tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post5419475929756821920..comments2024-03-28T17:45:54.544+00:00Comments on Steve Does Comics: December 2nd 1981 - Marvel UK, 40 years ago this week.Steve W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-17006011070833907732021-12-05T21:00:47.779+00:002021-12-05T21:00:47.779+00:00Looks like a nice Al Williamson cover on that Star...Looks like a nice Al Williamson cover on that Star Wars issue- very playing to the eye!Dave Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10562199843047738071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-77040259334604330252021-12-05T12:11:13.802+00:002021-12-05T12:11:13.802+00:00M.P. - I know what you mean. The Romantics visite...M.P. - I know what you mean. The Romantics visited the Alps/Mont Blanc, and were struck by the sublime - a powerful feeling of awe & dread (with dread being the operative word!)<br /><br /> PhillipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-81990202327671674032021-12-05T11:08:36.485+00:002021-12-05T11:08:36.485+00:00Not at all, Philip, I always enjoy your comments, ...Not at all, Philip, I always enjoy your comments, and I hope you are well. I confess, the place was so wonderous and weird I couldn't even take it all in, and I barely remember it.<br />I vaguely remember a lake, but I can't recall if there were any swans.<br />I'd like to think there were. The whole thing was like something out of my childhood.<br />Or somebody's childhood, anyway.<br />Phil, I share your appreciation for the things in this life that seem magical.<br />If you get a chance, go see it!<br /><br />I gotta tell ya, though, just being around mountains (even small ones, which was the case) messed with my head a little bit. Where I come from its flat as a pancake. M.P. is a nervous cat when he's in unfamiliar areas.<br /><br />M.P.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-70877743002408820822021-12-05T09:07:42.974+00:002021-12-05T09:07:42.974+00:00M.P. - That trip sounds memorable! I've never...M.P. - That trip sounds memorable! I've never visited Ludwig's castle, although my sister has. Her husband's eldest sister married a German guy, and lives in Fussen. My sister had a big poster of Ludwig's castle, when I was a kid. I suppose your youth's the time for such adventures. My impulse to travel (never great) has lessened. My kidney's creatine (?) levels are raised, according to a blood test, a few days ago. I asked the young nurse what this meant. She replied, "That's a doctor question!" Those Tom Selleck movies have a lot to answer for. When I pressed her, she asked if I was drinking enough water. That's adding fuel to the fire! <br /><br />Back to Ludwig, the "Moon King" - yes, he's an interesting character, wanting to remain mysterious, both to himself & others. Maybe Moon Knight should use Steven Grant's billions to build a mock gothic castle! <br /><br />Interestingly, the tv show I was watching also said the king of Prussia deliberately declared himself Kaiser, at France's palace of Versailles (hall of mirrors, etc) - presumably to humiliate France. That reminded me of Hitler (much later) deliberately making France surrender in that railway carriage at Compien (?), out of spite, as this carriage was where Germany was forced to surrender, after WW1. Sorry, M.P. - I'm rambling, now!<br /><br /> PhillipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-55728716183179504122021-12-05T01:32:14.246+00:002021-12-05T01:32:14.246+00:00I've been to that castle of his, Phil, when I ...I've been to that castle of his, Phil, when I was stationed over there.<br />If Ludwig was nuts, it was certainly a brilliant kind of madness. <br />Holy shmolies. Heck, just the Alps by themselves stunned my brain, having grown up in Iowa.<br />Me and a couple buddies took the package tour (listening to a Led Zeppelin mix-tape all the way down there) and I was astounded by how many Japanese tourists were there.<br />It was a strange and wonderful day. A good time was had by all.<br /><br />M.P.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-6947630406906899122021-12-04T21:29:15.645+00:002021-12-04T21:29:15.645+00:00Charlie - Here's some free-associating.
On BB...Charlie - Here's some free-associating.<br /><br />On BBC4, tonight, I watched a documentary about mad King Ludwig, of Bavaria. Eventually, Ludwig called himself the "Moon King".<br /><br />This reminded me of Moon Knight # 7, which involved the "Moon Kings".<br /><br />Just by way of coincidence, I seem to remember, this story involved Chicago's water being polluted - albeit with lots of hallucinogenic drugs - or something!<br /><br /> Phillip Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-11453562579061838342021-12-04T21:11:36.972+00:002021-12-04T21:11:36.972+00:00Charlie - You return, and the blog springs back to...Charlie - You return, and the blog springs back to life again, like a galvanized frog!<br /><br />I've almost finished reading Charles Dickens' account of his (first?) trip to America (I'm onto Dickens' final section, about slavery). Dickens went on various river trips, and contrasted the Mississippi negatively with the clear water of the Ohio - and that was even long before 1890! One thing that infuriated Charles Dickens was the U.S. habit of spitting out chewing tobacco - even indoors, onto other people's floors/carpets! Dickens keeps returning to this, over & over again. In contrast, he's very positive about many of America's public institutions (apart from slavery).<br /><br />As regards Chicago, I read 'The Jungle', years ago, all about Lithuanian immigrants having to work in the stockyards - but I didn't know about all the sewage being diverted to the Mississippi. I'll have to widen my reading!<br /><br /> Phillip Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-31362996734330246552021-12-04T19:18:13.185+00:002021-12-04T19:18:13.185+00:00Good God! Don't tell me Beano, Dandy, Dennis ...Good God! Don't tell me Beano, Dandy, Dennis the Menace, Hotspur, Sparky, Victor, etc. were considered "juvenile!" What does this say about me if I still like reading them at age 60???<br /><br />Charlie Horse 47https://www.blogger.com/profile/00906538705798228800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-6651503021747516512021-12-04T19:08:54.800+00:002021-12-04T19:08:54.800+00:00Sorry Sean never saw your reply when I started to ...Sorry Sean never saw your reply when I started to type McSCOTTYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00180091610187270638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-17511840416422095262021-12-04T19:07:20.987+00:002021-12-04T19:07:20.987+00:00Charlie, Oor Willie and the Broons may have been m...Charlie, Oor Willie and the Broons may have been marketed separately from the Beano, Dandy etc as the former were published in the Sunday Post newspaper ( full page every week) so may have come under the newspaper banner whereas the comics were under the juvenile publications team etc. McSCOTTYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00180091610187270638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-16715667799192691252021-12-04T19:00:39.726+00:002021-12-04T19:00:39.726+00:00Oor Wullie and The Broons were strips in Scottish ...Oor Wullie and The Broons were strips in Scottish newspaper the Sunday Post Charlie, so I guess thats why the annuals were only (or largely?) sold there and not the whole of the UK.<br />You might enjoy the tv doc 'The Broons at 70' (although I bet you'll complain about the accents ;) -<br /><br />www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNfyR5jAApc<br /><br />-seanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-45000091271390618922021-12-04T17:53:21.922+00:002021-12-04T17:53:21.922+00:00Sean, b.t., Phillip, Steve - Thanks for the links ...Sean, b.t., Phillip, Steve - Thanks for the links / tips on the monthly comic mags available!!!<br /><br />Sean - special thanks for the heads up on DC Thomson! I will indeed check that out!<br /><br />Just curious... off hand... I still get DC Thomson emails of offerings very friendly and it really seems that the Oor Wullie/Broons line are marketed as a separate entity from the Beano/Dandy/Dennis Menace line of products.<br /><br />(Though as a kid I would see both in the same Xmas Annual Catalogue which was like 4-6 pages.)<br /><br />I am wondering if you know if there is some business / historical reason the two lines don't really seem to be blended when being marketed? Just different genre? Totally different audiences?Charlie Horse 47https://www.blogger.com/profile/00906538705798228800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-16900067595588326492021-12-04T17:46:29.024+00:002021-12-04T17:46:29.024+00:00HI Phillip -
Wow... that is cool you got to see ...HI Phillip - <br /><br />Wow... that is cool you got to see a show about Chi-town!<br /><br />Chicago's "big deal" was to reverse the flow of the Chicago River so that it drained to the west ultimately to the Mississippi River then into the Gulf of Mexico in 1890.<br /><br />This kept the raw sewage out of the Lake which was causing the cholera, etc. outbreaks. This led to cholera outbreaks in St Louis, now downstream from Chicago's sh!t, since it is on the Mississippi. <br /><br />Wow... I could talk for hours on this but won't lol. I will maybe make a list of things worth googling if you want to understand how the environment / ecosystem around here has been totally wrecked.<br />Charlie Horse 47https://www.blogger.com/profile/00906538705798228800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-37224592293250643432021-12-04T08:29:34.680+00:002021-12-04T08:29:34.680+00:00Bt, I mostly use the Grand Comics Database and Com...Bt, I mostly use the Grand Comics Database and ComicVine to find out what UK comics came out when.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-71641552009529486832021-12-04T01:14:06.682+00:002021-12-04T01:14:06.682+00:00I don't think Steve uses it but a handy way to...I don't think Steve uses it but a handy way to get a sense of what Marvel UK published is to checkout the timelines on Michael Carroll's Rusty Staples blog.<br />Like this one that covers MWOM, the Spidey titles and the various comics that merged with them (theres a second one at the site covering the remaining ones) -<br /><br />https://michaelowencarroll.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/the-mwom-smcw-timeline/<br /><br />Its not the month by month guide Charlie asked for, but its a useful overview expressed in a single graphic.<br />Plus, I thought he'd appreciate the DC Thomson timeline. Just click on the timelines tag near the top of the page Charlie, and you'll find it - its awesome. <br />Although perhaps the most impressive is the one for Buster, which covers over a century (Buster itself started in 1960, but by including the various merged titles apparently goes back all the way to the first issue of Funny Cuts from 1890).<br /><br />-seanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-22627731131726920052021-12-04T00:31:21.125+00:002021-12-04T00:31:21.125+00:00The new singles chart (which really should be re-n...The new singles chart (which really should be re-named the streaming chart as it's VERY different from the physical singles chart) is now packed with Christmas songs including Slade's 'Merry Xmas Everybody' at #48 which is a relief because the British festive season can't officially begin until Slade make their first appearance! And there's good news for Charlie because 'It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year' by Andy Williams is at #38. Colin Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13564469551279026689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-31249632993395746672021-12-03T23:13:38.851+00:002021-12-03T23:13:38.851+00:00Philip:
Yeah, I think Charlie was wondering if the...Philip:<br />Yeah, I think Charlie was wondering if there was something like a ‘UK equivalent’ of the fabulous and indispensable Mike’s Amazing World Newsstand, with a month-by-month listing of all the various UK comics, reprint or otherwise. (Sorry Charlie, if I’m putting words in your mouth that don’t belong there…)<br /><br />Steve:<br />If there ISN’T such a website, what reference source do you use for your ‘UK Comics 40 Years Ago’ posts? <br /><br />b.t.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-25903803151246493772021-12-03T22:08:10.536+00:002021-12-03T22:08:10.536+00:00Charlie - UK's Channel 5 has just broadcast an...Charlie - UK's Channel 5 has just broadcast an interesting tv show about Chicago, entitled 'Draining Lake Michigan'. It was about underwater archaeology, as related to Chicago's history. Chicago had something similar to London's 'Great Stink', with lots of associated cholera, etc - so some guy connected a pumping station on Michigan Avenue to the middle of Lake Michigan, via a brick tunnel, to get fresh water to the city. There was also stuff about a ship overloaded with Christmas trees, sinking on Lake Michigan. Finally, after Pearl Harbour, training for landing on carriers was done on Lake Michigan, too, with lots of crashed Grumman Avengers, at the Lake's bottom.<br /><br />Charlie, you'll know most of this already, but it was news to me!<br /><br /> PhillipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-14227543168785834232021-12-03T20:44:39.258+00:002021-12-03T20:44:39.258+00:00Oh, reprints! - Did you mean a UK one? I don'...Oh, reprints! - Did you mean a UK one? I don't know about that.<br /><br /> PhillipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-19500552449455648212021-12-03T19:11:31.505+00:002021-12-03T19:11:31.505+00:00Charlie - This is a good one:
http://www.mikesama...Charlie - This is a good one:<br /><br />http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php<br /><br /> PhillipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-64775073714992750122021-12-03T17:47:47.749+00:002021-12-03T17:47:47.749+00:00I dare say that you chaps had a far greater breadt...I dare say that you chaps had a far greater breadth of time-span and artists to choose from than we did at that time? I mean - Ditko, Roth, Kirby all on the stands for you. Like 1966 for us. <br /><br />Isn't there a www site that can show the US dudes what the covers were to what was on sale in a given month, even the reprint titles?Charlie Horse 47https://www.blogger.com/profile/00906538705798228800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-87586460392366823972021-12-03T17:21:57.939+00:002021-12-03T17:21:57.939+00:00Sean, you're probably right about there being ...Sean, you're probably right about there being a <i>TV21</i> Dalek story in that mag. It did like to make use of that strip.<br /><br />Sean and Bt, thanks for the Jess Jodloman info. It turns out I'd seen his work in <i>Weird War Tales</i>. <br /><br />Charlie, the Locust, on that cover, does indeed have a Smith/Steranko kind of vibe about him.<br /><br />DW, thanks for the Timesmasher info.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-87074537297127514792021-12-03T13:33:11.398+00:002021-12-03T13:33:11.398+00:00MP, Tom Baker also played the evil wizard Koura in...MP, Tom Baker also played the evil wizard Koura in 'The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad' and I remember reading that he was offered the part of Dr. Who on the strength of his role as Koura. I don't know if that's true or not!Colin Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13564469551279026689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-47728327063125813082021-12-03T09:40:49.882+00:002021-12-03T09:40:49.882+00:00Sean - As regards Target books, I had 3 Cybermen o...Sean - As regards Target books, I had 3 Cybermen ones: 10th Planet, Tomb, & Revenge ( I can't be bothered writing the names in full). My bro' had Ice Warriors, plus another one I can't remember.<br /><br />My favourite Dr. Who episodes were the Krynoid ones (giant plant monster).<br /><br />Moving from Ireland, you must have missed 'Rancheros' (excellent corn snack). They were sold in Ireland & Malta, but not the UK.<br /><br /> PhillipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-49249173865640282382021-12-03T08:54:16.606+00:002021-12-03T08:54:16.606+00:00I did see some of the Tom Baker episodes, Sean, wh...I did see some of the Tom Baker episodes, Sean, when I was pretty young. My uncle always had public television on when we went over there and a large part of their programming back in the day were shows from the U.K. <br />Baker was born for the role of Dr. Who. <br />He was a pretty good Rasputin too, as I recall. <br />I remember seeing an episode where there were Vikings in space, and thinking, "this seems pretty cool, but I got aunts talking all over the place and cats jumping on my lap and I just can't follow the plot."<br /><br />M.P.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com