PART TWELVE Of MWOM COVER GALLERY - With CLASSIC TALE...

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Only one issue of The MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL this time around, but what an issue it is.  Containing the STAN LEE & STEVE DITKO tale, "I USED TO BE... HUMAN!", this classic was worth the cost of 5 pence by itself back in 1973 - and then some.  I've posted this story before, from the 1968 FANTASTIC annual, but that version's text had been slightly revised in places.  Not so with this presentation, which is exactly as Stan typed it and ARTIE SIMEK lettered it.  (The panels were slightly cropped, however, to fit the different U.K. page dimensions.)

There's no point in me saying "enjoy" - how can you fail to? 

PART TWO Of The DALEKS SWEET CIGARETTE CARDS From The '60s...

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As you'll know from the previous post in this series, there was once an item of confectionery for kids manufactured by CADET (the confectionery, not the kids) which came with a collectable card in each packet - 50 in total.  Dr. WHO & The DALEKS cards are now extremely sought after and command quite a few pounds these days  so I hope you appreciate my generosity in letting you see both sides of them and not charging a penny.

Believed to be drawn by RICHARD JENNINGS, one of the artists on the '60s Dalek Annuals and back page TV CENTURY 21 strip, they portray a far more energetic Doctor than we were then used to seeing on our television screens.  Perhaps he had a secret stash of extra-strength vitamin pills that he was popping, who knows?  (No pun intended.)  Oh, and he seems to be from Earth, not Gallifrey, according to whoever it was who scripted the cards.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed this blast from the past - keep your peepers peeled for Part Three - coming soon.

TV21's STAR TREK - PART TWO...

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And now, from the dim and distant days of 1970 - and the pages of TV21 #40 (new series) - comes STAR TREK, boldly going (to split the infinitive - h'mm, sounds like a scientific achievement) where quite a few comic strips had gone before, actually.  However, let's just marvel at the action-packed, storytelling brilliance of magnificent MIKE NOBLE at his awesomely artistic peak.  Okay, so the colour of CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK's tunic and toupee are wrong (and SCOTTY's outfit too, by the looks of it), but it doesn't bother me - I'm colour-blind.

Beam up for Part Three - by clicking here.