CADET DALEKS SWEET CIGARETTE CARDS From The '60s - PART FIVE...

Copyright BBC TV and the Estate of TERRY NATION

I'd imagine there must be quite a number of cavortin' Crivvies out there who are patiently waiting for the next instalment of The DALEKS sweet cigarette cards by confectionery company CADET.  Therefore, anxious not to disappoint their eager expectations, here are the next five cards in the series.  We're now at the halfway mark with only 25 cards to go to complete the set, so don't forget to keep your eyes peeled for them in future posts, on this, the best blog in the world.  (As voted by myself, of course.  Who else could be so deluded?)  

PART SIXTEEN Of FAVOURITE COMICS Of The PAST - FRIENDS, ROMANS, SUPERHEROES...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

IPC's new EAGLE comic came out on March 20th, 1982 (cover-dated 27th), but that's not the comic I want to reminisce about this time 'round, o cultured Crivvie comicbook collectors.  So why mention it, the more astute among you may be wondering.  That seems an entirely reasonable question, so I'll tell you.

I'd bought a copy of the revived title on the day, which was a Saturday, but I wanted another one because I'd damaged the cover while removing the free space spinner gift.  Consequently, the very next morning (Sunday), I took a stroll along to my old neighbourhood, where lay situated the very newsagent's from which I'd bought some of my very favourite comics back in the '60s and '70s.

I picked up a couple of copies of the new comic from the counter and then took a glance at a magazine shelf behind me.  What's this?  FANTASTIC FOUR #241 stared up at me in almost pristine newness, begging for me to buy it and take it home with me.  So I did!  The legendary JOHN BYRNE was the writer and artist on the mag at the time, and his run ranks right up there with STAN LEE's and JACK KIRBY's celebrated 102 issues over a ground-breaking nine year span.

On my way home, I dropped in on someone I knew, who gifted me with his SMASH! Annual for 1974, which he'd got as a Christmas present way back in 1973.  The reason for this act of seeming generosity sprang from his desire to induce me to paint a HULK picture on his wall at a later date.  If I remember correctly, I drew the outline that very day, and returned on a couple of subsequent occasions to paint it in.

To digress for but a mere moment, a few years before, I'd painted a life-size Hulk on another friend's ground-floor bedroom wall at the front of his house, and it soon became the talk of the steamie.  People couldn't walk past his house without standing and staring in through his window in admiration at my awesome artistic achievement (he said, modestly).

Anyway, on that particular Sunday of March 21st, I returned home with a couple of Eagle comics, a Fantastic Four mag and a Smash Annual - all of which I've still got.  I may show you pages from the other two publications in the future, but for the moment, let's savour a few images from the fabulous foursome's 241st issue of 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine!'

And you know what?  Back then, it was!