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What was occurring in this week of exactly fifty years ago?
This was occurring.
The UK's legendary heat wave peaked with a temperature of 35.9 °C (96.6 °F) in Cheltenham.
Possibly not connected with that was that, suddenly, you couldn't move for punk bands. Not only did the Clash play their first gig, opening for the Sex Pistols in Sheffield, but the Damned played their first gig too, opening for the Sex Pistols in London.
Elsewhere, but perhaps not as anarchically, David Steel was elected leader of the UK's Liberal Party.
And, on the UK singles chart, the Real Thing held onto their Number One spot, thanks to You to Me Are Everything.
While the accompanying album chart saw a brand new Number One, thanks to Rod Stewart's A Night on the Town.
Just two issues of The Avengers to go before the book's cancellation but there's still no rest for Conan the Barbarian, as he encounters yet another Lovecraftian horror from beyond the other side of sanity, thanks to a drama titled ...In the Dark Valley Waits...Death!
Thanks to H Warren Craddock and his fixation on alien threats, the Avengers find themselves caught up in a Trial of Terror!
And Shang-Chi must endure a ...Death Duel with Darkstrider!
Jason, Alexander, Malagueña and oddball inventor Lightsmith find a perfect hiding place - inside a nostril on Mount Rushmore.
Brutus the gorilla, meanwhile, is preparing an attack on the base of the Inheritors!
Back in the present day world, Dracula destroys Doctor Sun and regains his full powers but that's not enough for Blade who demands the vampire help him find the fiend who killed his mother.
And, then, it's time to strap ourselves in as we encounter a tale we'll never forget when the Man-Thing is blundering around in the swamp and encounters the corpse of a suicidal clown...
And Ka-Zar's search for the missing Zabu leads him to a city whose fanatical cult has enslaved its own people!
It's a landmark issue, all right, as the Punisher makes his shoot-first-ask-questions-later debut.
And I believe that means the Jackal also makes his first appearance.
But what's this? A brand new strip has materialised in the mag?
It certainly has because none other than Moon Knight himself tries to stop someone called the Conquer-Lord from assassinating the mayor of somewhere or other!
When it comes to the mag's old stagers, Iron Man has double trouble on his hands when the Red Ghost revives the Unicorn and ups his power levels in a bid to destroy our hero.
Thor travels to the World Beyond, in search of Odin who continues to engage in combat with the mysterious Infinity.
Meanwhile, Bashful Benjy visits an Arizona ghost town where he bumps into the Son of Satan and they discover they must battle the ghost of the town's founder.
And Dr Strange confronts the Ancient One - and the masked Dr Strange - while Baron Mordo gains control of the Aged Genghis!
The Hulk's latest Canadian adventure continues, as a young woman bids to save her brother by transferring the curse of the Wendigo onto the brute, via the use of magic.
However, not all goes to plan when a certain claw-possessing troublemaker of Canadian origin appears in the final panel, and comic book history will never be the same again!
Back in New York, it would appear that Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson set out to assess the sanity of the imprisoned Gladiator who, inevitably, sets out to escape!
And I do believe the X-Men are prisoners of Magneto. A fact that leads to an escape bid by the Angel which leads to him bumping into an island inhabited by the mysterious Red Raven!
A brand new villain appears in the life of the Fantastic Four, as the Monocle sets out to start World War III by killing delegates at the United Nations.
And he's going to use his deadly camera to do it!
Subby has problems of his own when Doctor Dorcas transforms Olympic swimmer Todd Arliss into the villainous Tiger Shark. A foe who quickly defeats a weakened Namor before abducting Lady Dorma. Surely the most abducted woman in history. Even ahead of Sue Storm.
In the jungles of Wakanda, Captain America joins forces with the Black Panther to try and thwart Baron Zemo's latest - satellite based - wheeze.
Nick Fury leads SHIELD to its latest victory over Hydra.
And the Ghost Rider races to save Roxanne Simpson from Snake Dance's deadly ritual.
I suppose Lady Dorma can take some comfort from the fact that she might be Marvel's most abducted female but at least she's not as prone to being sacrificed as Roxanne is.
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3 comments:
Anyone else notice the gun violence on some of the covers?
After watching so many UK shows here, Charlie wonders how Brits process gun violence compared to the US?
Gun violence can be an everyday reality here, usually within a handful of miles from where one lives.
You gents… i wonder if it feels more like science fiction?
Joe (on behalf of Charlie)
Joe - When I was a kid, my auntie Dorothy (she was actually a more distant relation than that ), visiting from the USA, asked me if I'd consider moving to America, when I grew up. I replied, telling her that living in the USA didn't appeal to me, as lots of Americans have guns, and they shoot people! My auntie Dorothy asked if I realized that's just on American tv cop shows, and it's not like that, in real life. I wasn't altogether convinced!
Phillip
It’s a thing Phillip. The jerk-o across the street from me had a huge sign up this past election that said “god, guns, and trump.” I Like to remind people that Texas, with 30 million people, has more gun murders in a year than the UK, France, Germany, and Japan combined, which has a population of around 300 million people.
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