YET ANOTHER AMAZING FANTASY - THREE, IN FACT...

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Okay, so here's a question for you Crivs - exactly how many issues were there of AMAZING FANTASY?  Including, of course, the issues originally called AMAZING ADVENTURES and AMAZING ADULT FANTASY.  Fifteen, right?  Wrong!  Eighteen, in fact.  That's because, back in the mid-'90s, MARVEL published another three issue continuing the numbering from what had once been the final AF featuring SPIDER-MAN.  What you're looking at here is Volume 1, Numbers 16, 17 & 18, thirty-two years after the fact.  These adventures are set between AF #15 and ASM #1, and your collection isn't complete without them.  Straight on to eBay with you.

And below is the most famous issue in the series.

BABE Of The DAY - KATE WINSLET (AGAIN)...

Am I imagining it, or does KATE

WINSLET more than slightly resemble

MADONNA when she was a little younger?

Regardless, she's a pure babe, so here's a

 pic of her for you lads to drool over.

HE'LL HAVE TO GO - OR, IN GLASGOW PARLANCE, "GET HIM TAE FECK!" (NO, I DON'T MEAN JIM.)

Here's JIM REEVES lip-syncing to his biggest hit, HE'LL

HAVE TO GO.  It was unusual for Jim not to sing 'live', when he

could, so the reason for the lip-syncing is a bit of a mystery.  Maybe a

guest spot on a show with not enough space for his backing band?

Anyone know?  (Anyone care?)  Still a brilliant song though.

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD - FF #306...

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Recently, I posted a gallery of some FANTASTIC FOUR covers - #s 297 -312, to be precise.  However, there was one ish missing from my collection - #306 - whose image I had to borrow from eBay to fill the gap.  I don't know why that particular number had eluded me back in 1987, and although I'd always intended  to track it down, I somehow just never got 'round to it.  Funny how a whopping 28 years can slip by without one noticing, eh?

However, the long wait is over.  I bought one a few days back and it arrived today, so I'm an ecstatically happy chappie.  Here it is, along with its splash page to celebrate the momentous occasion.  I was only half the age I am now when I should have bought this ish, and I was living in a different house in another neighbourhood - in a whole different century, in fact - but fate has finally rectified the oversight and united us at last.  (Well, fate, eBay, and two-odd quid, to be precise.)  Praise be to the Internet.

Okay, frantic ones - feast your eyes on these two images featuring the FF's fabulous foray into the fantastic.  It's what comics (and blogs devoted to them) were invented for!

PART SIXTEEN Of COMIC COVERS 'SNAP'!

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In case you didn't know, The MIGHTY THOR #126 was the first ish not to bear the JOURNEY Into MYSTERY masthead which had graced its cover for the previous 125 issues.  Not that it matters much, because it's really the art we're here to look at today, not the name of the mag.  So look to your heart's content, and see if you can spot what those clever MARVEL chappies have done with the cover of #458.  The clue is in the name of this blog post, if that's any help to you.

Any preferences, frantic ones?  Which and why?

BABE Of The DAY - KATE UPTON (AGAIN)...

You're on the beach and you suddenly

collapse from the heat.  As you slowly come

round, you see the beautiful KATE UPTON

bending over you, about to administer the kiss

of life.  So what would you do?  It's obvious,
isn't it?  You'd faint again from the shock

of disbelief, is what you'd do.