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Sapphire & Steel
"Possession"
Look-In (1979) #41-45
Written by: Angus Allan
Art by: Arthur Ransom |
A young deaf girl is given the power to turn her thoughts into
reality by a Victorian necklace.
Read the story summary at Animus Web
Didja Know?
Comic strips in
Look-In magazine were generally not credited to
author and artist. According to the
Animus Web site, the
Sapphire & Steel strips were written by Angus
Allan and drawn by
Arthur Ransom.
All of the strips feature Sapphire and Steel dressed in the
clothes they wore in the first television storyline,
"Escape Through a Crack in Time".
The artist must have had only photo references from those early
episodes.
This story appeared in five issues of Look-In, a UK
magazine geared towards kids. The story is told in comic strip
form and appeared in two-page chapters of each issue.
The story itself is untitled. I borrowed the title
"Possession" and short description from the
Sapphire & Steel Chronology on the
Look-In wiki.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Mr. Johnson
Dorothy Johnson
Sarah Johnson
jewelry store clerk (unnamed)
Granny Johnson (mentioned only, deceased)
Steel
Sapphire
1873 artist (unnamed, in Steel's vision of past only)
Didja Notice?
On page 1 of the story, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson purchase a
Victorian Age necklace for their daughter's 14th birthday
from an ordinary High Street jeweler. "High Street" is a
term representing the primary street of a town in the United
Kingdom, similar to the term "Main Street" in the USA.
On page 8, with Sapphire's help, Steel is able to see that the
Victorian artist who crafted the painting on Sarah's bedroom
wall worked in
London
in 1873.
On pages 8-9, Steel, as he concentrates on the 1873 artist,
is seen in a pose reminiscent of The Thinker,
a bronze sculpture by French sculptor Auguste Rodin
(1840-1917).
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