ARE YOU A BLUE BOY?

Here's JIMBO singing BLUE BOY.

Click on that arrow and get those feet

tappin'.  Top stuff.

HAPPY HALLOWE'EN TO SID AND SHINER...

Here's a blast from the past!  The GUY FAWKES mask free with WHIZZER & CHIPS #3 back in 1969 (issue dated November 1st, but on sale October 25th), and the NEW Annual currently available at the larger branches of SAINSBURY'S.  The book is priced at £7.99 on the back cover, but is being sold at the specially discounted price of only £3.99 - an absolute bargain for sure.  It contains material from Annuals between 1971 and '85 -and the front cover is sourced from the very first edition, the back cover from the second.  Go on - buy a copy and relive your long lost childhood!

(And remember - the mask doesn't come with the Annual.  I've only included it because it's appropriate for the time of year and I thought you might like to see it.)

I WON'T FORGET YOU - JIM REEVES...

The man with the golden voice, JIM REEVES, sings 

 a song that was released a week before he was killed in a

'plane crash on July 31st 1964.  It reached #3 in Britain,

and remained in the charts for a staggering 26 weeks.

BABE OF THE DAY - GETYA KITTON...

Just a very short post to let you

know that personal circumstances yet

prevent me from regular blogging, and

it'll be a little longer before I return with

my hyperbolic 'haverings'!  Meanwhile,

here's a nice babe to make your mouth

water and kickstart your heartbeat.

Am I good to you or what?

BABE OF THE DAY - PAMELA GONCALVES...

I'd hoped to be able to publish the

occasional post and reply to comments

in between attending to an urgent matter,

but unfortunately, time won't allow me to do

so for the foreseeable future.  I'll see you all

when things return to normal (or what passes

for normal around here).  Meantime, here's

the extremely vivacious Miss PAMELA

GONCALVES to put a bit of a spring

 in your step.  Schwiiiinnnggg!

BABE OF THE DAY - DALIAH LAVI (AGAIN)...

Yet unable to resume daily blogging,

but here's a 'babe' to prove I haven't quite

abandoned you all.  Crivvies, I give you -

the delectable DALIAH LAVI!

STAN LEE IN GLASGOW, 1991...

Stan 'the Man' Lee certainly knows how to
react to a camera pointing in his direction

Just time for a quick post to allay fears that I've disappeared off the face of the globe or have turned up my tootsies.  Way back on Friday, 15th November 1991, STAN LEE visited a Glasgow comicbook store to promote the late LES DANIELS' hefty new volume, MARVEL - FIVE FABULOUS DECADES Of The WORLD'S GREATEST COMICS.  Why Stan and not Les, you may wonder.  Simply put, Stan was a bigger draw than Les - and he had written the intro, so his presence wasn't entirely without merit.

Also in attendance that day were SPIDER-MAN, GRANT MORRISON, MARK MILLAR and myself, who assumed the role of unelected 'official' photographer, and snapped around a dozen photos of the event.  (Well, that's not quite true - obviously the pics of me and Stan together [and Spidey] were taken by someone else - but with my camera.)

So here's a whistle-stop tour of the palpitating photographs taken on the day.  It goes without saying, of course, that everyone was thrilled to meet Stan, and, great guy that he is, he gave every impression of being just as equally thrilled to meet the punters.  Wotta legend! 

Spidey hogs a little attention while Stan is distracted

Stan busies himself with signing books for the long queue of fans...

...then poses for a few photos with shop staff and select visitors 

Grant and Stan have appeared together at conventions
quite a few times since this picture was taken, I believe

"Come back when you're more famous!" jokes Stan with Mark

I suspect Spidey may have been a 'ringer' - he had an English accent

You can't quite see the fiver Stan's handing me to pose with him

Me and Stan - the best of pals.  "Who is this guy?" he's thinking

"Wish I'd brought a rubber stamp with my name on it!" thinks Stan

Sadly, I don't think these two wannabes ever amounted to much

Finally, here's a cheerful chappie with Stan, looking happy as Larry (Lieber, perhaps?) 

ATTENTION ALL CRIV-ITES - CRIVENS IN SHUTDOWN...

Salma can hardly hide her, er, disappointment.
(I nearly said 'nipple' - oops!)

A slight emergency (if that's not a contradiction in terms) has arisen which will require my full attention for the next few weeks.  Sadly, therefore, with the possible exception of the BABE Of The DAY feature and the odd YouTube link (if even those) , there will be no new posts for the foreseeable future.

Hopefully my regular readers won't abandon me, and will find something in my back catalogue (ooer, missus) to entertain them in the meantime.  It's also unlikely that I'll be able to respond to comments (if there are any) until I return to regular blogging, although I'll check in when I can and publish any in waiting.

See you all when I've attended to business.

MAKE MINE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL...

Copyright MARVEL COMICS.  Published by PANINI

I walked into WHS two days ago (September 30th) and saw the latest issue of The MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL (#4) sitting on the shelves.  Hard to believe that it was 42 years to the day since the very first issue of the weekly incarnation of this periodical went on sale in the U.K.  Cover-dated October 7th, 1972, it had actually appeared in the shops a week earlier, to give it a full seven days shelf life before the next issue came in.

So what delights does the currrent version contain to enthrall and entertain its readers?  You'll have to buy a copy to find out, because the only strip I read these days is DAREDEVIL, which is top-notch stuff.  Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that the other contents aren't likewise excellent, but they fail to call out to me in the same entrancing way that The MAN WITHOUT FEAR does.

Okay, I've done my Marvel duty by showing you what the mag looks like; it's now your turn as a dyed-in-the-wool Marvelite (assuming you are) to demonstrate your allegiance by running out and buying a copy.  Why are you still here?  MWOM awaits!

And here are four more Mighty Marvel Mags currently on sale.

THE HAWAIIAN WEDDING SONG - JIM REEVES...

Had a hard day at work?  Sore head, sore feet, sore back?  Don't worry - all your aches and pains are about to melt away as you relax and unwind to the smooth velvety voice of Gentleman JIM REEVES.  Surely his CDs should be available on the NHS?  Makes sense to me.