Exclusive Reveal at Liverpool Beatles Museum

The Beatles first hit the airwaves in 1963, which is when a then-nine-year-old Nigel Parkinson, now a comic book artist, remembers hearing them.

It was also in 1963 that an interview was published, in which each Beatle spoke about their likes and dislikes, and what they would like to achieve in their careers.

Ringo Starr didn't like curry.

And Paul McCartney wanted to be in a strip of the 'Dandy' comic... He achieved this dream in 2012, when the last ever issue was published.

When the aforementioned Nigel Parkinson, who mainly draws for the Dandy and the Beano, introduced the exhibit, he said, "in my email, I basically said 'it's your last ever chance, Paul', and he came back - I emailed Mark [Lewisohn, Beatles historian and mutual friend] at 10am one morning, and by 1pm I had a reply from Paul via Mark... he came back saying that he did want to be in it."

It set Parkinson's mind alight and whirring, and ended in the publication of the final issue, which featured McCartney and an array of Beatles lyrics, as well as his work with Wings and solo.

However, the absolute final storyboard, also featuring the musician, was never finished and therefore never published.

It was on Thursday 20th October that I was a part of the first group of people in the world to see it - other than Parkinson, McCartney himself, and a few others. The unfinished storyboard and a copy of the McCartney issue are now on display at the Liverpool Beatles Museum.

The storyboard features 'Little Sir Paul McCartney'. Many issues of the Dandy had featured a 'little' celebrity, "it was nerve wracking drawing Sir Paul... I've drawn lots of celebrities before and normally I capture them quite quickly. But I have been looking at him on TV since 1962, have seen him in magazines and I've seen him in concert a couple of times, so I thought it would be quite hard to capture all the different factors of his personality."

Upon receiving two copies from Parkinson of the issue after it had sold out, and seeing the storyboard, McCartney said that some members of his family thought it was the best thing he had ever been in!