MINICHAMPS ASTON MARTIN D.B.5...

Fans of JAMES BOND's ASTON MARTIN D.B.5 are sure to love this 1:43 scale working model by MINICHAMPS, of which I have two - lucky me.  (No, I'm not holding a competition to give one away - buy your own.)  Isn't it great?  I have a couple of larger (about a foot long) models of the car still to show you, which you'll get to see when I dig them out of whichever boxes they're in.  If I ever win the Lottery, I'm going to buy a real version of this car - then pay SALMA HAYEK to drive me around in it.  Sounds good to me.  (With my luck though, first thing she'd probably do is use the ejector seat to get rid of me.)

THERE WERE THESE FOUR MONSTERS, SITTING ON A WALL: ACTION FIGURE BONANZA - PART ONE...

I've been going through some boxes in my loft recently and discovered a few of my collection of action figures - of which I must have at least 70 or so.  I've snapped a couple of photos of some of them as they come out of the box, just to give you a quick look.  Don't worry about JOHN STEED in the pic below - I do have EMMA PEEL also, so he's not on his own.  (Though I think he's taken a fancy to the lass on his left.)  More as I find them, Criv-ite chums.

(Take a look at ROGER below - looks as if he's about to blow SEAN's brains out.)

FABULOUS FANTASTIC FLASHBACK - 40TH ANNIVERSARY Of The COMPLETE FANTASTIC FOUR #1...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

In a mere 4 days time, it'll be 40 years since the very first issue of MARVEL UK's then-latest weekly landed on the counters of newsagents' shops across Britain.  It immediately became my favourite comic as the good ol' FF had long been my preferred group of Marvel superheroes, but my joy was short-lived as the mag lasted for only 37 issues.  However, that gave me a chance to re-collect the 'classic' adventures of the Cosmic Quartet as I hadn't kept my early issues of The MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL in which they'd appeared in 1972.

Anyway, here's a few pages to give you a taste of the mag and kick-start some memories for you if you were a reader of this pulsating paper periodical back in the day.  Any reminiscences you'd like to share?  Then you know where the comments section is, frantic ones.  40 years, eh?  Where did the time go?