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Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** L et us tarry not... ...and leap straight into the action. I detect the tale in which the Fantastic Four find themselves up against the Maggia - and having more trouble with them than you'd expect. I shall declare that the whole idea of those villains turning up in the FF's book seems…
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** Image by Tumisu from Pixabay A wise woman once sang, "Surprise surprise. The unexpected hits you between the eyes." But what could possibly surprise a man of my sagacity? There's only one thing. And that's the feature in which it is not I but you The Reader who gets to decide just what is…
ThanKs to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for Their Sponsorship of This Post, via The Magic of Patreon . *** W ho remembers Glenn Medeiros? I certainly do. And July 1988 was doing its best to make sure it stayed that way, as he spent almost the entire month at Number One on the UK singles chart, thanks to his smash hit Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You , before being dislodged by Yazz and…
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** I t seems like I can't stop talking about Mars, of late. And that may be because we've reached the 50th anniversary of the week in which Viking 2 entered orbit around the Red Planet. Back on Earth, the Great Clock of Westminster - often erroneously referred to as Big Ben - suffered…
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** W e all love a good film. And some of us love a bad film. But how many August 1986 releases fit into either of those categories? Here's where we find out. That month oversaw the unleashing of such joys as Flight of the Navigator, Friday the 13th Part VI, Howard the Duck, She's Gotta Have…
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** H ere we go. There's mixed news for our battling barbarian, this month. The possibly bad news is that the demon inhabiting the body of Tetra is out to win the heart of our hero. The good - presumably - is that Keiv is restored to his human form, after having been in monstrous guise since…
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** H as there ever been life on Mars? This week in 1976 may have given people reason to ponder, as it was the week in which NASA released its now infamous Face on Mars photo, taken during the Viking 1 mission. Rather more terrestrially, Trinidad and Tobago became a republic with President…
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** C inema! What a magnificent art form it is! And just how magnificent was it in August 1976? It was this magnificent! The month saw the release of such gems as Obsession, The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West, The Return of a Man Called Horse, The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, The Gumball…
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** L et's have some more nostalgia. It's a, "Spectacular 150th anniversary special!" It's amazing to think it means that, with this issue, the Avengers had been around for a hundred and fifty years. At the time, it must have seemed like barely more than ten. It's just a shame the cover tells…
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** T his week in 1976 gave the world a stark warning of the dangers of warm, undisturbed water in a large building when delegates attending an American Legion convention at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia began falling ill with a form of pneumonia. This would come to be…
