The MILLS BROTHERS - UP A LAZY RIVER...

Like music?  Like good music?  Then you've come

to the right place!  Criv-ites & Criv-kids - I give you -

The MILLS BROTHERS!

TUFTY'S ROAD SAFETY ADS - REMEMBER THESE?

Here's a little slice of yesteryear for all those of a certain age.  It doesn't seem all that long ago that these were regular ads on British TV, but I was very likely still a teenager the last time I saw them.  (Not counting '100 best ads' type programmes, of course.)  Whatever happened to TUFTY, eh?  Was he replaced by an American grey squirrel called RUFTY, do you think?  (Silly.)

BABE Of The DAY - RAQUEL WELCH...

I liked the last pic of RAQUEL WELCH

so much, I thought we'd have another.  Any

complaints?  I thought not.

KLASSIC KOMIC KOVERS: The AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #700...

Image copyright MARVEL COMICS

At last!  It was what we'd all been waiting for!  STEVE DITKO's hitherto unpublished (at least on the front of a comicbook) cover for AMAZING FANTASY #15, finally appearing on what was touted as the last issue of The AMAZING SPIDER-MAN.  So why did STAN LEE reject Steve's cover and have JACK KIRBY redraw it - photostatting the speech balloons and lower caption on Ditko's version and transferring them over to Kirby's?

Could it be that it looked as if Spidey was going to swing into the wall of the building rather than past it?  Or was it because he was revealing his secret identity to more than just the guy under his arm?  (Who we can assume was too frightened to be listening anyway.  And besides, the cover scene was merely symbolic.)  Did Stan just not like the composition of Steve's design, or was it for some other, indefinable reason?  I guess we'll never know for sure, but it was good to see the original finally grace an actual Spidey mag.