BIFF! IT'S SAM...

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Here's BIFF from WHAM!, masquerading under the name of SAM from THUNDER.  Drawn, I believe, by LEO BAXENDALE.  Not one of his best strips under either name, it has to be said, but still well worth a look.  Probably wouldn't be allowed today for being too violent.

CAN YOU SPOT THE CLUE WITH ZIP NOLAN...?

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I can't help but feel that with a name like ZIP NOLAN, he should've been a spaceman like DAN DARE.  Having said that though, I always enjoyed whatever tales I read of ol' Zip, and I'd buy a collected edition of them if someone was prepared to publish one.  Let's hope the copyright owners (whoever they are) are reading, eh?

Guess what?  This is from the 1971 LION & THUNDER Holiday Special.  Whaddya mean you knew?  (Sheesh! I must be getting more predictable with each passing day.)

ANOTHER BABE Of The DAY - SALMA HAYEK...

SALMA HAYEK has obviously heard

I'm a BERYL The PERIL fan, and is trying

to impress me by wearing a stripey top.  Wrong

colour, love, so try again!  (Treat 'em mean and

keep 'em keen is my motto, though I'm not

 sure it works, to be honest.)

MORE MOWSER...

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From the back page of the 1971 LION & THUNDER Holiday Special (and the interior of a 1960s issue of Lion weekly before that), comes the magnificent moggy, MOWSER the priceless puss.  REG PARLETT is the priceless cartoonist who had the knack of imbuing his drawings with a joyful humour that permeated every panel.   (Just look at Mowser's expression - priceless indeed!)  Reg was definitely one of the greats of British comics and they could do with him today, that's for sure.

BABE Of The DAY - TYRA BANKS...

But where?  TSB?  RSB?  The

HALIFAX?  LLOYDS?  We need

to know such things.  As you can see,

TYRA is topless - as in the top of her

head has been cut off in the photo.

(I wonder if that hurts?)

BY THUNDER! IT'S ADAM ETERNO...

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Amazing!  His name's ADAM ETERNO and he's immortal.  Lucky coincidence, eh?  Okay, so he did drink an alchemist's elixir, which sort of helps, but it's almost as if he was predestined to live up to his name.  Oh, I forgot - he's just a fictional character dreamt up by a writer, but even then, the thing with the name is pushing credibility a bit, eh?  Never mind, we'll just have to roll with it, I suppose.

He's also invulnerable - unless struck a fatal blow by a weapon made of solid gold.  You wouldn't think there'd be too many of them lying around, would you, but, hey - you'd be surprised.  And he's also a time traveller.  Crom, is there no end to the man's talents?  Anyway, that's enough preamble from me - let's now enjoy one of his adventures from the 1971 LION & THUNDER Holiday Special.