KLASSIC KOMIC KOVERS - ACTION COMICS #1...

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Here's the one that started it all - ACTION COMICS #1. (1938.)  SIEGEL & SHUSTER's sensational SUPERMAN for the very first time!  The superhero industry is born!

PART EIGHT Of The COMPLETE FANTASTIC FOUR COVER & IMAGE GALLERY...

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Here we are again with three more issues of The COMPLETE FANTASTIC FOUR for you to paste your palpitating peepers on.  One of the better MARVEL U.K. weeklies of the '70s, it had a short lifespan, alas, but is yet fondly recalled by readers who purchased it at the time.  Were you one of them?

So let's return to yesteryear and live again those heady days of our youth.  Don't worry if you weren't around at the time - you're invited too.  Ready?  Then fasten your seatbelts and let's go!

     

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

The lovely CATERINA MURINO - a

lady with a licence to thrill!  (Yeah!)

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE TRAILER...

This trailer's a bit embarrassing to be honest.  It goes overboard in drawing attention to the fact that it's a 'different' BOND, as if the viewers are too thick to notice for themselves.  They'd have been better not making an issue of it and letting GEORGE LAZENBY settle into the role as the movie unfolded, instead of trying to shoehorn him into it in advance.

The trouble was, aside from George having no real acting experience to speak of, he was too much in the SEAN CONNERY mould, while at the same time not being quite enough like Sean to carry it off, paradoxical as that may sound.  George reprised his role as 007 in the TV movie The MAN From U.N.C.L.E. - The 15 YEARS LATER AFFAIR in the early '80s.

Had he been able to lose the Australian accent, and with a little more experience, I think George may have turned out to be quite a decent Bond.  Alas, we shall never know for sure.