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| Copyright REBELLION |
Which Criv's heart doesn't beat a little faster (if you're of a certain age) at the sight of these delightful SMASH! Annual covers from back in the 20th century? It's scary to think that the first of them comes from nearly 50 years ago, and the last of them a mere 9 years later. To me, it doesn't seem anywhere near as long as that, and if you owned these books when you were a kid, I'm sure it's the same for you as well.
Just like the WHAM! Annuals, when first published, I never had any of the ODHAMS Smash! Annuals either, although I did buy the revamped IPC 1971 & '72 tomes at the time, and a friend gave me the '74 book back in '82. I've long-since acquired a complete set of all the Annuals for Wham! and Smash! - and also POW! and FANTASTIC, too. (Lucky ol' me, eh?) Not being the selfish type, I've decided to share the covers with you all on this here blog thing of mine.
The Annual for '68 had a different back cover, so I've included it so that you can read the comic strip continued from the front. I've included the soft-covered Smash Fun Book for 1971 (issued in '70), which was perhaps intended as a 'transitional' stage between the old and the new, so that readers who preferred the Odhams style could have one last bite of the cake at the same time lovers of the 'new direction' were being catered for in the Annual department.
I've shown these covers before of course, but not everyone can be bothered trawling through the archives to see what they've missed, so I hope I'll be forgiven for repeating myself. Next time around, it'll be a combined gallery of Pow! and Fantastic Annual covers! So keep these palpitating peepers of yours peeled in preparation!
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| This softcover book was in the style of the previous Annuals |
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| The final Annual in the series was a softcover book |
So pleased you're doing ALL the "Power" annuals, but I'm hoping to see if you show all 5 x #1's in a future gallery?
ReplyDeleteM'mm, I'm sure I answered your comment, JP, yet here it is on its own. Perhaps you said the same thing on two different posts, which has confused me?
ReplyDeleteYou HAD answered it, Kid, - but on another post. I knew which comment you were referring to, so no worries!
DeleteI CRINGE at some of the mistakes ( and typos ) I have printed, but what the heck?!
I noticed that you'd made the same comment elsewhere after I'd typed the above, JP, so - as you say - no worries.
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