JIM'S JUST WALKING IN THE RAIN...

Hey, it was raining today where I live (still is), so

here's JIM REEVES to sing you a song about it.

AGAIN - GRIMLY FEENDISH...

No, your memory isn't deceiving you, you have seen this strip

somewhere before.  First time would probably have been back in

1966, and the last time was more recent than that - on this very blog

earlier today, in fact.  I accidentally posted it as the first GRIMLY

FEENDISH strip from SMASH! #1, when, in fact, it's from #11 of

that esteemed periodical.  It was only up for a short time before I

spotted my error and replaced it with the correct page, but it's

unfair to hold  it back any longer.  So here it is again, you

lucky peeps.  I spoil you, I really do!

PART TWO Of POT-LUCK MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL COVER GALLERY... (Updated)

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

Welcome back to yet another cover-fest of mid-'70s MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL issues, scanned from my own personal collection.  These are the actual comics I purchased back in the day*, and they're pretty much in the same condition as when I first bought them.  It must be admitted that some of the covers produced specifically for we Brits weren't quite of the same standard as the original U.S. ones used on alternate weekly issues, but they did the job, I suppose.

Got a favourite?  Then don't wait for me to twist your arm - jump over to the comments section and tell us all about it!

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(*Update: Since first publishing this post, I've added a few replacements for issues I once owned when first released, but hadn't kept for some unknown reason.)

In case you're wondering, the blank space in the top left-hand corner of this back cover is one of my
personal address labels with the details digitally blanked out.  After all, I ain't looking for a pen-pal

The HULK story presented in this ish had previously appeared in an earlier issue of MWOM, but
with the SILVER SURFER's appearance edited out.  Which sort of made it a bit of a non-story

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY...

Remember, it's JIM REEVES week on Crivens!, so here's the great man crooning about the one that got away.  Quick, while your wife's out at the Bingo, who was the love of your life that managed to resist your charms and who you still think of to this day?  All confessions will be treated in the strictest confidence.  (And nobody reads this blog anyway.)

(BOND) BABE Of The DAY - CATERINA MURINO...

Earlier, I asked the lovely CATERINA

MURINO how she was doing these days.

"I'm not feeling myself," she replied.  You

wouldn't know from this pic, eh?  It looks

as if that's exactly what she's doing.

GRIMLY FEENDISH FROM SMASH! #1...

Copyright REBELLION

LEO BAXENDALE's GRIMLY FEENDISH, just like KEN REID's FRANKIE STEIN, appeared for the first time in WHAM! #4 in 1964.  Unlike big Frankie though, who had the luxury of his own strip, Grimly's debut was in EAGLE-EYE, JUNIOR SPY;  he had to wait until SMASH! #1 in 1966 before he was finally awarded a strip of his own, which was in colour on the back page.

And here it is just for you, you lucky Criv-ites!

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME TRAILER...

If I remember correctly, the first four BOND films were released about a year apart, the next five had an interval of around two years between them, and the 10th in the series came out three years after the previous one.  It had also managed to lose one of the producers, in that HARRY SALTZMAN's name was missing from the credits, having sold his share in the franchise due to financial difficulties he'd found himself in.

So The SPY Who LOVED ME bore only the name of ALBERT R. BROCCOLI as the movie's sole producer, which trumpeted itself as the biggest and best Bond of them all.  I loved the MARVIN HAMLISCH theme song, and still have the actual 45 single record and LP soundtrack that I bought way back in 1977.  So what say we watch the trailer and return to the sizzlin' '70s together?  I'm game if you are!

POT-LUCK MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL COVER GALLERY - PART ONE... (Updated)

Copyright MARVEL COMICS

This post inaugurates a new approach to the scans you'll see on this blog in future.  Hitherto, I scanned the majority of images at 150%, but I've decided it takes too long and probably also far too much space in my files and folders, so from now on (unless it's a really small image that needs enlarged), I'm going to be scanning most comic images at 100%.  If you're desperate to see it larger, your computer will have a zoom option which you can use to facilitate your desire.  

Right, having dealt with that, my fading memory is now such that I'm sometimes uncertain when it comes to posts I've intended doing for some time, whether I've already done them or not.  If a cursory check fails to find one on the blog, then I assume I've not yet gotten around to it, and go ahead and do it.  This of course leads to the possibility that I might repeat material (aside from the 'Kid Klassics' posts, which are deliberate), and you end up seeing a pile of images that you've already seen before.

When it comes to the current crop of pictures, I know I've featured a few of them in previous posts, but this should be the first time they've all appeared together in one single post.  If not, I'm sure you'll soon let me know.  Looking at the first five* eight covers on display, it's hard for me to grasp that I was yet a schoolboy when these comics first came out and, though they're not the actual copies I bought back in the day, I've had these replacements for far longer than I ever had the originals.

The remaining four cover scans are from my original comics, which I've owned ever since 1975 when I was still a teenager.  Again, it's difficult to accept that a whopping 40 years have passed since I first picked them up (and paid for them, naturally) in newsagents' shops which now no longer exist.  How time flies, eh?  Anyway, if you have any personal reminiscences associated with these Marvel-lous mags, feel free to share!

*Update: I've now acquired #67 (on 21-8-'23), #68 & #69 (on 17-11-'23) and decided to retroactively include them in the post.

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I've just checked, and the size that images display at when clicked on doesn't seem to be affected by the scale at which I scan them.  So everyone's a winner!  Hooray!

 

I recall jumping into a block of flats in the old village quarter of my town, so
that I could sit on the staircase and read this.  I'm a bit more patient now

The mighty JIM STARLIN strikes again

A lovely TRIMPE & SEVERIN cover

Only 50p, eh?  Must be worth a good few pounds by now

JOHN BUSCEMA's brother, SAL, shows he's no slouch in the art department
either.  Didn't always have an inker that played to his strengths though 

Another TRIMPE & SEVERIN triumph