BABE Of The DAY - ABI TITMUS...

ABI TITMUS looks down at me on

the floor after giving me a good whacking

with that there cane of hers.  We're just taking

a rest for a moment or two - she'll be resuming

her physical exertions in five minutes.  (And to

think that there are some people pay for this

 sort of 'exercise'  Me?  Don't be silly.)

BARRY SMITH CONAN The BARBARIAN SPLASH PAGE GALLERY...

Copyright MARVEL COMICS and CPI

Regular (sort of) reader MOONMANDO enjoyed seeing the splash page from CONAN The BARBARIAN #6 in a recent post, so I thought I'd make him happy by showing the splash pages from the first dozen issues.  Smith had pretty much abandoned his attempts at imitating JACK KIRBY's style by this time and, boy, what an improvement that turned out to be!

Any memories associated with these images?  Got a  favourite?  You know where the comment section is.

Conan's torso isn't quite right here, and his legs look as if they're growing
straight from where his nether-regions should be - but aren't

PART TWELVE Of The CRUNCH COVER GALLERY...

Images copyright D.C. THOMSON & Co., Ltd

I'd not long turned 21 when this crop of The CRUNCH comics went on sale back in 1979.  It only seems like yesterday to me, not the 36 and a half years that it actually is.  As I've said before, I felt that DCT were trying to emulate the style of IPC's 2000 A.D. with this weekly periodical, but it was destined for a far shorter lifespan than its esteemed rival, which is still being published today, nearly 40 years after it first came out.

The final five covers coming soon, comics fans.