After WOTAN's mighty posting of Ubercollector Terry's japanese find of mini plastic SWORD yesterday I didn't think anything else could possibley turn up. I was wrong! Doing one of my weekly browses of Ebay US I've come across the above record LP 'Randy Rayder from Outer Space' pictured above [estateroadshow]. Dated 1969 by See-Disc, the B-movie-titled disc holds two treasures for SWORD and space toy fans: firstly and most importantly the amazing and obvious PROBE FORCE 1 lookalike on the cover and secondly the Billy Blastoff face of the boy astronaut. The record woyld originally have come sealed as you can see in the pair below.
But the fun doesn't stop there! The record came with a comic with our friend the PF1 taking centre stage!
I just love the characters of this 'space fantasy' especially the wonderfully named 'Grand Shakoul of Chronus'! Navigator Bill even gets a look-in [that WOTAN, he gets everywhere!].
Now, having discovered this LP I googled it and was amazed to find it's allover the web! Copies are for sale on many Record Dealers' sites. Even better you can see the gatefold comic in it's entirety at STUPID COMICS, where you'll see that PF1 is described by the site's author as a 'giant phallic spaceship' and is called 'ATHENA' [in the comic] [watch out for the language in the author's commentary - it can be choice!].
And as far as I can make out, if you were technically-minded enough [unlike me] you could actually listen to the LP over at the cool Retro Cocktail Hour site. If anyone manages it or actually owns it let us know what it's like!
So, there we have it. SWORD on record. A first!
I had this album for many years as a boy. I loved it and I listened to it many times over.The Dr is hagar and Judy's father and Randy is the friend. The Dr. created the Athena AKA the Needle. Hagar and Judy are showing Randy the ship when all of the sudden the doors close and the ship starts and leaves with them on it. The ship is being kidnapped by the Great Kradnuck (sorry If i can't remember his name right) Anyways it's a great story and the sounds effects are cool. One year moving and a flood I lost this album. I would listen to it today if I had it..
ReplyDeleteif you have a copy of this burnt on cd let me know at darkorion98@yahoo.com
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