AN AMAZING SIGHT ON PLANET KRALKA...

I recently visited Planet KRALKA on a whistle-stop inter-galactic tour, where I spied the most amazing sight.  Believe it or not, there was the original incarnation of The DOCTOR, enjoying a quiet snifter of invigorating Kralkan air, in the company of a first-generation DALEK.  (They were obviously visiting from the 1960s as the Doctor's current manifestation is a foppish, public schoolboy twit with a 'jolly hockey sticks' accent and in desperate need of a good ol' Glasgow kicking.)  What's more astounding, however, was the fact that Doctor and Dalek appeared to be the best of pals.

Huh!  Just goes to show you can't believe everything you see on the telly.  They'll be telling us that they're only actors next.  (What do you mean, there's too much vinegar on my chips?)

COMIC COVERS 'SNAP'! - PART ELEVEN...

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I love the colours on the cover of DETECTIVE COMICS #359, the mag which introduced us to BARBARA GORDON's (new) BATGIRL.  The shop from which I originally bought it in the late 1960s (or possibly very early '70s) still exists (CORSON'S), and I have a number of comics in my collection that I first bought from its premises.  Although the shop survives, unfortunately it no longer sells any American comicbooks (and hasn't for a good many years now), but that's true of most, if not all, U.K. newsagents nowadays.  A vanished era indeed.

The cover clearly made an impact not just on my young mind, but others, too, must have been impressed by it, as witnessed by the two relatively recent examples below.  In this case, nothing quite beats the original though.  You disagree?  Then tell us all why in the comments section.

Yvonne Craig (Batgirl) reads about her comic debut