event?

Have you ever considered that if you catch ’em early enough you could actually turn those little devils dears into readers and even actual Comics Fans too? Then perhaps you’ll actually have something to talk about whenever you’re stuck with them… 

Here’s some more suggestions that should make gift-shopping easier this year – and why not read the books, before wrapping them up? They’re all awfully good…Â