2000 AD - January 1981.

I would say that January 1981 was a great month for John Lennon.

Except that, obviously, it clearly wasn't.

However, thanks to his death, he did find himself dominating the British singles chart. In fact, in the whole of that month, that chart had just two Number Ones.

The first was his, then venerable, single Imagine which claimed the top spot for the bulk of the month, before being deposed, in the last week of it, by his more recent track Woman.

When it came to the UK album chart, Lennon spent the entire month at Number Two, with Double Fantasy, as Super Trouper by ABBA and then Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam and the Ants hogged the chart's peak position.

But there were other musical developments happening away from Britain because, that month, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced that, from now on, there would no longer be a Grammy Award for Disco, with the decision later being described as, "The official date of death," of the genre.

If the discotheques of the Western world were now to be verboten to all who sought Grammy approval, perhaps we could seek out refuge in the cinemas instead.

Or perhaps not. That January seems to have seen the unleashing upon the world of just four, "mainstream," movies; My Bloody Valentine, Sphinx, American Pop and Eyewitness.

I must confess I've never heard of any of these films, although I have, of course, heard of the band called My Bloody Valentine. Did they take their name from the movie? It would appear that they deny it, despite it being hard to believe they could have come up with the same name by pure chance.

Well, this is all very fine and dandy but what of the whole point of this post, which is The Galaxy's Greatest Comic?

I can't claim there's a lot to report, mostly because I have, as always, no recollection of the comics' actual contents - but I do have the feeling there wasn't anything too out of the ordinary going on. The usual strips were still running; Strontium Dog, Dash Decent, The Mean Arena, Judge Dredd and The Meltdown Man.

It is intriguing, though, to see that Judge Dredd was up against someone called Captain Skank. I have no idea who Captain Skank is but he certainly has a name that conjures up all kinds of images.