WILL OS' TV21 ADS AND ANNUALS

 

The TV21 ad for the TV21 and Captain Scarlet annuals and the and the actual annuals themselves.

Have you got them too? Did you have them as a kid?

Will Os

UK

Dark Shadows Comics

I came across an old Dark Shadows comic book while sorting through some things. I have no idea how long I have had this. As the show did not screen in New Zealand, I would not have known what it was anyway.

It is by Gold Key, which was once a major US comic book company, publishing a wide range of TV and movie based comics. According to Wikipedia, the company was active from 1962 to 1984.

Gold Key Comics - Wikipedia

The Dark Shadows series was based on the US supernatural soap opera that included vampires and werewolves. There were 35 issues. My example is issue No.29, dated December 1974. Published bi-monthly by the Western Publishing Company. Authorized edition, © 1974 by Dan Curtis Productions Inc. 

In 2010-11 Hermes Publishing released a five-volume, hardback re-print series of the Gold Key comics, under the title Dark Shadows - The Complete Series. They also reprinted the newspaper comic strips, and the original DS novels.

Dark Shadows Collection - Hermes Press (hermes-press.myshopify.com)

The cover of the original comic is printed on a light, glossy paper, while the contents are printed on a cheaper, newsprint-like paper. Full colour throughout. There are 32 pages, size 175 mm by 257 mm. 

The Gold Key emblem appears in the upper left hand corner, with the number 90240-412; there is a small orange and black photo of vampire Barnabas Collins; and the price was 25 cents US. There is one story inside, divided in to two parts. Stolen Centuries - Part 1: the Return, and Part 2: Rite of Passage. 

There are 25 pages of story, the remaining seven pages, inside covers, and the back cover, are all advertisements.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

CAPITAN ESCARLATA

 

March 1969, the Spanish TV guide advertising El Capitan Escarlata on the cover. Another international hit programme, Captain Scarlet.

Did you see Captain Scarlet outside the UK?

Let's Build A Creature From The Black Lagoon Model Kit

https://youtu.be/7lhYWqOvNNI 

check this video out!! 

Wow!!!

What do you think?

MJ

South Coast Base

TERRA SCIENCE FICTION

I love old sci fi pulp covers. These old German ones are great. TERRA - Piraten in Weltraum. 

There's lots of toy things I think of when I look at these covers. What do you see readers?

MOONSHOT 2

 A couple more photos of our celestial neighbour, showing it early this morning. 

What with the unpredictable weather, here in the UK , you have to seize the moment if you want to capture a photographic reminder of an astronomical spectacle. 

I was really taken with the orange glow of the Sun reflecting off  this morning's Moon. I grabbed my camera to take a snap, but the clouds were gathering, and within moments  covered the orange orb.

Once the clouds had cleared, I took a couple more shots before the Moon sank below the trees. I thought these looked quite surreal, with the Moon focused behind the trees.

ROSKO'S MONSTER

 

I love this box art for the Rosko Frankenstein Monster.

I had the Nomura Mod Monster as a kid.

The monster here reminds me of the old Frankenstein in the original Edison monster from his 1910 shirt film.

Did you or have you got a battery-operated Frankenstein?

MOONSHOT

 As it was a clear  frosty night yesterday evening, I took  the opportunity to take a photo of the full Moon.

I took another  wider shot  showing  Mars, which, although only looking like a star, is clearly visible to the naked eye at the moment, as it's directly opposite the Sun, known as an opposition.