tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post382169009338613842..comments2024-03-28T18:40:59.101+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-9253478740857615072018-12-07T22:57:29.577+00:002018-12-07T22:57:29.577+00:00And don't forget Tiny Tim's Ditko Through ...And don't forget Tiny Tim's Ditko Through The Tulips.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-71694031816535389002018-12-07T22:53:57.311+00:002018-12-07T22:53:57.311+00:00I've heard OF the McCartney song- I think Stan...I've heard OF the McCartney song- I think Stan himself mentioned it in a Bullpen Bulletins page once- but never actually heard the song itself! <br /><br />I'm now starting to dream up other songs that could mention comic creators- You Can Call Me Al Williamson, maybe? Jumping Jack Kirby Flash? Or how about the Elvis song, Marie Severin's The Name of His Latest Flame? I'll stop now. <br />Dave Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10562199843047738071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-64118544424691443932018-12-07T22:26:03.479+00:002018-12-07T22:26:03.479+00:00I've got a box of badges somewhere, DS, compri...I've got a box of badges somewhere, DS, comprised mostly of ones that came free with UK comics, but funnily enough I'd never wear a badge for some reason. As for that song, I'd be surprised if there's another that mentions Stan & Jack. Remember Paul McCartney's song, Magneto & Titanium Man? I used to have a friend who was into comics - more DC than Marvel - and I remember him telling me that the Crimson Dynamo in the song's lyrics was the Flash. I politely pointed out that, no, it was the Crimson Dynamo, who was a Marvel character. He didn't like being wrong and sulkily remarked "Huh, you're more into Marvel than I am anyway!" He tended to look down on everyone, so the fact that I knew more about something than he did stuck in his craw. Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-19694121207977039482018-12-07T20:31:23.669+00:002018-12-07T20:31:23.669+00:00I had a box of badges when I was young that I'...I had a box of badges when I was young that I've no idea what happened to, and I'd love to be able to see again. Strangely, a lot of them were alcohol related, as most of them were promo items given to me by a relative who worked in a pub.<br /><br />There was a Whyte and Mackay whiskey badge, a Schweppes one (which said Buy Me A Drink And Prove You're Not A Rotter), a prismatic yellow Superman badge, which I think showed Supes flexing his chest and bursting out of some chains, one with the slogan We Are The People on it (which might give people an idea of what football team I supported) and a Secret Lemonade Drinker one too. <br /><br />I don't think I ever wore any, and I couldn't tell you how many times I cut my fingers on the pins while rummaging through the box, but I'd love to have those back again, especially the Superman one, which I think I bought myself.<br /><br />Incidentally, Kid, I was listening to some of the more obscure parts of my music collection recently, and a lyric jumped out at me from a song called La Di La, a solo song from the late 70s by Ian McLagan, the keyboard player out of the Faces. The lyric was 'I read every Lee and Kirby comic book, but it's fantasy, and now that Superman has made a movie, no-one reads his magazine'.<br /><br />Can't be too many songs which mention Stan the Man and Jolly Jack!Dave Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10562199843047738071noreply@blogger.com