PART TWO OF CLASSIC COMICS: COUNTDOWN #1...

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As promised, here's the second part of COUNTDOWN #1 for all you Crivs to drool over.  If you caught part one, you now have the complete issue of this collectors' item classic.  I could drone on and on, giving you some background to the comic, but why bother?  If you're interested, you can buy STEVE HOLLAND's new book, COUNTDOWN TO TV ACTION, which you can read more about by clicking here.  (Better be quick though - it's a limited edition.)

Feel free to share any memories of Countdown/TV Action you have if you bought the comic back in the day.  Which version did you prefer - the GERRY ANDERSON orientated one, or the revamped, wider-based TV adventure comic?  Let us all know.

BABE Of The DAY - LEE MERIWETHER...

When it comes to CATWOMAN,  I have to admit to nursing divided loyalties with regard to whom I prefer as the feline filly.  JULIE NEWMAR was magnificent in the role, but I've a soft spot in my heart for the equally impressive LEE MERIWETHER, who stepped into Miss Newmar's kitty-cossie for the 1966 BATMAN movie.  You can see my problem, Julie or Lee?  In a perfect world I could have both of them.  Hey, what am I talking about?  I do have both - and so do you!  For the moment though, you'll have to be content with just Lee.  The delectable Julie will be our babe at a later date.

MORE MIGHTY MOTH...

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I love MIGHTY MOTH.  Surely every right-thinking comics reader feels the same in regard to the diminutive lepidopteran, who appeared in the pages of TV COMIC for just over 25 years.  DICK MILLINGTON created, wrote and drew the strip (which appeared for the first time in issue #384, cover-dated June 14th 1959), and the formula was pretty much the same as ODHAMS' (and later IPC's) FRANKIE STEIN, in that 'dad' was always trying to rid himself of his unwanted 'house guest'.

Anyway, in my efforts to share my comic strip treasures with all you panting panelologists, here are another two Mighty Moth escapades from the TV Comic Annual for 1968, to give you a chuckle or three and lighten and brighten your day.