tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60244015728160204592024-03-16T01:09:58.501+00:00STARLOGGED - GEEK MEDIA AGAINSLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.comBlogger2486125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-14183146298426200782018-02-22T08:00:00.004+00:002018-02-22T08:02:30.755+00:00STAR WARS WEEKLY REVIEW - ISSUE 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">There was No Wednesday 29 February in 1978. The cover should have read 1 March. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Another cover that doesn’t entirely faithfully reflect events in the movie.. or the adaptation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Early evidence of mass-market merchandising (the jigsaws and the KP mailaway)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode 4 of DOCTOR WHO: THE INVASION OF TIME aired on Saturday 25 February.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">2000AD prog 54 went on sale the same day with the usual line-up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Also stateside, the last season of THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN was drawing to a conclusion with the two-part adventure ‘Date With Danger’ airing on the 20th and 27th. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">ADVERTS: STAR WARS COLLECTORS EDITION MAGAZINE, STAR WARS FILM CLIPS, NEXT ISSUE PREVIEW (Half page), MARVEL UK HOUSE AD (Half page) and THE OFFICIAL STAR WARS FAN CLUB (1 page).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">A Page 3 credit for Alloa Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. of 18-20 Mar Street Alloa. This was - presumably - Marvel UK’s printers of the period. Alloa in Clackmannanshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Alloa P&P was established in December 1966 and is now defunct. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL is once again omitted from the House Ad. That’s three week’s running! I wonder if the advert was being prepared specifically for MWOM and then also running in SWW and no-one noticed the error. SWW was supported by its own House Ad in the other weeklies so its absence from this group ad makes more sense. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38;">The saga continues… Welcome to the STARLOGGED retrospective of STAR WARS WEEKLY issue 2, published by Marvel UK 40 years ago today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">TALES OF THE GALAXY: HEY BUDDY, CAN YOU LEND ME A… PT1 (2 pages) <<Reprinted from UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION issue 1>></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">HOW TO BUILD YOUR STAR WARS T.I.E FIGHTER free gift instructions (½ page)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">MARVEL UK WEEKLIES house ad for RAMPAGE, SUPER SPIDER-MAN and THE COMPLETE FANTASTIC FOUR (½ page)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Also published by MARVEL UK this week: SUPER SPIDER-MAN issue 262, THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL 281, RAMPAGE 18 and THE COMPLETE FANTASTIC FOUR 21.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Published by Tharg this week: 2000AD prog 52 (On sale: 11 February. Cover dated: 18 February) with ‘New Thrill COLONY EARTH and a memorable FUTURE SHOCK amongst the usual suspects. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, TC3 played host to ‘Breakdown’, the show’s tenth episode on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 February. The episode aired less than a month later on Monday 6 March. Rehearsals for episode 11 - ‘Bounty’ started on Monday 13 February. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode two of the DOCTOR WHO’s ‘The Invasion of Time’ aired on Saturday 11 February, watched by 11.4 million viewers. </span></div>
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A long time ago... in a galaxy far, far away.... Forty years ago today, the first issue of Marvel UK's new STAR WARS WEEKLY hit newsagents across the land (give or take a day to allow for patchy distribution)... perfectly timed to tap into the STAR WARS zeitgeist swiftly spreading (along with the film itself) across the land. <br />
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The story of Britain's STAR WARS comic is also the story of the 'Star Age' in the UK... spanning 1978 through '85, it was the time when space adventure was playground chique and the next knock-off wannabe was embraced with the same enthusiasm as the latest instalment in the saga itself. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduction page teasing upcoming competitions and features.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Star Wars adaptation PT1 (8 pages) reprinted from STAR WARS US issue 1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Tales of the Galaxy: The Forest for the Trees PT1 (7 pages) reprinted from UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION issue 1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">A double-page behind-the-scenes feature on the film.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Assembly instructions for the ‘X-Fighter’ free gift. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Adverts for the STAR WARS FAN CLUB (UK branch), the Marvel-published STAR WARS COLLECTORS EDITION one-shot magazine, STAR WARS film clips, Stamps and Marvel’s other weeklies, a full-page preview for the second issue and the colour back cover hawking the Micronauts toys (sold by Airfix in the UK). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The free gift: a cardboard X-Wing fighter (described throughout as an ‘X-Fighter’). Copies with the gift still intact are very hard to find and command a hefty premium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The UK adaptation retains the legendary additional Tatooine scenes included in the shooting script - and therefore the adaptations prepared and published prior to the final edit and the film’s release - even through Marvel and 20th Century Fox would have been aware that they no longer featured in the film itself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">SWW’s page count was only 28 pages (of which only fifteen were devoted to strips, five were adverts and eight were the cover, pin-up, features and sundry editorial) compared with the standard 36 for the other Marvel UK weeklies. Yet the cover price was - like the other titles - 10p. The discrepancy is partly attributable to the higher cost of a licensed title (compared with the other weeklies which reprinted strips and characters that Marvel owned outright) but also a lack of suitable material to reprint. The weekly schedule meant the inventory of SW strips already published in the States would quickly be eroded and finding suitable back-up strips was tricky for a publisher with little track record with SF material. Cutting the page count (and running a lot of non-strip fillers) simply made life easier and the long-term survival of the title more likely. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Most of the adverts are STAR WARS-centric (which must have been a gift to the Ad Sales team) but it’s noticeable that none hail from the big UK merchandisers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">A lack of house ads for other Marvel UK comics. SWW represented a significant opportunity to lure new readers into the Marvel fold by reaching out to an audience who might otherwise skip their superhero fare or - indeed - comics in general. Yet, despite all the padding, only ½ a page was devoted to plugging the other weeklies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">STAR WARS was finally released in the UK - initially only at London’s Dominion and Leicester Square Odeon screens (presented at both locations in glorious 70mm) - on 27 December 1977. National roll-out was slow so the February launch of the weekly was perfect timing. The delayed debut also allowed Marvel to build as large a buffer of strips as possible prior to launch as the weekly schedule would quickly erode the sleight inventory of already-published strips. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The American STAR WARS comic book (published monthly with colour interiors) launched on 12 April 1977 as part of the marketing strategy to raise awareness for the impending release of the film. Marvel - preferring their own properties - were reluctant partners but sealed the deal when the rights were offered for virtually nothing. The adaptation - based on a shooting script and not the final edit - ran across the first six issues. Marvel were more than pleasantly surprised by the runaway success of the comic (which was later credited for reversing the publisher’s declining fortunes) and extended the run with original postovie adventures, created under the supervision of Lucasfilm, from the seventh issue. The material created for the American edition, as per usual British Marvel practice, formed the backbone of the contents for the UK weekly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The first house ads for the imminent launch of SWW had appeared in Marvel’s weeklies dated 8 December 1977.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Marvel had already imported copies of the US-published STAR WARS MARVEL SPECIAL EDITION TREASURIES, tabloid-sized colour reprints of the six-issue movie adaptation from the US monthly. The first volume (covering the first half of the adaptation) appeared in UK newsagents in early October 1977 followed by the second volume in early December. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The one-shot magazine STAR WARS COLLECTORS EDITION, the Marvel UK edition of the STAR WARS ALBUM published in the States by Ballantine Books, had been on sale since early December. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">US fans had a chance to double-dip Marvel STAR WARS strips. In addition to the regular monthly comic, PIZZAZZ magazine also featured regular post-movie adventures of the Star Warriors. The strips from the first nine issues of the US mag eventually reached the pages of SWW in late December 1978 and January 1979, running in issues 47-50. This ‘supplementary’ material helped alleviate the ever-present deadline problem as demand for material outpaced supply. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The STAR WARS novelisation, published by Sphere and credited to George Lucas, had also already been on sale for several months. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">BBC RADIO 2’s STAR SOUND, presented by David Bellan, had played extracts from the STAR WARS soundtrack, as part of a musical preview of upcoming movies, on 29 August 1977 at 22.05. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Chat show supremo Michael PARKINSON had interviewed Sir Alec Guinness in a special edition of his eponymous Saturday Night show on 13 December ‘77 at 23.20. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">BBC ONE’s FILM 77, aired on 18 December, previewed STAR WARS, ROLLERCOASTER and THE DEEP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Broadcaster Paul Ganbaccini met some of the team behind the movie for a special edition of BBC RADIO 4’s KALEIDOSCOPE, aired on Thursday 22 December.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael Rodd’s SCREEN TEST, shown on BBC 1 on Monday 4 January ‘78, invited pupils from Barrow County Grammar School and Ramsey Grammar School to answer questions based on a clip from the movie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Gary Kurtz, John Barry and Mark Hamill appeared on BBC TWO’s ARENA, presented by Gavin Millar, on Wednesday 11 January. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The first comic published by Marvel UK was THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL launched on 30 September 1972 (with a cover date of 7 October). The weekly anthology, intended as a showcase for Marvel characters for both readers and the news trade, initially featured 1960s reprints of Spider-man, the Hulk and the Fantastic Four. The launch was accompanied by a TV advert shown on ITV. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The web slinger was - ahem - spun off into his own weekly the following year. Launched on 10 February 1973 (with a cover date of the 17th), the TV-promoted SPIDER-MAN COMICS WEEKLY featured Thor as the back-up strip. The vacant slot in MWOM was taken by Daredevil. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Other pre-1978 British Marvel titles included THE AVENGERS (1973-76), PLANET OF THE APES (1974-77), DRACULA LIVES! (1974-76), THE SUPERHEROES (1975-76), THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN WEEKLY (1975), the landscape format THE TITANS (1975-76), CAPTAIN BRITAIN (1976-77), FURY (1977), THE COMPLETE FANTASTIC FOUR (1977-78), RAMPAGE WEEKLY (1977-78) and THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN MONTHLY (1977-86).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Although nominally headquartered in the UK, the British operation was based in the New York Bullpen. The format and publishing schedule of the titles meant that, even though they were driven by low-cost reprints, exclusive covers and interior art were regularly commissioned from US creators. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The British operation was, by late 1977, struggling and its long-term future was in some doubt. The company had not been able to replicate the success of the early launches and a a succession of titles had struggled to survive longer than a year in print. The UK edition of STAR WARS, like the US monthly, represented an opportunity to turn the company around. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Anticipating the boom in all things SF, IPC had launched 2000AD weekly on 19 February 1977 (cover dated the 26th). The initial line-up of strips: Dan Dare, Harlem Heroes, Invasion, M.A.C.H 1 and Flesh. Judge Dredd’s debut came a prog later. The first year had also seen spin-offs the DAN DARE POSTER MAGAZINE (on sale 23 June), the first SUMMER SPECIAL (on sale 30 June) and the first ANNUAL (on sale from early September and dated for the following year as per the tradition). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Dez Skinn published (with the help of his contributors) the first issue of his STARBURST magazine in November 1977. Although Star Wars featured prominently, Skinn was cautious no to incur the wrath of either the studio or Marvel UK by looking too much like an official tie-in or impinging on the license to publish the Collectors Edition one-shot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The Fifth SATURN AWARDS, awarded by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, took place in California on 14 January 1978. The ceremony, honouring the accomplishments of the previous year, was hosted by William Shatner (where he performed internet sensation ‘Rocket Man’). The event was even televised in the States. STAR WARS won in many categories including ‘Best Science Fiction Film’, ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for Alec Guinness, ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Writer’ for George Lucas, ‘Best Music’, ‘Best Costumes’, ‘Best Special Effects’ and ‘Best Makeup’. Surprisingly none of the principal cast dominated in their categories, missing out to George Burns (for OH, GOD!) and Jodie Foster (for THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE). STARLOG MAGAZINE advertised during the ceremony in a spot starring Robbie the Robot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND had been released in US theatres on 16 November 1977. Its success proved to the industry that the success of STAR WARS had not been a flook and that audiences were willing to revisit the genre in droves. The floodgates were about to open. The film was released in the UK on 13 March 1978, Copies of the American Marvel Super Special magazine were shipped across the Atlantic… and promoted with some cheeky House Ads featuring C-3PO. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Buyers of the first issue of SWW were invited to join the UK branch of THE STAR WARS FAN CLUB. For £2.95 members received a poster, a t-shirt transfer, a sticker, a fabric patch, a book cover, a newsletter (just the one?), membership card and a couple of unspecified colour photos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The other three titles published the same week as STAR WARS WEEKLY issue 1 were:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">2000AD prog 51 (on sale 4 Feb and cover dated 11 Feb) featured Dan Dare, Visible Man, a Future Shock, Judge Dredd, Invasion, Inferno and Walter the Robot (‘Fwiend of Dwedd’).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Work was underway on STARLORD, the new monthly companion to 2000AD. Except, at the last minute, IPC management opted to make it a weekly which - in a crowded market and with a higher cover price and print quality - hampered its changes of longevity. The first issue went on sale in early May. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">BLAKE’S SEVEN had debuted, with ‘The Way Back’, on 2 January 1978 at 6pm. It was watched by 7.4 million viewers. Location filming had taken place the between 4-10 October the previous year. Studio work followed on 11-12 November. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The second episode, ‘Space Fall’, was actually the first to be recorded with work at the Ealing Film Studios undertaken on 3 October followed by recording in TVC starting on 1 November. Filming on the tenth episode, Breakdown, had commenced at Ealing Studios on Monday 23 January.... running until the Wednesday. After a brief hiatus, rehearsals for material to be shot in TV Centre’s studio 3 began at the BBC’s Acton rehearsal rooms on Thursday 2 February. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode six, ‘Seek-Locate-Destroy’, aired on Monday 23 January before the series took a brief broadcast hiatus, returning on Monday 13 February with ‘Mission to Destiny’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Trevor Hoyle’s novelisation of BLAKE’S SEVEN’s opening episodes had already been on sale since the end of 1977. The relatively fast turnaround between shooting and broadcast meant that his work (the first of three novels he would create based on the series) was based on the scripts and not the final episodes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">DOCTOR WHO’s fifteenth season continue with episode one of ‘The Invasion of Time’ on Saturday 4 February. 11.2 million viewers tuned in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, the Doctor’s adventures in the Himalaya’s continued in the TV COMIC strip ‘The Snow Devils’. The five-part story started in issue 1361 (cover dated 14 January) and continued through to 1365 (11 February). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The novelisation of ‘The Face Of Evil’ (by Terrance Dicks, of course) had been added to the Target Books DOCTOR WHO range in January with the next, ‘Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock’, on schedule for March. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Douglas Adams and flatmate John Lloyd were busy writing the fifth and sixth episodes of the BBC Radio 4 series THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY ahead of the series debut on 8 March. Earlier episodes were probably being recorded in the BBC’s Paris Theatre on Lower Regent Street around this time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Thames Television’s THE TOMORROW PEOPLE was on hiatus between the fifth and sixth seasons. he last original episode, the second part of ‘The Heart of Sogguth’ had aired on 4 April 1977. The show returned, with the first episode of ‘The Lost Gods’ on 15 May 1978. Meanwhile, the season seven stories ‘Castle of Fear’ and ‘Achilles Heel’ were in production during January and February 1978. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Amongst the other SF-themed shows doing the rounds of the ITV regions in early 1978: SPACE:1999 and THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Production - and possibly principal photography - were already underway on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’s opening episode ‘Saga of a Star World’. It was only after work had started in earnest that broadcaster ABC opted to extend their commitment from three TV movies (with a combined running time of seven hours including commercials) to a full season. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, Galactica showrunner (along with Leslie Stevens) was concurrently developing a TV version of newspaper strip hero BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY. A previous interpretation had gone into pre-production on the lot the previous summer but the studio and network NBC scraped the script - and some pre-production art created by illustrator Bob McCall - and drafted in Larson and team. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Paramount had, since 1975, been developing various script ideas for a low-budget STAR TREK feature film to capitalise on the show’s unexpected success, at home and abroad, in reruns. Several scripts had been commissioned - and rejected - before the unexpected success of STAR WARS prompted the studio to officially cancel the project on 9 May 1977 in the belief that the success of one SF movie was a flook and audiences would not return to see another big screen adventure from the same genre. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead, the studio announced, on 17 June 1977, that Paramount intended to challenge the dominance of the three network system by creating the ‘Paramount Television Service’ with a 13-episode STAR TREK series, dubbed PHASE II, at the core of the schedule. In reality this was to have been - at least at first - far from a full network and simply a block of programming offered to local stations on a Saturday night. Despite the project’s relatively modest aspirations, it soon became clear to the studio that advertisers were not sufficiently enthused by the proposition to generate the income required. However, rather than taint the TREK name with another abandoned project - and to keep their options re: the network open - Paramount allowed pre-production on the new series to continue for several more months. Cast members were signed, scripts commissioned, sets and miniatures designed and built and some test footage shot. The bulk of the work was quietly abandoned. The extensive costs were not written off by the studio but rolled into the accounts of the film version, further inflating its already substantial budget. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">However, the extended success of STAR WARS, and the landing of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, convinced studio management that a TREK feature film, previously mooted - and then abandoned - mid-decade, was now a viable proposition. The script for the feature-length pilot, ‘In Thy Image’, by Alan Dean Foster (the ubiquitous Star Age scribe responsible for ghost writing the Lucas-credited STAR WARS novelisation), was dusted off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Other films showing in London’s West End this week included CATHY’S CURSE (rated ‘X’), DRAWS (Makes Jaws look like a lovesick goldfish! Rated ‘X’), THE CHOIRBOYS (rated ‘X’), FIRST LOVE (rated ‘X’), ONE ON ONE (rated ‘A’), ROLLERCOASTER (rated ‘A’), THE NYMPHO (rated ‘X’), THE EROTIC THREE (rated ‘X’), FLOSSIE (rated ‘X’), DIRTY DORA (rated ‘X’), THE DUELLISTS (rated ‘A’), FURTHER CONFESSIONS OF A SIXTH FORM GIRL (rated ‘X’), SHE’S TOO HOT TO HANDLE (rated ‘X’) and THE GAUNTLET (rated ‘X’). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">STAR TREK, a mainstay of the BBC schedules, was on an extended hiatus. ‘Return to Archons’ had aired on Monday 19 July 1976 at 19.25. The show’s next outing, ‘Where No Man Had Gone Before’, was on Tuesday 5 September 1978 at 18.50. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The short-lived THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY had aired - briefly - on BBC ONE beginning 5 March 1977. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The final episode of the TV version of LOGAN’S RUN (episode 14: Stargate) aired on CBS on 6 February 1978. The show, based on the 1976 movie, had premiered on 16 September 1977 but failed to find an audience. The show made its UK debut, replacing THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS in some regions, on 7 January 1978. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS had gone on hiatus after the 13 December 1977 episode (the ninth: ‘C.W. Hyde’) and remained off the NBC schedules until the final four episodes were burnt off in April and May, beginning 18 April 1978. Meanwhile, the Marvel Comics adaptation continued. On this side of the pond, the show had made its ITV debut on 24 September 1977. A LOOK IN strip would follow in ‘78. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The WONDER WOMAN TV series - now officially THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WONDER WOMAN - continued on CBS. The episode ‘Diana’s Disappearing Act’ aired on 3 February 1978. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">THE INCREDIBLE HULK was gearing up to become a weekly series. Two well recieved TV movies had aired in November 1977 prompting CBS to commission ten hour-long episodes air, beginning with ‘Final Round’ on 10 March 1978. The show would make its UK debut on 26 May 1978. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Production was underway on the live-action SPIDER-MAN TV show - also for CBS - after the successful pilot movie the previous September. The next original episode, ‘The Deadly Dust’ part one, would air on 5 April 1978. The pilot movie - complete with some ropey special effects - was released as a feature film in British cinemas on 19 March 1978. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The live-action Filmation Saturday morning drama SPACE ACADEMY had just wrapped a run of fifteen episodes airing between 10 September 1977 and 17 December 1977. Reruns continued on CBS in 1978. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Filmation also landed THE SPACE SENTINELS animated show on NBC’s Saturday morning slate beginning 10 September 1977. Thirteen original episodes aired through to 3 December the same year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">TV movies shown Stateside in January and the first week of February included RETURN TO FANTASY ISLAND (the second pilot movie, shown 20/1), THE DARK SECRET OF HARVEST HOME (23/1), THE BERMUDA DEPTHS (27/1), Richard Hatch, future star of the BATTLESTAR, in DEADMAN’S CURVE (3/2), Future Galacticans Dirk Benedict and Ray Millard in CRUISE INTO TERROR (3/2) and THE INITIATION OF SARAH (6/2). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The early 1978 line-up of strips in the (I)TV/ pop/ movies and sport weekly, published as an offshoot from TV TIMES by ITV Publications, was BENNY HILL, ABBA, THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, Gerry Anderson’s STAR CRUISER (a ½ page strip that Anderson hoped would spawn a TV show… it didn’t), DOCTOR ON THE GO, THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and THE BIONIC WOMAN. Only the Bionic strips enjoyed access to the rationed colour interior pages. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The edition dated 31 December 1977 cover-featured the movie along with an inside feature. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The issue which shared newsagents shelves with copies of SWW issue 1 included a STAR WARS feature and boasted a bizarre Luke Skywalker/ Donna Summer team-up cover. </span></div>
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SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-22335082944239775012017-08-16T07:42:00.001+01:002017-08-16T07:42:06.372+01:001995: THERMAL LANCE ISSUE 25From around now back in 1995: THERMAL LANCE issue 25 and a line-up of of-the-time telefantasy shows which - with one exception - have been all but forgotten about today. Plus STAR TREK of course. <div>
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SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com111tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-67110317635707853842017-08-16T07:31:00.002+01:002017-08-16T07:31:41.426+01:001978: COMIC MEDIA NEWS ISSUE 36From June/ July 1978: COMIC MEDIA NEWS issue 36. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-12374346028620459442017-08-15T08:23:00.001+01:002017-08-15T08:23:21.388+01:001988: POWER COMICS ISSUE 1 BY BOLLAND AND GIBBONSFrom March 1988: POWER COMICS issue 1, another title (see also: the recent JAMES BOND post) that emerged from the tie-up between Britain's Acme Press and Eclipse over in the States.<br />
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This one was a genuine oddity: reprints of early work by Dave Gibbons and Brian Bolland originally created in the 1970s for export... to Nigeria! The principle character was - originally - Powerman but the lawyers spotted a potential snag with that so he was renamed Powerbolt for these reprints. <br />
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The strips, written by Don Avenall and Norman Worker, first appeared in the bi-weekly POWERMAN comic published by Pikin (or was it Pican?) Publications. <br />
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I have no idea about how Bolland and Gibbons felt about their early work resurfacing after they had broken through to the mainstream. <br />
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I wonder how well they managed to capture Nigerian life and sensibilities... I can't help suspecting that this is the Nigerian comics equivilant of our very own Gen 1 CAPTAIN BRITAIN... an overseas creation pitched at a foreign market put together by creators with little or no first-hand audience about the place or the audience. <br />
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They got the gig because, traditionally, Nigerian comics had been imported from overseas and the publisher saw an opportunity to create something more atuned to the local market and - importantly - featuring local characters. But - and this is where the Brits come in - there wasn't a big pool of local talent to work on such a title. The thinking was that - over time - a new generation of African creators would see an opportunity. <br />
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This four-part series has itself been out-of-print for nigh on thirty years.<br />
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It's not related to the 1960s Odhams Power Comics line which - mostly - repackaged early Marvel strips for the British market. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-2645496983938604282017-08-15T07:57:00.001+01:002017-08-15T07:57:12.526+01:001986: SPEAKEASY ISSUE 60From March 1986: SPEAKEASY issue 60 cover features METALZOIC, the Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neil collaboration which first appeared as one of the early DC Comics graphic novels in the States before being serialised in 2000AD (progs 482-492) here in the UK.<br />
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The timing is right as I'm currently reading Mills' recolections of his time on 2000AD in the book BE PURE! BE VIGILANT! BEHAVE! which is now available as a print edition. I find Mills to be rather too opinionated at times (he certainly has a lot to say in FUTURE SHOCK, now available in a swanky new BR edition from Arrow) but his writing here is most agreeable and it's hard to deny the creative force that he has been in British comics. Indeed, his contribution is almost certainly still undervalued in the grand scheme of things. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-45124830786630188772017-08-14T08:16:00.001+01:002017-08-14T08:16:12.008+01:001988: WILDCAT ISSUE 1From October 1988: the first issue of Fleetway's new fortnightly WILDCAT. <br />
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This is something of a landmark title: not only was it the first time (as far as I know) that IPC/ Fleetway had launched an anthology where all the strips shared the same universe but also the last time that they took a punt on a boys adventure title that wasn't either based on an existing media property or spun out of one of their existing titles. <br />
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It's ambitious stuff with a top-notch creative team (Boix, Belardinelli, Ortiz, Pino, Smith and others) and a remit to do something different at a time when the boys adventure market was really on its uppers (even Marvel UK was discovering that a heavily promoted toy tie-in were no longer pulling in the punters in sufficient numbers to keep the lights on at a number of weeklies) and only toy tie-ins seemed to have any chance of survival. <br />
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The shared universe premise was not a million miles away from Glen Larson's late 1960s unsold effort Adam's Ark (which was drastically reworked a decade later to become BATTLESTAR GALACTICA): Turbo Jones predicts the impending destruction of the Earth in a meteor shower and constructs a space craft (the Wildcat) to whisk a select group of survivors off world in search of a new planet to colonise. Cue: various alien-centric adventure built around the four main characters: Jones, Loner, Kitten Magee and Joe Alien. <br />
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The fortnightly was teased with the now traditional preview issue giveaway, bagged with copies of 2000AD, EAGLE and (presumably in an attempt to broaden the audience) WHIZZER AND CHIPS. Only twelve issues appeared before a hasty merger with - predictably - EAGLE (issue 368, 8 April 1989). Two further specials, now very hard to find, followed in 1989. Unusually, these probably weren't just burning off unused inventory as the strips were also appearing in EAGLE every week. <br />
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There was also two Stateside spin-offs courtesy of the often rough-and-ready Fleetway Quality imprint: the Loner strips were collected into a US format title that clocked-up a not-to-be-sniffed-at seven issues in 1990-91. Turbo Jones: Pathfinder mustered a one-shot in 1991. Neither title is particularly easy to find in the 50p boxes. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-12065765786006661242017-08-14T07:43:00.002+01:002017-08-14T07:43:59.546+01:00STAY TUNED: THE OFFICIALLY AUTHORISED AVENGERS MAGAZINE ISSUE 1From sometime in the 1980s: STAY TUNED, the officially authorised (TV) AVENGERS magazine (actually a fanzine) issue 1, published by ubiquitous Avengers go-to guy Dave Rogers. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-77326965290814759732017-08-14T07:31:00.001+01:002017-08-14T07:31:43.681+01:001975: COMIC MEDIA NEWS ISSUE 21From July/ August 1975: COMIC MEDIA NEWS issue 21. <br />
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This is the (mostly bad, by the sounds of it) news that British comics fandom was waking up to 42 years ago this month...<br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-64673711030363188532017-08-11T08:16:00.001+01:002017-08-11T08:16:22.433+01:00THE BEST CHILDREN'S TV OF THE DECADE VHS: THE 1980sLast but not least: Here's Philip Schofield again, providing the links for this third-and-final straight-to-tape compilation of old British kids TV clips. This time we're into Scofield's own era.... the 1980s.<br />
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This looks like it is a reissue as the packaging doesn't match the design of the previous two... or this tape was released after the others and - in the meantime - the line was overhauled and moved under the Pocket Money Video umbrella. <br />
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Kudos to the designer for making it look like something a kid could knock-up in under an hour. <br />
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Some of the shows featured actually had their origins in previous decades but I guess Watershed felt they could justify their inclusion here thanks to their periodic reruns by frugal broadcasters across the years. <br />
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These tapes, in their own simple way, were really the predecessors to Network's excellent range of LOOK-BACK DVDs. Like the ITC Video TV HEAVEN tapes of the past, they took complete episodes of assorted ITV kids shows to allow you a nostalgic dip without having to fork out for a complete series-specific DVD. They focused on the 1970s (some 1980s volumes wouldn't have gone amiss) but - even if you didn't see the shows first time around - are still great ways to dip into a whole era. The only bummer: kids TV drama was often multi-part rather than self-contained so you don't get the full story. Fortunately, Network has also released most of the dramas featured as individual series. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-26930824036055950932017-08-11T07:56:00.002+01:002017-08-11T07:56:21.310+01:00THE BEST CHILDREN'S TV OF THE DECADE VHS: THE 1970sFrom the Age of Tape: A post-Broom Closet/ pre-grey Schofield fronting-up a compilation of kids telly clips from the 1970s. <br />
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Like its predecessor, the producers of THE BEST CHILDREN'S TV OF THE 1970s did their research, plundering the archives of not just the BBC but also Thames, Southern, ITC and - possibly - some indies as well. Prior to YOU TUBE such clips could be gold dust, explaining the appeal of nostalgia-fuelled shows like I LOVE...<br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-74276726556383813902017-08-10T08:20:00.001+01:002017-08-10T08:20:20.011+01:001995: THERMAL LANCE ISSUE 24From May-June 1995: the 24th issue of THERMAL LANCE. <br />
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With a punter-pleasing X-FILES cover. Of course. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-20136417974300897232017-08-10T08:07:00.003+01:002017-08-11T07:57:37.438+01:00THE BEST CHILDREN'S TV OF THE DECADE VHS: THE 1960S<div style="font-family: sans-serif;">
From the VHS era: The first of three Schofield-fronted tapes, from a time long before YOU TUBE, with assorted clips from vintage shows from the 1960s. Predictably, two further decade-related tapes followed. And we'll get to those. </div>
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SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-58520745503567391962017-08-10T07:56:00.001+01:002017-08-10T07:56:26.764+01:001989: JAMES BOND 007 PERMISSION TO DIE ISSUE 1From 1989: the first issue, published in a swanky format, of Mike Grell's JAMES BOND 007 comics adaptation PERMISSION TO DIE. <br />
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This marked Mr Bond's return to comics after a hiatus of several years since the Roger Moore era Marvel movie adaptations. This, in contrast, was an original story (written and illustrated by Grell) and not directly based on any existing movie or Fleming novel. <br />
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A patchy publishing schedule meant the third issue didn't appear until 1991. That, and the collected edition that followed, seem pretty hard to find. Not that I have looked too hard. <br />
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Eclipse also published an adaptation of the movie LICENSE TO KILL, but i don't recall ever seeing a copy. <br />
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Co-publisher Acme Press was a spin-off from British fanzine SPEAKEASY. Other titles from the outfit included POWERMAN (not THAT one), reprinting rare mid-Seventies Gibbons/ Bolland strips created for export to the Nigerian market.and MAXWELL THE MAGIC CAT, collecting Alan Moore's gag strip from his local paper.<br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-28854324918168406222017-08-09T08:38:00.002+01:002017-08-09T08:38:49.238+01:001978: SUPERMAN POCKET BOOK (UK EDITION) ISSUE 1From 1978: the first issue of SUPERMAN POCKETBOOK, a UK DC reprint title from London Editions/ Egmont.<br />
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Unlike the traditional British Pocket Libraries, this (and its BATMAN POCKETBOOK companion) was published with colour interiors. The upgraded production standards were made possible because London Editions (who eventually had a long - albeit intermittent - association with DC) were part of a bigger European outfit, and the digests appeared in other European markets with the black plates swapped out in favour of the local language during a single print run.<br />
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The sudden pan-European interest in the character was, of course, down to that year's SUPERMAN live-action movie. <br />
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The UK-only monthly THE SUPERHEROES followed, to limited success despite boasting attractive new covers and some vintage (albeit possibly dated) reprints from the DC vaults.<br />
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Once that title faltered, London Editions turned their attentions to other licensed fare scoring hits with the likes of MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE and MY LITTLE PONY and less success with the likes of THE CENTURIONS and BATTLE BEASTS.<br />
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But, towards the end of the decade, they rediscovered their DC mojo with a slate of new reprint titles (now in colour) beginning with - as you might expect - SUPERMAN. This expansion may have been prompted by the rising profile of DC characters (Superman celebrated his 50th with some hoopla, including a RADIO TIMES cover, in 1988), the post-CRISIS reboot of many of DC's top tier characters (making them more accessable to a wider audience), the impending BATMAN movie and MARVEL UK's retreat from the superhero market.<br />
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The new line, anchored by SUPERMAN and BATMAN but also including (at various times) HEROES, DC ACTION, ZONES and SHOCKWAVE, proved to be only a limited success and titles seemed to come and go (departing with little warning or fanfare) on a regular basis.<br />
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Robert Maxwell, now owner of the former IPC Youth Group rebadged Fleetway, managed to annoy Egmont's European bosses by snatching the Disney license. His ownership of MIRROR GROUP newspapers being a decisive factor in commiting to expose Disney's wares to the largest UK readership possible. Egmont's response was to buy into Fleetway, an offer that Maxwell (no doubt very aware of the financial mess buried at the heart of his media empire) found hard to resist. After his death, and the swift collapse of his crooked empire, Egmont bought the rest of Fleetway for a knockdown price. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-6379156760890664422017-08-09T08:11:00.001+01:002017-08-09T08:11:49.213+01:001987: SENTINEL ISSUE 1, FROM HARRIER COMICSFrom February 1987: the first issue of SENTINEL, a science fiction title published by Brit outfit HARRIER COMICS, owned and run by Martin Lock. <br />
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The conceit for this four-issue British indie title was that it presented news stories from the future. It was one of the standouts from a publisher who often seemed to prioritise quantity and good intentions over actual quality. <br />
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Born of the black & white boom, Harrier launched with CONQUEROR, a STAR TREK wannabe with origins in Lock's days as a fanzine creator, editor and publisher. I've blogged about that in STARLOGGED a long time ago. A host of ongoing series and one-shots followed over the next few years. Some boasted early work by creators who would go on to become well-regarded industry pros. Others were a load of old tosh that almost certainly harmed the credability of the whole line. <br />
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The collapse in demand for b&w titles (once it became clear that the dreck far outweighed the quality... and the chances of getting rich over the next TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES wwas basically zilch) sealed the fate of Harrier and Lock bowed out by the end of the decade. <br />
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Back issues sometimes pop up in the 50p boxes and I always make a point of grabbing any that I see. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-90658025657445120042017-08-09T07:50:00.001+01:002017-08-09T07:50:15.928+01:001988: THE SECOND OINK! BOOK (1989)From 1988: THE OINK! BOOK 1989.<br />
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Yup, it's a spin-off OINK! ANNUAL from Fleetway, unusually for the time (although it would become standard for 2000AD and JUDGE DREDD in the following decade) published as an oversized stiff-covered softie rather than the more traditional hardback.<br />
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This would have been on sale just as the comic, launched in 1986, was winding down. The last issue - number 68 - was published in October prior to a 'great news pals' merger with BUSTER. <br />
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The first OINK! BOOK had appeared the previous year but seemed to suffer from patchy distribution, not least because WH SMITH (who, back in the day, would devote large tables or extensive shelf space to annuals) apparently tried as hard as possible not to stock it. <br />
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A further SUMMER SPECIAL, reprinting material from the comic, went on sale the following summer. <br />
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Someone even made an OINK! computer game! Pigging brilliant!<br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-82018384882544749772017-08-08T08:21:00.001+01:002017-08-10T08:24:18.089+01:001995: DOWNTIME STRAIGHT-TO-TAPE DOCTOR WHO DRAMA VHS, SIGNED BY THE CAST. From 1995: The recent death of Deborah Watling reminded me of this... DOWNTIME: a straight-to-tape (via a convention) DOCTOR WHO fan film which reunited some of the show's cast (reprising their characters from the show in a copyright-dodging manauver made possible by the BBC's bonkers contracts) to take on the Yeti. <br />
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It's OK... and it is good to see so many of the cast in the same production... but it ain't great! A lot of these 1990s fan-made films just demonstrated that making decent TV drama is harder than it looks (despite having some pros in front - and behind - the camera). <br />
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Reeltime, stepping outside their comfort zone of walk-and-talk interviews, were canny enough to make this look like a legit BBC Video release by apping the sleave design as much as possible. This comes with a bonus... it is signed by all the principle players. Most of whom are sadly no longer with us. <br />
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There was also a novelisation published by Virgin as part of their DOCTOR WHO MISSING ADVENTURES line (in fact, in keeping with its unofficial origins, the Doctor is all but missing from his own Missing Adventure) and a soundtrack CD. <br />
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I'm pretty sure I would have bought this VHS from FORBIDDEN PLANET on New Oxford Street when it was first released. I don't remember if copies were sold more widely than the specialist market. <br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>UPDATE: </b></span>Whilst hunting through a stack of DVDs last night I discovered I have a copy of this! I'd forgotten i had bought a copy. The reissue comes with a 'making of' which might prove to be more interesting than the main attraction...<br />
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<span id="goog_1019163751"></span><span id="goog_1019163752"></span><br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-47701108459689624112017-08-08T07:58:00.001+01:002017-08-08T07:58:23.607+01:001995: THERMAL LANCE ISSUE 23 REVIEWS THE STATE OF THE STAR TREK NATIONFrom March-April 1995: More STAR TREK.... THERMAL LANCE issue 23 casts a critical eye over the whole franchise to coincide with the release of the (frankly underwhelming) STAR TREK GENERATIONS movie. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-89508620550189888852017-08-08T07:49:00.001+01:002017-08-08T07:49:04.686+01:001992: STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION UK COMIC ISSUE 1From November 1992: More TREKness... the first issue of the second (even less successful) crack at getting a STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION comic off the ground here in the UK. This only seems to have run for a couple of issues.<br />
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MARVEL UK had the first go but misread the market by beaming out a quick-to-assemble comic full of material that fans could already find imported in their local comic shop. Buyers hoping for a TREK centric version of DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE had to wait another half-decade until Titan Magazines nailed it. The Marvel version died after only a year or so.<br />
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This incarnation, an all-reprint companion to the Classic Trek version, fared even worse. Vanishing after only a couple of issues. Clearly the casual and commited fans who were watching the series on BBC TWO and SKY ONE (and buying the CIC vids) weren't rushing to read reprints of the American comics. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-91544132193620768302017-08-07T08:28:00.002+01:002017-08-07T08:28:41.023+01:001997: US TV REVIEW ISSUE 13From Spring 1997: a copy of the British fanzine US TV REVIEW, dedicated to contemporary American TV shows.<br />
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This was actually an amalgamation of several existing fanzines dedicated to BABYLON FIVE (BABCOM: Not to be confused with the UK BABYLON FIVE club magazine I have posted previously) and LOIS & CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (The Daily Planet). The combined title expanded the remit even further to cover other imports. <br />
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I'm not sure where the issue number comes from... it may have been inherited from one of the merged titles or there may also have been a US TV newsletter (not to be confused with AMERICANA) that was running alongside the two show-specific zines. The memory now cheats. <br />
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I'm pretty sure I was a regular reader of the titles prior to their merger but - over the years - I have misplaced or dumped all my copies. For some reason, this one survives. <br />
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I forget exactly how these were advertised. Definately mail order but I don't recall if it was on an issue-by-issue basis or via a subscription. The adverts probably appeared in the classified sections of SFX or TV ZONE. <br />
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i have a suspicion that this one might not have lasted much longer... or maybe I just stopped ordering it. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-35244149680106496502017-08-07T08:07:00.001+01:002017-08-07T08:07:25.407+01:001992: THE BRITISH STAR TREK COMICFrom March 1992: the first issue of the long forgotten British STAR TREK comic.<br />
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This came from Phoenix/ Trident, the outfit that briefly looked like they were going to become a MARVEL UK style reprint house (albeit without much in the way of personality) with a raft of media tie-in titles including ALIENS, THE TERMINATOR, INDIANA JONES and even FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES. They didn't last very long... possibly because their product wasn't great... and possibly because Dark Horse reclaimed their titles in order to launch Dark Horse International. <br />
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This one offered-up a bunch of movie era Trek reprints from the DC vaults. From memory, the pages looked like they may well have been copied from copies of the original US books rather than from the original art or the film created for printing. <br />
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The title ran for at least 8 regular issues. The same company also launched FINAL FRONTIER, the shady Trek magazine that didn't even bother with a license. <br />
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There was also, briefly, a STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION comic (which I'll get to) that plugged the gap between the end of the Marvel UK run and the launch of the (still running) Titan Magazine. The latter, because it had limited distribution outside the UK, was also initally able to run DC reprints. <br />
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<br />SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-1003054219543933372017-08-07T07:35:00.002+01:002017-08-07T07:35:58.517+01:001990: STARLOG'S ACTION HEROES MAGAZINE ISSUE 2From 1990, the 'that'll do' cover for ACTION HEROES magazine issue 2, another in the numerous spin-offs from the Starlog Group. <br />
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