Fifty years ago this month - November 1970.

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I don't normally associate Miss World with high drama but it certainly was in November 1970.

That's because it was stricken by not one but two setbacks.

The first was that, even as Bob Hope hosted it in London's Royal Albert Hall, the glitz and glamour was disrupted by Women's Lib protesters.

The second was The Angry Brigade lived up to their name by leaving a bomb outside the venue, in protest at separate black and white contestants having been chosen to represent South Africa.

But The Angry Brigade weren't the only ones who were fed up. For it was also the month in which The American Indian Movement seized a replica of The Mayflower in Boston.

Possibly not so irate were the people of the UK who were having to make sure they'd offloaded all their ten-shilling notes, as they ceased to be legal tender, in yet another move towards decimalisation.

I must confess I've no memory at all of the ten-shilling note and have no clue just how common or uncommon they were.

What I do have a memory of is The Goodies, that TV comedy show which was effectively Monty Python for kids. The series made its debut, on BBC Two, that month and quickly became a favourite with the public, even if it's not necessarily stood the test of time as well as it might have.

By means that are blurry to me, Aries has taken over New York City and sealed it off from the outside world.

Come to think of it, hasn't he done it by gassing everyone while they're asleep, so they've awoken to find their city occupied by his mercenary army?

Not that it matters, because Daredevil's on hand to help the Avengers deal with the fiend. Aries might fancy his chances against the world's mightiest super-team but what hope does he have against a blind acrobat?

That cad Baron Strucker finds an amnesiac youth, somewhere or other, and hypnotises him into thinking he's Bucky.

Strucker, of course, then uses this fake Bucky to lure Cap into a trap.

But is he a fake Bucky?

It would appear a movie mogul decides he needs to take violent action against those he deems un-American.

Apparently, that's what happens. I've no recall of this tale at all.

But it looks like it's bad news for DD.

The multi-part epic comes to its conclusion as Magneto seizes control of New York and...

...hold on a minute. Aries has also seized control of New York. How can they both have seized control of New York at the same time and why does neither seem to have noticed the presence of the other?

Anyway, this half of the New York Invasion Equation is thwarted by Reed Richards who invents a gun that turns Magneto's power against him.

Seemingly, Reed has no interest in doing anything about Aries' invasion.

It's one of my Hulk faves, as the green globetrotter finds himself having to play the part of a golem, in order to liberate a tiny country from the clutches of Draxon the dictator.

I have no recollection of this one at all but it sees the introduction of Kevin O'Brien, so it has some kind of historical significance.

I definitely have a recollection of this one. You'd need a heart of stone not to be traumatised by it, as George Stacy dies trying to save a child from a falling chimney stack.

And, now, more than ever, the world is convinced that Spider-Man is a menace.

Speaking of menaces, Dr Doom decides to hire the services of Donald Blake, in the belief the physician can perform the surgery needed to rebuild his face.

Of course, it's all a ruse by Thor to gain access to Latveria and rescue a scientist that Doom's holding prisoner.

Given Doom's Marvel ubiquity, it does seem amazing that it's taken this long for Thor to actually come up against him.