Those comics are late 40’s, early 50’s, spot on @Barbel 🍸
Bond stuff…
It was a major television event when DN had its first showing on British TV. Cinemas were very angry that Eon sold out rights to ITV as the Bond double bills were still performing to “sold out” audiences. The first three Bonds were shown within 12 months and these were the covers of the TV TIMES highlighting the event. A Tuesday night was an odd choice in my opinion, I’d have thought a weekend showing would have been far more beneficial. They corrected it with FRWL on a Sunday night but went back to midweek for GF.
Rubber bands seems an odd product for Bond to promote…
The widescreen TB montage in all its glory…
Bond paperback covers…
Those Penguin covers are really good.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
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Absolutely stunning artwork 🍸 I have the reprint that was done some years ago of this…
It was the Matchbox Superfast cars I was crazy about. Went nuts trying to collect the whole range, but they kept on introducing new models. Corgi as well to an extent, ⅞but not Dinky oddly enough.
I love the attempt to make Ovaltine appeal to kids.
Cinemas used to display photographs of movies that were being screened as an added piece of advertising to compliment the posters. In the UK these were called F-O-H Stills and in the US they were called Lobby Cards.
Here are some vintage examples…
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Those Bond TVTimes covers were great! Of course, back then you had to get both the Radio Times and the TVTimes to get all - three - THREE! channels. I don't know what year they merged so each could cover all listings.
I don't get the whole cinema double bill thing - as a Bond-crazy kid I never saw such a thing locally aside from a Moonraker/FYEO double bill in around 1983 at Sutton.
Live And Let Die would have cleaned up at the cinema had it been re-released in, say, 1978 as for many kids it would have been a brand new movie. That's why it got massive viewing figures on telly when it premiered, around 27m. A cash bonanza was there for the taking.
KID GALAHAD is one of the King's better movies IMO, aided no doubt by Mr Bronson. If they cut the bloody songs out, it would have made a half decent boxing drama. Bloody Colonel. Not seen it in a while. May be worth a look if I can find it online.
What the hell is KONGA ? A female Kong rampaging in London? Looks hilarious.
Love SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER. Not as engaging as Seventh Voyage or Golden Voyage, but excellent effects, splendid photography, Jane Seymour and Taryn Power - oh and a prince transformed into a baboon and fussing over a diet of dates. What's not to love?
KONGA is one of those so bad it's good movies, you'll either love it or hate it. Mad scientist Michael Gough turns a chimp into a huge King Kong style gorilla. Oh, and I'm pretty sure it's a boy although it's been a long time so I could be wrong there.
And I'm also pretty sure KID GALAHAD is a remake and the original didn't have songs so try that. I agree it's one of his better movies and the songs haven't yet reached the shock and awe awfulness that lay ahead.
The original KID GALAHAD featured Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson as rival ring managers. Bogart, as he often was cast in the thirties, is the villain. Wayne Morris played the boxer. It was remade with a circus setting and called THE WAGONS ROLL AT NIGHT, this time with Bogart in the hero role. As I understand it, this film is closer to the original novel Kid Galahad than either boxing film.
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Those FOH still are fabulous…I’ve got quite a few Bond ones knocking around, unfortunately they are later movies though…
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For some reason I don't like the 3rd pic. I suppose it's because that's a real life situation while the others are more fantasy.
The imagery is really good in some of those…
More of those vintage advertisements…
Legend has it that certain housewives offering services for pin money would place a packet of OMO in their front window indicating Old Man Out!
King Dick Ltd was established in the 1950’s and is still operating today.
Uranium prospecting in your own backyard! How could they resist!
I wouldn't have been able to resist the Space-O-Phone when I was a kid.
Comic Book Covers…
Nice mixed bag. Jeckyl & Hyde, not a coincidence 😉? Good cover for it.
The 1st 3 look very wartime to me, or at least mags that started then.
Once is coincidence 😁
Those comics are late 40’s, early 50’s, spot on @Barbel 🍸
Bond stuff…
It was a major television event when DN had its first showing on British TV. Cinemas were very angry that Eon sold out rights to ITV as the Bond double bills were still performing to “sold out” audiences. The first three Bonds were shown within 12 months and these were the covers of the TV TIMES highlighting the event. A Tuesday night was an odd choice in my opinion, I’d have thought a weekend showing would have been far more beneficial. They corrected it with FRWL on a Sunday night but went back to midweek for GF.
Rubber bands seems an odd product for Bond to promote…
The widescreen TB montage in all its glory…
Bond paperback covers…
Those Penguin covers are really good.
Absolutely stunning artwork 🍸 I have the reprint that was done some years ago of this…
Have all those too 😁
They're among the best Bond paperback covers. A friend gave me them in a boxed set.
Bond on TV was a big thing at the time. As you say they were still being shown regularly at cinemas usually in double bills.
Inside Pages…
Crazy titles, crazy stories. "UFO" might be the one I'd read.
Devil Snakes Die Hard could be made into a movie starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson...
They certainly are mad titles 😁
I can just hear him now:
"I have had it with these mf devil snakes on this mf plane!"
I was hoping someone was going to comment on this one - you didn’t let me down @chrisno1 😁
Advertisements placed in British comics…
I remember those ‘moving picture’ cards…and I ate plenty of the Booster ice lolly rockets 😋
It was the Matchbox Superfast cars I was crazy about. Went nuts trying to collect the whole range, but they kept on introducing new models. Corgi as well to an extent, ⅞but not Dinky oddly enough.
I love the attempt to make Ovaltine appeal to kids.
Some more adverts but not from comics…
Eleganza 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love vintage car ads, and that IBM computer one looks like from another planet now.
That Elegenza ad has clothes like a low budget sci-fi movie from the seventies!
Cinemas used to display photographs of movies that were being screened as an added piece of advertising to compliment the posters. In the UK these were called F-O-H Stills and in the US they were called Lobby Cards.
Here are some vintage examples…
Those Bond TVTimes covers were great! Of course, back then you had to get both the Radio Times and the TVTimes to get all - three - THREE! channels. I don't know what year they merged so each could cover all listings.
I don't get the whole cinema double bill thing - as a Bond-crazy kid I never saw such a thing locally aside from a Moonraker/FYEO double bill in around 1983 at Sutton.
Live And Let Die would have cleaned up at the cinema had it been re-released in, say, 1978 as for many kids it would have been a brand new movie. That's why it got massive viewing figures on telly when it premiered, around 27m. A cash bonanza was there for the taking.
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Those Front Of House stills bring back memories. The one I've not seen is the 2nd last, I never cared for those movies.
Spot a youngish Charles Bronson with Elvis.
KID GALAHAD is one of the King's better movies IMO, aided no doubt by Mr Bronson. If they cut the bloody songs out, it would have made a half decent boxing drama. Bloody Colonel. Not seen it in a while. May be worth a look if I can find it online.
What the hell is KONGA ? A female Kong rampaging in London? Looks hilarious.
Love SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER. Not as engaging as Seventh Voyage or Golden Voyage, but excellent effects, splendid photography, Jane Seymour and Taryn Power - oh and a prince transformed into a baboon and fussing over a diet of dates. What's not to love?
KONGA is one of those so bad it's good movies, you'll either love it or hate it. Mad scientist Michael Gough turns a chimp into a huge King Kong style gorilla. Oh, and I'm pretty sure it's a boy although it's been a long time so I could be wrong there.
And I'm also pretty sure KID GALAHAD is a remake and the original didn't have songs so try that. I agree it's one of his better movies and the songs haven't yet reached the shock and awe awfulness that lay ahead.
KONGA is definitely male and it’s one hell of a movie if you like shlock (as I do).
Was Charles Bronson ever young? 😂 He was 39 in The Magnificent Seven in 1960 and Death Wish was 14 years later!
I’ve got Kid Galahad on my streaming service, I might give it a go.
The original KID GALAHAD featured Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson as rival ring managers. Bogart, as he often was cast in the thirties, is the villain. Wayne Morris played the boxer. It was remade with a circus setting and called THE WAGONS ROLL AT NIGHT, this time with Bogart in the hero role. As I understand it, this film is closer to the original novel Kid Galahad than either boxing film.
Those FOH still are fabulous…I’ve got quite a few Bond ones knocking around, unfortunately they are later movies though…
Highly sought after, I understand...
Roger Moore 1927-2017