BABE Of The DAY - COTE DE PABLO...

COTE DE PABLO leans on the rails,

wondering where I've got to on our date to

the cinema.  I told her I was going to get her

a choc ice, then nipped out for a fish supper

for myself.  That was well-over three hours ago,

but it wasn't my fault as there was a really long

queue at the chip shop.  Do you think she'll

 be angry with me?  Women - huh!

CRIVEN'S CLASSIC COMIC COVERS: FANTASTIC #51...

Image copyright MARVEL COMICS

I recall lying on the living-room carpet scrutinising this cover back in 1968, and that's where I find myself in memory whenever I look at it today.  Many years later I acquired the original U.S. issue of JOURNEY Into MYSTERY (#119) it first adorned, but somehow that comic mag doesn't have quite the same nostalgic appeal as the one above, probably because this is the ish I associate with my childhood.

This was quite a momentous number of FANTASTIC, as it was the last one in which JOHNNY FUTURE appeared.  The very next week, TERRIFIC was merged into Fantastic, so this was also the last edition to feature the comic's name on its own.