they started in 1981 mate, think it was 2 a year in those days, are they not numbered? I should have them all upto about 1995,when I just got bogged down with too many mags, my collection goes back to the days of Creel and probably before! In the early days of carp magazines, not many people produced them, in fact from memory "The Carp" was the first one, now everybody does one.