RECOMMENDED READING: The MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL #28...

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The MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL is a comic mag that's been around for a large slice of my life.  First issued (as a weekly) near the end of 1972, after seven years it was renamed (twice), becoming a monthly with its third incarnation.  In 1983 it returned as a monthly with its original title, but it was short-lived, alas.  We'd moved to a new house after the first '83 issue, then returned to our former abode just over four years later.  In 2003, the mag was relaunched, meaning it's been published in one form or another since I was 14, in all three houses I've lived in since then.  (One counts as two, remember.)

I hope I never have to live anywhere else, but if fate dictates that it has to be so, I trust MWOM will still be around to provide a reassuring bit of continuity, even to the end of my days.  As I'm planning to clock up another couple of hundred years (at least), the periodical may well be available for a long, long time.

Buy the latest issue today, and contribute to both my longevity and also The Mighty World Of Marvel's!

BABE Of The DAY - GILLIAN DUXBURY...

She's leaning on a lamppost at

the corner of the street, watching all

the boys go by - 'til she sees me that is.

GILLIAN DUXBURY sure knows a

real man when she sees one, and no

mistake.  (She'll do for me!)

TOPPS 1966 BATMAN CARDS - PART NINE...

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And now, the final half-dozen BATMAN cards in the first series of 55 released in 1966 by TOPPS.  There were three sets altogether and perhaps, in the fullness of time, I'll get around to showing you the other two.  For the meantime though, that's your lot, Bat-fans.  For details of artists, etc., check back on previous posts.  Any observations you'd like to make, then the comments section awaits.

  

RECOMMENDED READING: MACHINE MAN: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION...

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Here's the latest COMPLETE COLLECTION volume from MIGHTY MARVEL, folks - MACHINE MAN!  Not exactly JACK KIRBY and STEVE DITKO at their artistic best, but solid entertainment from the sizzlin' '70s, when people of my age group were younger, more innocent, and had more time ahead than behind them - no longer the case, alas.  But let's not end on a sombre note.  Relive the happy days of your youth by buying this bombastic book today.  Your local comics shop awaits your visit.