"KNOW WHAT TOMORROW IS, DUCKY?"

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The above strip, from The PENGUIN BOOK Of COMICS, is the very first The WIZARD Of ID strip I ever saw, back in the early 1970s.  It gave me such a chuckle that I later bought a couple of paperback collections of the Wiz's newspaper strips, and very funny they were too.  I'd highly recommend them to all you Criv-ites.  (Below is a version I coloured myself.)

JOHN BYRNE'S FANTASTIC FOUR COVER GALLERY - PART THREE...

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Hard to believe that, with this post, we're almost halfway through JOHN BYRNE's run on The FANTASTIC FOUR, one of the 'must read' MARVEL mags of the 1980s.  I must confess to enjoying PAUL RYAN's art on the FF when he eventually assumed the artistic duties, but I was never as impressed with the stories as I'd been with some of Byrne's tales.  I'd have loved to see JB continue scripting the series and Paul Ryan drawing it - that would've really been something, don't you think?

Anyway, enjoy the covers here and be sure to rejoin us for another ten in an upcoming post.

This one's another mag I bought before dropping in on Glasgow's Blue Lagoon for a Fish
& Chips tea.  Unfortunately, those particular premises are now gone, though others yet
remain in the city centre

This, I believe, was the first ish of the FF I bought after moving to a new house in 1983.
What's more, I got it from the shop I used to buy TV Century 21 on my way to school when
I was 6.  On the way home with this mag, I stopped in a park and sat on a huge stone to read
it, a stone that had been there at least since I was around two years old.  Maybe around 10 or
so years after stopping to read this ish, the stone was gone - and with it, yet another part of
my cherished childhood, alas