January Nineteenth 1974 – Shock UK, 50 years prior to now this week.
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Would you settle on to educate the field to assert?

In superb cohesion?

And grow apple trees and honey bees?

And snow-white turtle doves?

So would I!


Nonetheless, that honour used to be to be denied us, this week in 1974 on story of, whereas the Fresh Seekers of Coca-Cola advert status were at Number One on the UK singles chart, it wasn’t with that song. As an various, it used to be with the discover that they and each person else knew as You May maybe well maybe no longer Salvage One more Fool Love Me.

Sadly, I will shed no light upon whether the recipient of that song ever did accumulate one more fool esteem them.

Over on the accompanying LP chart, Slade were similarly triumphant, rock climbing nine areas to steal the Number One suppose, with their most fresh platter that battered, the waxing we can simplest call Sladest.


Spider-Man Comics Weekly #49, Dr Octopus

Or now no longer it’s time to blow up your balloons and lallygag around your bunting on story of a historic moment is upon us!


Or now no longer it’s right! This used to be the first field of SMCW I owned that possessed a shimmering quilt!

And what a quilt it is, as Doc Ock doesn’t put collectively to defeat real one Spider-Man, with his large tentacles. He is come what may defeating two of them on the identical time!

Within the guide, our hero’s out to search out the cephalopodic crimelord, following the ache accomplished to both Aunt May maybe well maybe’s smartly being and her dwelling. But, when he locates him, the wallcrawler may well maybe also need he hadn’t for the reason that villain makes use of a stolen easy-weapon to originate him lose his reminiscence.

Thor and the Sharp Man, meanwhile, are all situation to resume the struggle they’ve been waging for weeks. But, this time, in the halls of Asgard.

And it looks esteem or now no longer it ought to originate the morning papers, as reporter Harris Hobbs has blackmailed the enlighten god into transporting him to the mystic realm in return for silence about his secret id.

But is it even going to be Thor who defeats the copycat villain?

Or is it going to be Odin, who’s for the time being difficult him in strive against?

And can also the boss of the gods defeat a foe who can completely mimic his vitality and throw it ravishing aid at him?

But, devour on. We’re now no longer accomplished with pleasure but. I attain sing referring to the internal aid quilt of every of this week’s comics functions a easy page upon which we may well maybe also blueprint our plot for a hero or heel of our creation. Or now no longer it’s all part of an art work competitors, the first prize for which is a coloration tv.

For extra info about that competitors and the crucial position I played in it, you may maybe maybe click on this hyperlink right here.
The Avengers #18, Energy Man

The quarrelsome quartet accumulate themselves combating a foe who’s too real to discontinuance, because the Enchantress makes use of the machine, with which Mr Zemo created Shock Man, to turn regarded as one of Mr Zemo’s minions into Energy Man.

As if that weren’t immoral ample, the Metropolis Council’s so unimpressed by the team’s most fresh performance degree that it orders them to disband!

But what’s Dr Unparalleled up to in this field?

If he’s any sense he’s doubtlessly hiding from Energy Man. Nonetheless, he’s doubtlessly now no longer. He is doubtlessly too busy making an are attempting to discontinuance some supernatural threat or other.

The Mighty World of Shock #68, Hulk vs the Successfully-organized-Humanoid


And real discover at that. Right here’s the first shimmering-lined field of MWOM I ever owned.


Sadly, its frontage can’t be claimed to be as spectacular because the Spider-Man one, what with it being noticeably less smartly-drawn, less smartly-conceived and exhibiting some truly egregious colouring choices.

Fortunately, internal the guide, issues are a long way extra spectacular, as Stan Lee and Herb Trimpe give us a chronicle wherein the Hulk’s trapped internal a load of rubber whereas the Chief moves his Big Humanoid into Thunderbolt Ross’s missile corrupt in a plucky yelp to launch a nuclear holocaust.

Meanwhile, of their chronicle, the Fabulous Four portray the Avengers to butt out whereas they take care of the Mole Man who’s up to his fashioned recreation of kidnapping gigantic chunks of cities.

Nonetheless, Sue’s injured in the chaos – and simplest one man can assign her.

That man is her have father who’s now no longer simplest an world-class surgeon however, also, an escaped convict. Will he attain the ravishing ingredient and sacrifice his freedom to assign her?