Founded in 1979 by former Brown Watson bosses Peter and Brian Babani, Grandreams produced annuals based on television and film properties such as Battlestar Galactica, Return of the Jedi (reprinting the Marvel Comics adaptation), M.A.S.K, Minder, The Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew, Knight Rider, Home & Away(!), T.J Hooker, the Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas, as well as numerous annuals for Marvel UK (who were based in the same building, Jadwin House in Kentish Town, London; Grandreams were on the first floor, Marvel on the second). Their Marvel annuals obviously reprinted existing American material, but much of their other output featured original material by British artists, some of it fairly noteworthy in itself. It is unclear when Grandreams ceased trading, though they certainly published a Superman Annual in late 1996.
