The Trigan Empire - Classic or FUCKING CLASSIC

I only ever read the 'Look and Learn' stories in the 1960s and am amazed that stories continued being churned out into the 1970s, though I did however come across an Italian version in a Paris comic shop in the 1980s. Apparently there are masses of Dutch editions, though I've never seen them. I was always a great fan (I used to cut out the characters and invent my own stories, like a Victorian paper theatre). A particularly good storyline I remember was about Trigan death rituals. The old and infirm would go into caves to die, but it transpired that they were then put to work in slave labour camps.

Ron Embleton, who did some of the art work, though I'm not sure if he was the artist when I was reading it, illustrated several books about real Romans.

HEWWWPP!!!
Have been trying to find any online info about Look & Learn, to wit, the one dominant key was using Trigan Empire as my main search key. Anybody know of say, a net archive of TE or L&L? It's hillarious how 25 years on what to me then (And still is actually)was pictoral eye candy (uberlush illustrations)now takes in part a strong homo-erotic subtext coupled with facist leanings.
Can anybody help re the episode about the guy up in the space station...classic revenge motif. If I remember correctly, he lures them back there, and then forces them to watch looped episodes of Coronation St, tho I might be wrong on the last bit...and then there was the ep where a sepratist cell try and overthrow Margaret Thatcher's Diaphragm...and end up creating Dennis...

I recall reading this fantastic comic strip in another magazine in the mid-late 60's, when I was about 12 years old, in Calcutta India: The magazine was calles "The Golden Book of Knowledge", and I recall the very first episode {Dead hand on Astro Helm, et al} clearly. The artwork and story line had us siblings all gripped for the 4-5 years that theGolden Book was available for subscription in India in those days. It stopped being published, as I recall, much to my despair, since we really used to wait for the next episode of this GREAT classic.
Anyone else out there who remembers this magazine? As I remember, it also had some other interesting comic strips such as Wildcat Wayne,but nothing to compare to the artwork and lavish mounting of Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire.

was it only published in India?

"As for that Tintin, he was a little clipe, a stool pigeon, racist and Nazi..."

Not in Breaking Free he wasn't.

Don Lawrence died recently... there was an obituary for him in The Independent.

Holy shit, I have the Trigan Empire book....always thought it was Italian in origin, tho', Alas.