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• PIF Gadget was a French comic magazine that featured many cool SW related adverts between 1977 and 1986 including toys, articles, sweepstakes, posters, special issues, stickers, catalogues, and even a mini photographic-story series!
  

• It's origins can be traced back to 1942 when it was called Le Jaune Patriote - an illegal French Communist Party publication during the Nazi occupation of France. It went through a succession of name changes before finally settling on 'PIF Gadget' in 1969. It finally ceased publication in 2009
  

• PIF Gadget easily takes the record for featuring the most vintage SW toys in any publication! Some of these adverts and their issues are highly sought after by SW collectors
  

• The German version of PIF Gadget is 'YPS' - famous for the YPS Snowtrooper! There was also a Scandinavian version known as 'JIPPO'; BILLIKEN (Argentina); and PIU' (Italy).
  

• There is a superb section devoted to PIF Gadget in the excellent book 'From Meccano to Trilogo' by French collector Stéphane Faucourt
  

• Each week PIF Gadget would include a toy (gadget) as a free gift in the comic
  

• PIF Gadget was notable for only running complete stories that were concluded in each issue - as opposed to running serialisations
  

The complete run so far! Thanks for looking :-)



France. Star Wars Cartoon and Puzzle Pages from Pif Gadget 450. 1977.

     



France. Meccano. Star Wars. Pif Gadget 474/479/482/558. 1977/78.

     




France. Miro-Meccano. ESB. Pif Gadget 590. 1980.
France. Miro-Meccano. ESB. Trampline Catalogue Page. Pif Gadget 608. 1980.
France. Miro-Meccano. ESB. Pif Gadget 613. 1980.  



   




France. Content from Pif Gadget ESB Special 595. 1980.  

           

   




France. Bootleg Vader. Pif Gadget 656. 1981.  
France. Milky Way R2-D2 Offer. Pif Gadget 652. 1981.
France. Miro-Meccano. Pif Gadget 683. 1982.
France. Miro-Meccano. Pif Gadget 716. 1982.

       





France. ESB Miro-Meccano Saynettes from Pif Gadget. June 1981 to May 1982.

       

       

       

       

       




France. ESB Miro-Meccano Quarter Page Ads from Pif Gadget. September 1982 to December 1982.

           

   




France. ROTJ. Miro-Meccano. Content from Pif Gadget 737. 1983.

 





France. ROTJ. Content from Pif Gadget 758. 1983.

   




France. Content from Pif Gadget ROTJ Special 759. 1983.

       

       





France. Pif Gadget 760. 1983.
France. Pif Gadget 763. 1983.
France. Pif Gadget 765. 1983.

   




France. Yoda Head Icons. Pif Gadget 765/792/793/794/795. 1983.






France. Pif Gadget 818. 1983.
France. Pif Gadget 830. 1985.
France. Pif Gadget 849. 1985.
France. Pif Gadget 851. 1985.
France. Pif Gadget 869. 1985.






France. Content from Pif Poche Special Jeux. 1983.






France. Back cover from Pif Poche 218. 1983.






I began collecting the adverts in 2010 with the aim of finding each one that was featured in From Meccano to Trilogo
.......  approx 63 adverts! No easy task, especially as I wanted them in their complete condition inside the original issue and not loose cut-outs.
Three five years on, I'm happy to say that my run is finally complete.

Along the way I also began collecting the non-toy adverts that were not featured in Meccano to Trilogo such as Figurine Panini, movie ads, articles and features - even making a few new discoveries that I've since shared with Stéphane Faucourt - who I'd like to thank for helping me out with some great info on PIF Gadget Star Wars ads!
Thanks also to Arnold (Skywalkerhu) who helped me out with a few issues!

I'm just looking for issue #678 to complete the run from Stéphane's book! If anyone can help LMK please! Thanks for looking :-)