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| BATMAN images copyright DC COMICS |
Okay, so they were only together in my carrier bag yesterday, but having reeled you in with that devious deception, you may as well stick around and read the rest of the post. First up is TALES Of The BATMAN, featuring the stories of writer ALAN BRENNERT and illustrated by a host of artists. It's a slim volume, containing all of Alan's work for DC COMICS, and is available from all good comics shops and bookstores. Buy one today!
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| BEANO images copyright D.C. THOMSON & Co., Ltd |
Next up is BEANO Annual 2017, available, if you're lucky, from WH SMITH for only £1.99, depending on whether your local shop has any left, obviously. However, the branch I was in yesterday had around a dozen copies, so yours may be similarly stocked. I decided to purchase it because it's the first Annual with the new masthead (without the article), so it's sort of a collectors' item. Buy one if you can.
H'mm, just noticed that the cover design seems to be based on MARVEL's GIANT SUPERHERO HOLIDAY GRAB-BAG from 1974.
6 comments:
Well spotted on the cover inspiration.
And well spotted in spotting that it was well spotted, Baab.
Wow, I've been aware of that Holiday Grab Bag cover for as long as I've been reading Marvel comics (I must have seen it advertised in the early issues of POTA even before I actually knew who the characters on the cover were) but I've never seen the back cover before !! And if the 2017 Beano annual is such a collector's item, Kid, then why did you wait so long to buy it ? It's been on sale in my local Tesco since October.
You've never seen the back cover before, CJ? Your memory is malfunctioning, because I showed it in Favourite Comics Of The Past Part 33 - you even left several comments. And I didn't say that the Beano Annual 2017 is 'such' a collectors' item, I said it was 'sort of' - which at £1.99 is worth buying, but I wouldn't pay £7.99 for it.
Oops...obviously my mind is going - well, it's to be expected at my advanced age. And do you prefer the Beano masthead with or without the "The" ? I prefer with.
I prefer it as it was, CJ, the change seems pointless - change for change's sake.
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