2000 AD - July 1979.

July of 1979 was a time that will always be associated with records.

It was in that month that Sheffield's Sebastian Coe broke the world mile record for the first time. He then went on to break another two world records in the space of just forty one days. Not content with that, over the course of the next three years, he broke a total of eleven world records.

What kind of madness was this?

Obviously, as a man of the people, I was always on the side of plucky habitual runner-up Peter Elliott. Surely the living embodiment of South Yorkshire.

But if July 1979 was a good month for one kind of record, it was a terrible month for another.

The kind that was round and had a hole in the middle of it.

For it was the month in which the Sony Walkman was launched - and, like fools, Sony made it only able to play cassettes and not LPs. What brand of lunacy was this? What kind of maniac would want to walk around playing cassettes when they could be playing LPs as they strolled?

Not only that but, that month, Chicago saw the infamous Disco Demolition Night in which a crate of disco records was blown up in Comiskey Park as a protest against the music form's then-ubiquity.

Not that I cared. I'm sure I was too busy catching up with the adventures of the galaxy's greatest comic.

It would appear that 2000 AD had a new logo which I think coincided with an improvement in the comic's paper quality.

It would also appear that Prog 122 featured an amazing robot game. I wish I could claim it was so amazing that I can remember it to this day but I'm afraid I have no memory of it at all.

It's interesting to see Prog 123 advertising an article about The Spaceman and King Arthur. Is that the Jim Dale movie based on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court? Despite clips from it being a fixture in every edition of Disney Time I ever saw, I don't believe I've ever seen the movie, nor even encountered it in the schedules.