CRIVENS DOES IT AGAIN - ANOTHER COMPLETE CHRISTMAS ISSUE Of WHAM! (#132, 1966)...

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CRIVENS! - the finest comics blog that money can buy - which is doubtless why it's free. (There's a hint of a joke in there somewhere.)  Anyway, here we are again with a complete issue of WHAM! (#132 to be precise) for your nostalgic perusal, as we pull back the curtains of time for a look at what Christmas comics were like 56 years ago.  If I remember correctly, Wham! had started reprinting MARVEL's The FANTASTIC FOUR in August of that year, and I'd started buying the comic not long after, having first read the FF's origin when it had been simultaneously published in SMASH!  Wham soon became my favourite comic for a while, because I was in love with The INVISIBLE GIRL, SUSAN STORM.  (I don't know what I saw in her - guffaw!)

Anyway, you don't visit this blog to read what I write (you undiscerning lot), so let's jump straight into the pretty piccies.  As always, your comments are welcome.  

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EAGLE - THE FIRST CHRISTMAS ISSUE...

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Tell you what - let's use the Crivens' time machine to go back to December 1950, a whopping 67 years ago.  Hands up if you were around back then - no?  I see - not admitting to being that old, eh?  Anyway, here's the DAN DARE instalment from what was regarded as the very first Christmas issue of the famous EAGLE comic, which lasted an amazing 19 years before being merged into LION.  If I remember correctly, Eagle was only around 9 issues short of its 1000th issue, so it's a shame that the publishers didn't allow the paper to celebrate that milestone number.  Sort of reminds me of WHIZZER & CHIPS, which lasted one issue past its 21st birthday, unheralded, before being merged into BUSTER.  Perhaps it was considered pointless celebrating a longevity which was coming to an end, but I think it would've been nice to mark the occasion.

Anyway, enjoy Dan Dare's first Christmas from 67 years ago, in the future of the past.  (Oh, profound or what?)