Sunday, 15 December 2019

FRYING TONIGHT - PONDERINGS ON WHAT MIGHT'VE BEEN...

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The house with the lit-up windows and dark door was mine I was in a local chip shop earlier tonight, waiting on a fish being freshly fr...
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ASTONISHING TALES #29 - MINE, MINE, MINE! (Updated)

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Copyright MARVEL COMICS A bove is the seller's photo of a comic I've just purchased on eBay for a very reasonable price.  It se...
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Saturday, 14 December 2019

The FOX MEETS The HOUND As The PAST BECOMES The PRESENT...

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H ere's an interesting (I hope) tale of how dreams can bridge the gulf between the past and the present, as experienced by myself s...

GIANT-SIZE DEFENDERS #3 FACSIMILE EDITION...

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Copyright MARVEL COMICS I received this facsimile edition of  GIANT-SIZE DEFENDERS #3  today, which is a comic I never had the origina...
Friday, 13 December 2019

I AM A NUMBER - AND ALSO A FREE MAN...

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I was probably the last person in my age group out of everyone I knew (and likely also everyone I didn't) to get a mobile 'ph...
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Thursday, 12 December 2019

MIGHTY MARVEL COLLECTORS' EDITIONS CHECKLIST - ON SALE NOW!

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DEADPOOL UNLEASHED #8 Copyright MARVEL COMICS .  Published by PANINI 76 pages of Marvel’s hottest hero!  Three great stories! ...
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BABE Of The DAY - NICHELLE NICHOLS...

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"K LINGONS on the starboard bow, Captain!  Should I increase our speed to warp factor seven and take the ENTERPRISE out of dang...
Wednesday, 11 December 2019

BATMAN HAND PUPPET FROM THE '60s...

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Copyright DC COMICS H ere's the way I remember it (today anyway).  I was in the playground of my second primary school and saw...
Monday, 9 December 2019

CRIVENS FINISHED? BURGER OFF!

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C rivens is back!  No doubt a few of my critics will think I was disconnected from the Internet for not paying the bill, but such is...
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Wednesday, 4 December 2019

TEMPORARILY (?) OUT OF BUSINESS...

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S orry to all commenters who I haven't replied to.  I switched Broadband providers and have been lost in Limbo.  I'm using my neig...
Monday, 2 December 2019

IT'S The TOM & SYLVESTER SHOW - And I'M NOT TALKING PUSSY CATS, MELVIN...

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Copyright REBELLION Y 'know, for many years I assumed that TURVILLE'S TOUCHSTONE (later renamed The SPELLBINDER)  was already a ...
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Friday, 29 November 2019

ODDBALL OATES...

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Copyright relevant owner I may previously have heard the name of ODDBALL OATES  from commenters on the blog, but I don't reme...
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TWO SHORT AT THE TABLE...

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I received a text message from a pal almost a week ago, telling me that someone we both knew had died.  He'd had cancer, but at ...
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Thursday, 28 November 2019

MIGHTY MARVEL COLLECTED EDITIONS CHECKLIST - ON SALE NOW!

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WOLVERINE AND DEADPOOL #7 Copyright MARVEL COMICS 76 pages of Marvel’s toughest heroes!  Three great stories! Logan disc...
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Wednesday, 27 November 2019

BABE Of The DAY - JEAN GRAY...

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Copyright MARVEL COMICS I recall buying X-MEN #49  (below) as a kid and being fascinated by the figure of JEAN GRAY aka  MARVEL GIRL  on...
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Tuesday, 26 November 2019

EXTRA! EXTRA! JANUS STARK ESCAPES FROM THE TREASURY VAULTS...

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Copyright REBELLION M y JANUS STARK book from REBELLION's TREASURY Of BRITISH COMICS arrived today and it's a very nice produ...

DAREDEVIL #181 FACSIMILE EDITION...

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Copyright MARVEL COMICS I 'll say one thing for MARVEL's Facsimile Editions - despite the shiny paper instead of newsprin...
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Monday, 25 November 2019

VALIANT JOINS VULCAN - IN A JOURNEY INTO OBLIVION...

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Copyright relevant owner Y ou'd have thought IPC's VULCAN would've been much more successful, emulating, as it did, a style...
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BABE Of The DAY - SYBIL DANNING...

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H ere's sexy and sophisticated SYBIL DANNING  to kick-start our pulses this morning, Crivvies.  Just one look at Sybil and I rem...

A LOAD OF OLD BULL...

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M y family lived in the house prior to the one in which I currently reside between November 1965 and June 1972 (when we flitted), bu...
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Sunday, 24 November 2019

CRIVEN'S CLASSIC COMIC COVERS: THE EAGLE HAS LANDED... WELL, MORE LIKE BEEN BROUGHT DOWN TO EARTH...

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Copyright relevant owner A bove is the cover of the first combined issue of LION & EAGLE , dated 3rd May 1969.  The week before had...

ONE For SORROW, TWO For JOY - THREE For A 'FULL' SET...

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Copyright relevant owner O ne thing I've noticed as I've grown older is that things that didn't particularly mean anything to...
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Saturday, 23 November 2019

PSST! WANNA BUY SOME DRUGS? THESE DC FACSIMILE EDITIONS ARE ADDICTIVE...

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Copyright DC COMICS T he latest DC Facsimile Edition arrived at Castel Crivens this morning, thus adding yet another classic title from...
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Friday, 22 November 2019

CRIVENS - WHERE THE ACTION IS...

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Copyright DC COMICS H ere's my other LOOT CRATE facsimile edition - ACTION COMICS #1 .  It's almost the same as the US P...
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