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If you're anything like me, you'll associate certain comics with where you lived at the time you bought them. However, sometimes I'll associate the title of a comic series with an area, even more than what it perhaps deserves if I look at things proportionately. As an example of what I mean, take TV Century 21, the first 42 or 43 issues of which remind me of the house and neighbourhood I was then living, even though the remaining 199 or 200 issues were published when I lived elsewhere. However, mention the comic's name to me and I immediately think of the previous house and environs before their successors.
Same with TV Action. When it was called Countdown (for its first 58 issues), I only started buying it when it began reprinting Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet strips from TV21. With issue 59, it became TV Action, and I acquired the first 12 issues (59-70) under its new (main) name while I was living in one house, and the remaining 62 issues (it ceased publication with #132) while living in another. Actually, I can't swear I bought every one of those 62 numbers as I may've jumped ship when The Mighty World Of Marvel appeared on the scene, but those first 12 issues are the ones that most resonate with me.
Surely I should associate either of those two weeklies with the areas in which a higher number of issues were published than a smaller amount, not the other way around? Or am I overthinking things again? Never mind, the preceding preamble is merely a long-winded excuse for me to feature that dozen-ish run in a mini cover gallery. Hope you enjoy it.
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H'm, think I lost you all with the personal reminiscence bit, so let's start again. Hey, Crivs - here's a TV Action cover gallery... feel free to comment.
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| I specifically remember reading this particular issue in my bedroom one day, a mere four days before flitting to another house, so it would've spent more time in my new house than my old one. And yet, in the caverns of memory, it remains indelibly associated with the bedroom of my former domicile |
21 comments:
Clearly Dr Who was the main attraction!
Really? What gives you that idea, CJ?
Later, the covers featured different strips in a sort of rotating order, but the Doc was featured prominently on the covers at the start.
I think you're more likely to remember the first issues of a new title or a change of title because it's, well, new. It's fresh, it's exciting, you think about it more and can't wait for the next issue. As weeks, months and years go by, it becomes the norm so those issues don't stand out so much.
That's a good likeness for Pertwee, much better than TV Comic. This one's bloody awful.
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I'd agree with that in the main, M, and have commented on it before, but 12 issues is hardly a long run, and you'd think the sheer number of subsequent issues would've made a fair-sized impression on the memory which would at least equal the dozen comics. Especially as I was in a new house and that surely would've made its own mark in my memory with which I would equate the comics? (Why is everything so much more complicated the older one gets?) And none of TV Comic's likenesses of the Doctor were very accurate.
I associate both Countdown and TV ACTION/COUNTDOWN with the home in London I grew up in. I also remember buying the first issue of Countdown near the studio of my first full time job it being the first item I ever purchased something with that new fangled decimal currency, 5p why that was a whole shilling! It was also the first time I could bare to read a Dr. Who comic as Pertwee was the first Doctor whose looks could be drawn successfully.
Doctor Who moved back to TV Comic the week after TV Action #132 came out and the comic was retitled TV Comic Plus TV Action with #1133, T47. I plan on buying that issue to see if Doctor Who continued with new strips, or were merely reprints from earlier years with old Doctors redrawn as John Pertwee. I'll keep you all posted. I know in later years, Pertwee strips were 'doctored' (good one, Gordie) to make the Doc look like Tom Baker. Of course, once Marvel UK acquired the rights, Doctor Who vanished from TV Comic again, which itself disappeared just over four-and-a-half years later.
I shudder to think, what todays comic strip of the new out, and proud Dr Who ('in name only!') would be like? Probably a bit like gay porn, I could imagine.....`How things have gone down hill!'
I'll never know 'cos I don't buy Doctor Who Monthly. I would hope writers ignore the current Doc's sexuality and just focus on action and adventure, but you never can tell these days.
That's a rather mean comment from Anonymous As Well - the current Doctor's "sexuality" is barely even mentioned on the show which DOES focus on action and adventure and any comic strip would do the same!
I don't think I'd characterise it as 'mean', CJ, AAW is only expressing his fears about what the show (and perhaps the comic strip) has or might become. After all, remember the episode where the Doc played 'tonsil hockey' with another guy in a needlessly gratuitous manner. That was the last episode I watched of Doctor Gay - er, I mean Who.
The most recent episode of Dr Who that I watched was the Christmas one which focused completely on action/adventure with no mention whatsoever of the Doctor being "gay" but his "sexuality" seems to be the No.1 issue for some people.
So if they don't mention it, you're saying it isn't or shouldn't be an issue, CJ? The BBC have already made it an issue by showing him snogging the face off another guy and the Doc is as camp as a row of tents. I assume they don't mention he's black, either, but that doesn't mean he isn't black. (Not that there's anything wrong with being black, of course, but making him gay is an issue whether they now mention it or not. If it wasn't an issue they wouldn't have done it.)
I've learned that issue #1133 of TV Comic continued with the new better-drawn strips, though I can't yet say who the artist was. May have been the regular one from TV Action. (Can't see his name on the cropped eBay image.)
Action and Adventure, that's a bit of a stretch? Anyway, Dr Who was always about science fiction, not shoehorned political correctness, and travelling through time looking for the next sexual interaction. Call me old fashioned, but after re-watching the classic family friendly Pertwee Dr Who, I feel so very bemused that there's persons, who actually enjoy the big budget, poorly scripted and acted garbage, that is the modern F knows Who? And before it's suggested, I'm not anti-gay, just anti-Character destruction. Apologies Kid, I may have offended again?
Haven't offended me, AAW, and IF you've offended CJ, I'm sure he'll soon let us know. He's big and ugly enough to stick up for himself, that right, CJ?
I'm not offended either and I too have watched the Pertwee/Tom Baker era episodes on BBC iPlayer so I have a huge fondness for them! Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker are still my two favourite Doctors.
Or should that be 'my favourite Doctor', CJ, seeing as how they're both playing the same character? Pedantic? Moi? (Yeah, yeah, I know what you meant.)
Remarkable likenesses of Jon Pertwee on all those covers, eh Kid? Do you know who the artist was? Mind you, he's looking a bit Frankie Howerd-ish with the bug eyes on the April 15 issue.
Oops, fell asleep listening to Jim Reeves there, so a delay in replying. Gerry Haylock is the artist. Funnily enough, that drawing/painting on #65 is not one I'm keen on either. Looks like a drag-artist.
YES! Danny LaRue! lol.
The very (wo)man!
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