2000 AD - July 1987.

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There were so many well-known movies released in July 1987 that it was almost enough to make a man or woman's head spin.

For instance, it saw the unveiling of Adventures in Babysitting, Innerspace, Full Metal Jacket, Jaws: The Revenge, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, RoboCop, La Bamba, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, The Living Daylights and, of course, The Lost Boys.

I am, to the surprise of no one, going to nominate Adventures in Babysitting as my film of the month, if only for the fact that it has Thor in it.

But what's this? Things were also happening in the world of television?

It would appear so because that August also saw the first broadcast of a TV movie based on Will Eisner's The Spirit. One starring Sam J Jones of Flash Gordon fame.

But that's enough of movies. What about music?

It was a month which kicked off with the Pet Shop Boys' It's a Sin standing astride the summit of the UK singles chart. But soon that had to subside before the power of Madonna's Who's That Girl? which then had to recede before the might of Los Lobos and their cover of La Bamba.

Over on the parallel album chart, July launched with Whitney Houston's Whitney on top before it was shoved aside by Introducing the Hardline According to ... by Terence Trent D'Arby which then had to make way for Various Artists' Hits 6.

And what of the galaxy's greatest comic?

It was still serving up a familiar diet of Anderson: PSI Division, Tharg's Future-Shocks, Rogue Trooper, Judge Dredd, Mean Team and Strontium Dog.

But there was also less-long-established fare, in the from of D. R. & Quinch's Agony Page, Ro-Jaws' Robo-Tales and Tales From Mega-City One.