PART SEVEN Of FANTASTIC COVER GALLERY...

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And once again, for your delight and delectation, we present you with yet another half-dozen comic covers (and their bombastic back-page pin-ups) from the late, lamented ODHAMS PRESS POWER COMICS publication from the latter half of the swinging 1960s - FANTASTIC.  Yes, Fantastic - both the comic and the era.  If you were around back then and purchased this Power Pack paper, enjoy reliving the heady days of your youth.  If not, then allow yourselves to imagine what it was like to live through the era of 'the three Bs' - The BEATLES, BOND, and BATMAN.  Plus, of course, MARVEL COMICS - in their British Power Comics incarnation.

I associate all of these comics with the house and neighbourhood where I lived at the time, but a couple of them I have more specific memories of.  For example, I remember surreptitiously reading #38 during lessons in one of the annexe huts at school, and studying the cover while showing it to a friend in the playground during the mid-morning interval.  And I recall purchasing #39 on the Saturday my parents took my brother and me along with them to watch The SOUND Of MUSIC (two years after it was first released) in the LA SCALA cinema (now gone) in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street.  If I remember correctly, I purchased a DANDY from the bus station kiosk that day as well.

Anyway, have fun re-experiencing whatever childhood memories of your own that the accompanying images may conjure up - the present will still be here when you decide to return. 

See Part Six here.

PART SEVEN Of TERRIFIC COVER GALLERY...

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And now, for all you pulsatin' POWER fans out there, here's another five fabulous covers from the titanic TERRIFIC, published by ODHAMS PRESS back in 1967.  There are only ten more issues to go in this super series before you've seen the complete set of all forty-three comic covers and their back-page pin-ups, so stay tuned for the next part - coming soon.

Regular readers may remember me mentioning the 'cellar' in my back garden in which I sometimes sat when it rained, reading a pile of comics.  Sometimes, on sunnier, drier days, I would sit on a rug just outside that cellar door, and that's the image which springs to mind whenever I look at the cover of Terrific #31.  These covers are a window into the past, and I look through them often.  Why not do likewise?  You'll be surprised to see that what you thought was a long-vanished view still exists.

  

For Part Six, click here, and for Part One, click here.