ANOTHER (BOND) BABE Of The DAY - URSULA ANDRESS...

The first BOND Babe - and, to many,

the best - URSULA ANDRESS.  She's a

goddess, ain't 'She' ?  (Did you see what I

 did there, film fans?  Clever me!)

KLASSIC KIRBY KOMIC KOVERS: JIMMY OLSEN #145...

Image copyright DC COMICS

This cover is a bit of a rarity, in that it's one (the first, in fact) of only two instances (that I know of)) where MURPHY ANDERSON completely inked a page of JACK KIRBY's art.  (The second, inked long-after Jack had passed away, was published in an ish of The Jack Kirby Collector a few years ago.)  Oddly, the above cover's inks were credited to VINCE COLLETTA in the second of two volumes of collected JIMMY OLSEN tales back in 2004.  (Not an easy mistake to make, I would've thought.)  Although I'm a fan of Colletta-inked JK pages, I've got to admit that the above cover makes me wish Murphy had inked the complete run of Olsen books - and can you just imagine what he'd have done on Jack's pencils on MARVEL's FF?  Wow!

(There's perhaps a hint of Colletta in FLIPPA-DIPPA's face, so I wonder if he was involved in the page before Murphy at some stage.  It looks predominantly Anderson to my eyes though.) 

PART TWO OF HARRY HAMMERTOE...THE SOCCER SPOOK...

Copyright REBELLION

Another great British cartoonist of yesteryear was REG PARLETT, whose humorous style graced the pages of many a U.K. comic.  This strip is from the cover-dated September 26th 1972 issue of SCORCHER & SCORE.  I wasn't buying the comic at this time (although I'd bought early issues before the two titles merged into one), so this strip was new to me when I first saw it in a book I got a year or so back.  Reg was a cartoonist who managed to draw 'funny' - even when there was nothing particularly funny to draw.  Just looking at panels in which nothing much is happening makes me chortle.  Know what?  That's a gift, and Reg Parlett had it in spades.

KEN REID'S THE NERVS - PART THREE...

If you're a fan of KEN REID's art (and, let's face it - who isn't?)

then you'll love this latest instalment of The NERVS from SMASH!

& POW! #139, cover-dated September 28th 1968.  Revel in the rol-

lickin' and riotous representations of internal idiocy in one boy's body

and bonce, where lunacy and laughter abound.  Is anyone drawing

comic strips as well as this today?  I've yet to see them!

BABE Of The DAY - ANGIE HARMON...

With a pic like this, you don't need

words, man (but you get them anyway).

The stunning ANGIE HARMON.