WOW! FANTASTIC COVER GALLERY PART TEN...

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Presenting yet another phantasmagorical panoply of Power-packed pictorial delights - I give you FANTASTIC #s 55-60, published by ODHAMS PRESS back in the late '60s.  I could wax eloquent all day about these MARVEL masterpieces, but it wouldn't be fair to hold you back from passing your peepers over the pop-art productions which follow.  So let's not waste another second - dive right in, the water's lovely.  

KID ROBSON'S A TV? NO - KID ROBSON'S ON TV...

              

Here's your genial and handsome host in a television appearance from 1998, on a show called UNDER THE HAMMER.  (And there's doubtless a few people who wish that I were - literally.)  There's an interesting little story to this (I trust), which is why I thought I'd illustrate it with the actual clip.  I don't know where GRAMPIAN TV got my name, but they contacted me about doing an interview on the subject of comics, to which I readily agreed.

On the actual day, about six or seven people turned up - but upon seeing my room, exclaimed "It's an Aladdin's cave!  Forget comics, we'll do a feature on toys!"  Whoever would have thought so many people were required to film one person talking?  There was a cameraman, soundman, interviewer, director, producer, lighting man, etc.  The director and the producer sat in my back room, watching events on a monitor, and the rest all packed into my front room while I held court, so to speak.

Altogether, they were here for about two hours or so, but guess what?  When the programme was broadcast several months later, my moment of glory only lasted under three minutes - if.  That means (assuming ANDY WARHOL was correct) I'm still owed about another twelve and a bit minutes of fame - and I aim to collect!